Trading Tech
Max Bowie: Fifty Shades of Grey Areas on Exchange Data Contracts
Exchanges have long bonded clients to strict contracts to monitor usage of their market data. But with few standards around these contracts, Max says these bonds are increasingly becoming devices of torture that not even the Marquis de Sade would enjoy.
BT Nabs MarketPrizm CEO Randery
Network and telecoms provider BT has appointed Tanuja Randery president of strategy and marketing at BT Global Services, responsible for driving the growth of the division.
Options, Redline Expand Partnership
Cloud provider Options has expanded its partnership with market data provider Redline Trading Solutions to offer a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities trading.
Options, Redline Ally For Managed Ticker Plant Service
Hosted infrastructure and private cloud provider Options (formerly Options IT), has expanded its partnership with low-latency market data provider Redline Trading Solutions to provide customers with a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities…
NanoSpeed Launches High-Performance FPGA Trading Gateway
London-based hardware provider NanoSpeed has launched an ultra-low latency trading gateway, dubbed Nano-TG, targeted at investment banks, prop traders, hedge funds, exchanges and other financial institutions.
SocGen Transfers Securities Operations to Accenture Post-Trade Processing Platform
Accenture has announced that Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) has begun the transfer of its securities processing back-office operations to the Accenture Post-Trade Processing system, a service launched by Accenture and…
HFN Completes Network Upgrade, Touts Performance Improvements
Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network has completed a major upgrade to its fiber network in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, enabling the vendor to improve the performance on all its routes between the region's major financial…
NanoSpeed Launches FPGA-Enabled Gateway
The customizable Nano-TG trading gateway will build off the London-based hardware provider's earlier field programmable gate array (FPGA) expertise.
Open Platform: Compliance Challenges for Communications
The ways in which we all communicate have changed. The fixed-line telephone call is almost a thing of the past, with mobile and electronic communication having seen to that. Regulators have recognized this, and have told firms that they need to be…
Oslo Børs Readies T+2 for 2014
Oslo Børs VPS has announced that it will move settlement to a T+2 basis, or two days after trade, in line with regulation and investor requests, effective from October 6, 2014.
Brazil's CGD Securities Taps Valdi for Market Access
CGD Securities, a Brazilian division of Portugese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos, has selected SunGard’s hosted Valdi solution for access to the BM&FBovespa financial markets.
TR Adds ‘Chat to Email’ to Messenger
Thomson Reuters has added a new feature, dubbed Chat to Email, to its Eikon Messenger messaging tool, to enable users to send instant chat messages to the email addresses of non-Eikon Messenger users.
KUDOS* to the Humble Spreadsheet (*KUDOS = Known and Unknown Dependency of Spreadsheets)
Firms don’t often think of spreadsheets as big contributors to their data budget. But they’d be mistaken. And not only can these be drains on data resources; they can also present tricky problems when updating them to ensure they are properly consuming…
CQG Readies QTrader Entry-Level Data-Trading Workstation
Denver, Colorado-based data, charting and trading technology provider CQG is preparing to unveil a new, low-cost data and trading terminal, dubbed QTrader, aimed at semi-professional futures traders and the futures commission merchants that serve them.
Northern Trust Creates iPad App for Institutional Clients
Chicago-based Northern Trust has unveiled a new Apple iPad application that will give institutional clients access to performance, exposure and risk information.
NetDania Preps Trading-Data FX Workstation
Danish foreign exchange data display and technology provider NetDania is preparing to roll out a trading-enabled version of its NetStation data and analytics workstation, which will allow retail brokerage firms to white-label the platform as a trading…
Thomson Reuters Debuts Compliance Tool for Employee Supervision
Thomson Reuters has launched Accelus Conflicts Compliance, a web-based solution for streamlining employee supervision and code-of-conduct management, in partnership compliance specialist TerraNua.
Moscow Exchange Outlines Data IT Roadmap
The Moscow Exchange is changing the way it distributes market data as part of an ongoing technology consolidation that began in 2011, following the government-ordered merger of the RTS and Micex exchanges into a single national venue.
Petercam Selects Orfival for Performance
Brussels-headquartered asset manager Petercam has selected Orfival's GPMS product for its performance measurement and client reporting functions.
Pulling Weeds: Sell Side Confronts Technology Stack Upgrades
Despite the current era in the capital markets as one of tight budgets, firms across the sell side are waking up to the fact that radical changes are needed to their technology stacks. From banks, to brokers and exchanges, questions remain around how…
Macrobond Adds Matlab API, Histograms, Readies New York Office
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial is launching a new version of its Macrobond Application data workstation, which features connectivity to the The Mathworks' Matlab data analysis development environment and enhanced…
Macrobond Bolsters EMEA Sales Team
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial has promoted Jacob Johannesson to head of sales in EMEA. Johannesson held his previous role as product specialist and international account manager for over three years, prior to which he…
Cooperative Bank of Kenya Finishes Misys BankFusion Implementation
The country's third largest bank says the new platform will help with its expansion in South Sudan, future planned forays into Rwanada and Uganda, and its growing Kingdom brokerage arm by which clients can access Nairobi's stock exchange.
Sandell AM Taps SS&C GlobeOp for Fund Admin, Form PF/Fatca Compliance
Sandell Asset Management, which manages $750 million, has selected SS&C GlobeOp to provide fund administration services.