Trading Tech
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.
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.