Trading Tech
Evanston Capital Management Jumps Into Gravitas Cloud
Evanston Capital Management (ECM), an Illinois-based fund of funds, has migrated its core servers and applications to the Gravitas Private Cloud, a project completed in less than six months.
Nice Actimize Partners Ullink for Trade Data
Nice Actimize has announced a partnership with Ullink, whereby data from the latter's global routing network will be used to inform market surveillance practices for the vendor's customers.
Squawker Completes European Launch
Pan-European venue Squawker has announced that its initial roll-out across Europe has been completed, with over 70 sell-side firms signed on to the service.
BST North American Summit 2013: Catching Up with Fortress Investment Group's Hylton Socher
Jake Thomases speaks with Hylton Socher, CTO at Fortress Investment Group, who gave the keynote address at Buy-Side Technology's 2013 North American Summit.
BST North American Summit 2013: Bradley Ziff of Misys on Emerging Buy-Side Risk Drivers
Misys's senior risk advisor Bradley Ziff talks with Waters about emerging macroeconomic and regulatory risks affecting the buy side.
BST North American Summit 2013: StatPro CEO Justin Wheatley Talks Cloud-based Analytics
Justin Wheatley, StatPro's chief executive, talks portfolio analytics and their importance in broader buy-side data management.
BST North American Summit 2013: Talking IBOR with SimCorp's David Kubersky
Waters chats with SimCorp managing director David Kubersky about the relative merits of the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) concept sweeping the buy side.
Wells Fargo Connects to Eris Exchange's SwapBook
The bank will serve as both a liquidity provider and futures commission merchant (FCM) for Chicago-based Eris Exchange, the swaps execution facility specializing in interest rate swaps and offering a proprietary swaps future product.
Caceis Debuts Collateral Management Offering
Asset servicing provider Caceis has released its foray into the collateral management market with Collateral Express.
BST North American Summit 2013: AIG's Mary Kotch on Smaller Footprints, Better Talent
The CTO for AIG IT Americas, who has been leading the firm's tech reorganization and data center consolidation efforts, has seen everything from a new cyber war games initiative to an unexpected presence-via an acquisition-in Amazon's public cloud. Still…
Redline Expands Japan Data Support
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and execution gateway provider Redline Trading Solutions has added support for Japanese equity markets to its InRush 3 Ticker Plant.
EE Partners Etrali for FCA Recording Compliance
British telco Everything Everywhere (EE) has announced a partnership with Etrali Trading Solutions to provide voice recording for clients in the City of London, as part of its wider push into the UK financial heartland.
Chewing the Fat
Financial technology can prove to be a bit of a mouthful.
Exchanges, Banks Tap Corvil Monitoring
NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX and Credit Suisse are deploying a new real-time risk and compliance monitoring service from Dublin-based latency monitoring software provider Corvil that will provide continuous compliance monitoring of companies’ electronic…
Markit's Chidsey on Plans for Corp Actions Validation Service at WFIC 2013
Ed Chidsey, managing director, global co-head of data services, at Markit explains that the data and services vendor is rebuilding the platform of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service it acquired in June, at the World Financial Information…
CQG Adds Charts, Preps Mobile App
Denver, Colo-based data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is adding a new range of chart studies to its Integrated Client front-end display, in response to client demand, is leveraging multi-threaded technology to boost the platform’s performance…
BST North American Summit 2013: Liability-Driven Investment Gaining Mainstream Tech Traction
The past decade and post-financial crisis turmoil exposed the need for better asset liability management (ALM) among certain institutional buy-side firms such as private pension plans. Maan Bsat senior business lead at Misys, who spoke at the Buy-Side…
Acadian AM Implements BI-SAM’s B-One platform
Acadian Asset Management, a global asset manager specializing in active global and international equity strategies with $55 billion under management as of June 2013, has rolled out the BI-SAM’s B-One platform to support its performance measurement,…
Industry Welcomes Markit Chat, Says More Participants Needed
Markit Collaboration Services, the new open messaging network initiative that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across any communication platform, garnered a positive response from attendees at FISD's World Financial…
Panel: Robust Data Management Required for Big Data
Big Data may not be living up to its hype among large asset managers, who seem unwilling to explore its use for more esoteric and less established analysis techniques, according to a panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in New York on…
Central Clearing Blurs the Line Between Front and Back Office
The biggest impact that the new centrally-cleared derivatives regime is having on buy-side infrastructure is an organizational one, said Michael O’Brien, director of global trading at Eaton Vance, at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit.
ICE to Close NYSE Acquisition on Nov. 4
NYSE Euronext announced today that its acquisition by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) will close on Nov. 4.
SmartStream's Twiggs on SmartRecs
Darryl Twiggs, head of product at SmartStream Technologies, talks to Waters about the vendor's recent release, SmartRecs.
SmartStream's Twiggs Discusses Reconciliations Challenges
Darryl Twiggs, head of product at SmartStream Technologies, talks to Waters about the ways in which new technology is changing the role of reconciliations.