Trading Tech
Poles Apart? Tech Push Boosts Poland's Prominence
Capital markets in Central Europe—and especially Poland—have made steady gains after being unlocked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, with new technology helping to both catalyze reform and create jobs. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports from Warsaw on the…
ConvergEx to Provide Real-Time Transaction Cost Analysis
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has announced it will soon be providing real-time intra-day transaction cost analysis (TCA) to its prime services customers through its TCA product, PerformEx.
Numerix Launches Risk Scenario Framework
Analytics and risk management provider Numerix has released a new scripting language for "defining bespoke risk scenarios, stress tests and greeks."
StatPro Adds New Module to its StatPro Revolution Platform
StatPro Group, a portfolio analytics provider, has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to its portfolio analysis and reporting platform, StatPro Revolution, to aid compliance with UCITS regulations.
Nasdaq OMX Unveils Pre-Trade Risk Management Service for Commodities
Nasdaq OMX has rollout out a new pre-trade risk management service geared toward the commodities market, dubbed Genium INET PRM.
Numerix, TMX Group Team on Risk Solution
Numerix is partnering with TMX Technology Solutions, the tech arm of TMX Group, where TMX's Razor Risk enterprise risk management product will leverage Numerix's library of risk and pricing models from its solutions for credit risk, market risk and…
Polish Player BRE Securities Turns to SunGard for Connectivity
Dom Inwestycyjny BRE Banku SA (BRE Securities), the broker arm of Polish BRE Bank Group, part of the Commerzbank financial services group, has selected SunGard's Valdi solution, together with the SunGard Global Network (SGN), the company's international…
Goldman to Offer TT Hosting to Futures Clients
Goldman Sachs has added TTNet, the hosting solution from Chicago-based Trading Technologies (TT), to its suite of futures trading systems offered to the firm's institutional clients.
Lighthouse Taps SS&C GlobeOp for CVA
Investment management firm Lighthouse Partners, which serves fund of hedge funds, will use fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp to perform credit value adjustment (CVA) calculations.
Buy-Side Firms Grapple With 24-Hour Global Tech, Operations
At a recent conference in New York, major buy-side firms discussed the significant IT and staffing-related challenges associated with growing their businesses globally.
Broadridge Backs Bloomberg Tradebook
The investor communications provider is now helping Bloomberg's agency brokerage begin self-clearing U.S. equities with its hosted business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions.
Mobile Apps Should Be More User Friendly, Says Buy-Side Panel
Cloud, mobile, predictive analytics, and IBOR among the topics at a TSAM panel on "what's hot, what's not" on the buy side.
OFI Mandats Uses Linedata Chorus in the Cloud
The recently launched software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for Linedata Chorus has been chosen by discretionary fund management specialist OFI Mandats to enable it to reinforce its administrative, accounting and regulatory management services for its…
RTS Advances China Move
RTS Realtime Systems Group, a Frankfurt-based trading solutions provider, has established a Shanghai office and has initiated plans to move its data center to the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) co-location facility by year's end.
