Trading Tech
Nanospeed Readies FPGAs for Asia, Europe
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed, which this week launched its Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for US equities and options markets, is now developing support for a number of additional Asian and European markets in response to…
NYSE Euronext and ICE Postpone Merger Closing Date
NYSE Euronext and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) have delayed the closing date of the $8.2 billion merger transaction, as the deal is still pending European regulatory approvals.
Symphony Technology Group Live on iLevel
The Palo Alto-based $2.0 billion specialist private equity firm, known as STG, invests in midsize enterprise software and services companies, and is set to use iLevel's private capital data platform.
Bank of Singapore Takes Ullink's OMS and Connectivity
Bank of Singapore has selected Ullink’s connectivity and order management systems.
Analytics Poised to Lead Future Financial Services Change
While analytics tools are pervasive in retail financial services, their growth in capital markets is being driven by a number of factors. With a range technologies now at the disposal of both buy-side and sell-side firms, how will their use evolve? This…
Filling the Void: Buy Side Steps into Shadow Banking
As banks back out of the direct lending sector due to capital constraints, buy-side firms are filling the void. While that has provoked growing concerns from regulators, the returns have been solid for hedge funds in particular, but it has also required…
Anthony Malakian: BST North America: Of Data and People
This year’s Buy-Side North American Summit served up valuable insight into the areas of data management, risk management and the ongoing importance of getting the business on board with IT initiatives.
Nanotick Launches Historical On-Demand CME Data Service
Nanotick, a joint venture between direct market access software provider Onix Solutions and proximity hosting and market data provider VDIware, has launched an on-demand service that provides historical market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
Deutsche Börse Preps for HFT Regulation
Deutsche Börse has released version 14.0 of its electronic trading system, Xetra.
Maxim Implements SunGard Amid Growing Broker Trend
Maxim Group, an 11-year-old specialist brokerage, has added to its arsenal of SunGard products by implementing the provider's VPM portfolio accounting solution. The move is a result of of heightened transparency demands, but also a sign of Maxim filling…
Tablets on the Trading Floor
We are witnessing a true revolution in how financial services firms do their work. More than two decades after the arrival of PCs, the internet, and electronic trading tools, financial services professionals are looking to be truly mobile.
Deutsche Börse Names Information Mosaic's Keller CIO
German exchange group Deutsche Börse has appointed René Keller group chief information officer for the exchange's IT and Market Data and Services division, and group-wide head of applications and infrastructure, effective Feb. 1, 2014.
Sunstate Bank Taps SS&C for Fixed Income Trading
Sunstate Bank, which is headquartered in Miami and has $164 million of total assets, is extending its partnership with SS&C Technologies to support fixed income trading.
HKEx Data Goes Live on NYSE SuperFeed
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is making consolidated market data from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's new Orion Market Data platform-which utilizes underlying technology from NYSE Technologies-via NYSE Technologies'…
'Human Error' Blamed for Nasdaq Index Outage
Human error forced Nasdaq OMX to halt trading for a number of derivatives contracts linked to its Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) earlier today, Tuesday Oct. 29, after the exchange's Global Index Data Service (GIDS 2.0) failed to disseminate values for about 45…
Eze Castle Integration Updates Disaster Recovery Service
Exactly one year after Hurricane Sandy's crash into the US Atlantic coastline, the managed services provider to hedge funds says its disaster recovery (DR) offering has been upgraded.
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.