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Anthony previews the inaugural SST Awards, and reviews the top buy-side stories from this week.
ICE, Cetip Bonds Platform Approved in Brazil
Brazilian securities regulator Comissao de Valores Mobiliarios (CVM) has approved Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE) fixed income trading platform, developed in conjunction with Rio de Janeiro-based depository Cetip.
CQG Unveils ‘Labs-Grown' Charting, Analytics Prototypes
First prototype apps awaiting user feedback provide displays covering market statistics, correlation and open-high-low-close data.
Polish CCP Taps Nasdaq OMX for Clearing, Risk Management
KDPW_CCP, the Polish clearing house, has gone live with Nasdaq OMX's over-the-counter (OTC) clearing and risk management solution, Sentinel.
Indus Valley Rolls Out Cloud Form PF Platform
Buy-side tech vendor Indus Valley Partners has announced a "lite" edition of its cloud-based Form PF reporting platform.
ITG Releases Closing Auction Liquidity Algo
Execution and research broker ITG has announced the release of its Dynamic Close algorithm, which pursues market liquidity in NYSE and Nasdaq closing auctions.
Midwestern Exchange Ends Outcry Trading After 156 Years
The CME Group promised, upon completion of its purchase of the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) in December, to keep the exchange's trading floor open for at least six months. That promise will go no further, as CME has announced its intention to end…
FTN Financial Implements HelixRepo, HelixMBS
Part of First Tennessee National Bank based in Memphis, FTN Financial Capital Markets will use HelixRepo and HelixMBS to track fixed-income financing and automate allocation of its mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) pools, respectively.
Capco Introduces 'Living Wills' Platform
Known officially as resolution plans, living wills for financial institutions are mandated by Dodd-Frank to provide rapid and orderly deconstruction of institutions in event of distress or bankruptcy.
Swaps Exchange TrueEX to Receive Services From Interactive Data
Massachusetts-based Interactive Data will provide a suite of services to trueEX, the first interest rate swaps exchange approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a designated contract market (DCM).
OpenLink Announces EMIR Compliance Software for Bilateral Derivatives
OpenLink Financial, a transaction lifecycle management (TLM) software provider based in Uniondale, New York, has launched a European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) business intelligence solution, an extension of OpenLink's CubeIntelligence…
Fighting Zombies: Valuation Scrutiny Upends Private Equity
Regulators and potential investors have made clear that private equity (PE) firms should draw a line from valuation algorithms to limited partner, or LP, reporting. Technology is the ink.
IBM Upgrades Big Data, Cloud Approach
Technology juggernaut IBM has announced an extensive revamp of its PureSystems integrated platform, which allows for the rapid deployment of private cloud infrastructure and large data set analysis.
Equinix Deploys ScienceLogic's IT Infrastructure Management Solution
Connectivity and data center company Equinix announced that it has fully deployed ScienceLogic's IT infrastructure management platform.
Northern Trust Adds Risk, Performance Info to Data Direct Platform
Northern Trust announced that it is adding additional risk and performance data that will allow institutional and wealth management clients to make more informed comparisons through its Data Direct offering.
Jyske Bank Automates Corporate Actions With SmartStream
The Danish bank will use the product provided by SmartStream Technologies to avoid the risk associated with its previous manual practices
OMS Workflow Tool Introduced by Thomson Reuters
The DataScope Workflow License (DWL) will provide a series of technical indicators to optimize investment firms' order management systems.