Trading Tech
FIX Post-Trade Group to Tackle Fixed Income, Equity Options
The industry standards body known as FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) rebranded itself as the FIX Trading Community (FTC) in August, but its mission remains the same. So too the Global Post-Trade working group within the FTC, which underwent a change last week.
IDC Automates Vantage Workflow
Interactive Data has enhanced the workflow module of its web-based Vantage application for viewing the data behind evaluated prices, such as anonymous trades, quotes, dealer runs and market posts, to include automated routines and price tests to enable…
Chi-X Canada on IPC's Connexus
Members on the connectivity provider's Connexus Extranet service can now access Chi-X Canada's automated trading system, as well as its recently-launched CX2 platform for small to mid-tier brokers and retail investors.
NYSE Euronext Taps ITRS Geneos for Performance Monitoring
NYSE Euronext is using ITRS Geneos to monitor its US cash equities trading infrastructure.
Turquoise Derivatives Arm Relaunched Under New LSEG Colors
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) today announced it has acquired the derivatives business of Turquoise, the London-based multilateral trading facility.
AIMCo Turns to SimCorp for Investment Management
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) has gone live with SimCorp Dimension for automation of investment workflow.
Linedata Launches New I-BOR Solution
Paris-based buy-side vendor Linedata has launch I-BOR, an Investment Book of Records (IBOR) solution, to answer the increasing demand from its client base to establish an independent and granular view of their investment positions.
All About the Uses, Less About the User?
Often, discussion of financial technology focuses on what it can be used for, rather than who can actually use it.
EACH Names Plata Secretary General
The European Association of Central Counterparties (CCPs) Clearing Houses (EACH) has appointed Rafael Plata as its first secretary general.
Marco Polo, Perseus Paired in Emerging Markets DMA Push
Marco Polo New World, a consolidated offering from the jointly-owned direct market access (DMA) and connectivity providers, looks to answer demand for broader access in untapped markets.
Thomson Reuters, ICAP Gain Temporary SEF Approval
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has granted Thomson Reuters and ICAP temporary registration to operate swap execution facilities (SEFs).
NYSE Taps ITRS for Performance Monitoring UPDATED
NYSE Euronext has completed the first phase of a multi-phase project to deploy UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS’ Geneos monitoring platform across its US equities and options exchange environment to gain an end-to-end view of…
Deutsche Börse Bows Historical Data Cloud
German exchange Deutsche Börse will this week launch a cloud-based historical data service, Data on Demand, to provide analysts, application developers and vendors with on-demand access to historical data from its Xetra and Eurex securities and…
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
CJC Taps Beebeejaun as Sales Head
Market data consultancy and real-time systems support and management provider CJC has hired Feroze Beebeejaun as head of sales, responsible for generating new business for CJC's outsourced support operations and for its commercial management business…
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
New Regulations Will Drive Data Costs Higher, Panel Warns
The growing raft of new regulations are increasing the market data burden on all market participants for risk analysis and for meeting reporting requirements, while also increasing the cost of connecting to and aggregating new datasets, said panelists at…
Hedgebay Launches Electronic Settlement for Secondaries
The Nassau-based platform for trading in hedge fund secondaries and related products has added the new settlement service to speed up transactions, reducing overall trading time by 20 percent.
Apama to Provide Third-Party Aggregation for EBS Direct
EBS, ICAP’s electronic foreign exchange (FX) business, has selected Apama Software AG’s platform to deliver third-party aggregation to EBS Direct, a new liquidity service with direct streaming of tailored prices.
MarketAxess SEF Online with Traiana's CreditLink
MarketAxess says it has completed the first live trade through its swap execution facility (SEF), using risk checks provided by Traiana's CreditLink hub.
CFTC Approves Tullett Prebon’s SEF Status
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has granted interdealer broker Tullett Prebon temporary registration to operate as a swap execution facility (SEF).
TMX Lights 10Gb Amsterdam-Frankfurt Network
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has increased the bandwidth of its network between Amsterdam and Frankfurt to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to meet demand from proprietary trading firms in the Netherlands for higher…
Northern Trust's Guenther On the Challenges of Risk Management at Inside Market Data Chicago 2013
Joerg Guenther, head of information technology at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services discusses his presentation at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago conference, on the challenges faced by his organization as it embarked on a project to centralize…