Trading Tech
Bank of Korea Turns to Calypso for Portfolio Management
Bank of Korea, responsible for managing the world’s seventh largest foreign reserve of $329 billion, has gone live with Calypso Technology’s portfolio management solution.
Kepler Capital Markets Selects smartTrade’s LMS for Hybrid Inflation Platform
Paris-based interdealer broker Kepler Capital Markets has chosen smartTrade Technologies’ Liquidity Management System (LMS) to develop its hybrid auction platform for inflation products.
Liquidity Fragmentation in Fixed Income is Here to Stay, Says iTB CEO
Michael Chuang has made a big bet that history will not repeat itself when it comes to a massive collapse in the number of fixed income trading platforms.
Natixis Joins CLS as Settlement Member
CLS Group has announced that Natixis has upgraded its membership of the service from a third-party participant to a full settlement member.
Kx Unveils Higher-Performance Kdb+ Tick DB
Improvements to underlying tick database technology allows users to run analyses on more data, faster.
Nice Systems Releases New Trading Floor Communications Oversight Tool
The Israeli software provider says its Proactive Compliance Solution will help firms monitor and investigate trade interactions, capacity requirements for which have increased under the Dodd-Frank Act and other new regulations globally.
Work is a Thing You Do
Getting to grips with new ways of working.
Avaloq Launches Singapore BPO Center
The Avaloq Group has announced that it will open a business process outsourcing (BPO) center in Singapore, targeting Asian wealth managers based in the city state.
Three FCMs Join MarkitSERV Credit Centre
Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and Goldman Sachs have signed up to MarkitSERV Credit Centre, Markit's pre-trade credit-checking facility for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions.
Euronext Exchanges Delay Opening After Glitch
Trading was delayed for about an hour at exchanges in Paris, Lisbon, Brussels, and Amsterdam after an as-of-yet unidentified technology malfunction.
IDC Bows Hosted Consolidated Feed API
The API is aimed at third-party software developers and financial institutions that want to display data on desktops
ConvergEx Adds Real-Time Margin Tools
New York-based agency broker ConvergEx Group has announced the addition of real-time margin calculation tools to its LiquidPoint product.
Gravitas and IBM to Offer Risk Services to Small Hedge Funds
Gravitas, a New York-based provider of hedge fund technology, has chosen the IBM Risk Analytics engine to provide risk-as-a-service for emerging and mid-sized hedge funds.
