Trading Tech
OpenFin Launches HTML5 Desktop for Trading Applications
OpenFin, a New York-based technology vendor founded in 2010, has launched OpenFin Desktop for the deployment of trading applications using HTML5.
Fidessa Promotes Smart Approach to Tech Investment in White Paper
Trading technology vendor Fidessa has published a white paper that urges large-scale financial institutions to adopt a nuanced approach to in-house development of technology.
Thomson Reuters Enhances FX Matching Platform
Thomson Reuters has announced "significant" additions to its foreign exchange (FX) matching platform, including a new interface and FIX-based application programming interface (API).
Novia Chooses Calastone for Order Routing, Net Settlement
Wealth management platform provider Novia has chosen Calastone for its order routing and net settlement services.
RBS’ Eddie: Capital Requirements Set to Get Harder
Capital requirements have been daunting to address, and will only get harder with Basel III, says Alan Eddie, who runs risk technology for the Americas for the markets and investment banking businesses at the Royal Bank of Scotland, speaking at the…
BofA’s Reilly: Mobility About Risk and Data Control, Not Cost Cutting
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has internally distributed 55,000 BlackBerrys and 5,000 Apple iPads, as well as 20,000 devices that it supports as part of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. In one year, it handles 2.6 billion instant messages, 1.2…
MIK Adds Treasury Functionality to Equity Finance Platform
MIK Fund Solutions has announced the addition of advanced treasury optimization capabilities to its equity finance product suite, aimed at hedge fund and asset managers.
Gresham Computing Claims Ultra-Low Latency Transaction Control
London-based Gresham Computing claims that its financial transaction control system can complete 500,000 transactions per second.
SunGard Launches Apex Prime for Single View of Hedge Fund Activity
SunGard has released Apex Prime to help prime services providers with day-to-day processing and client services.
CQG Preps Prototype Lab, Eyes Mobile
The web-based test platform will allow CQG to elicit feedback as it builds a new mobile data platform.
Startup iPerform Data Bows Near-Real-Time Bond Pricing
More frequent pricing will create greater transparency for traders and index providers, officials say.
Prague Stock Exchange Live On Xetra
Prague Stock Exchange has gone live on Deutsche Börse's Xetra trading platform.
Chilean Pension Fund Taps Princeton Financial Systems for Compliance
Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) Habitat, a Chilean pension fund, has chosen Princeton Financial Systems to help with investment compliance.
Direct Edge Adds Pre-Trade Risk Controls
Direct Edge has added EdgeRisk Controls, a pre-trade risk tool for its EDGA and EDGX Exchanges, which facilitates compliance with the US Securities and Exchange (SEC) Market Access Rule 15(c)3-5 for broker-dealers and their clients.
StatPro Adds Options, OTC Derivatives to Revolution
Analytics platform expands coverage to meet demand from clients building more complex cross-asset portfolios
Clearstream Opens Dublin Office
Deutsche Börse's clearing and settlement arm, Clearstream, has announced the opening of a location in Dublin, to better serve hedge fund clients.
Infrastructure Management webcast
Inside Market Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on November 28, 2012 to discuss how with the rising cost of ultra-low-latency data infrastructures prompting some firms to focus their infrastructure investments elsewhere, what will be…
TS-Associates Chooses NYI to Implement Instrumentation Solutions
TS-Associates, a provider of latency monitoring technology, has chosen New York-based NYI to host the reference implementations of its instrumentation solutions.
FTN Financial Implements SunGard's Stream Securities for Fixed Income
FTN Financial Capital Markets and FTN Financial Securities, subsidiaries of First Tennessee Bank, have implemented SunGard's Stream Securities to support their fixed income businesses.
PFSoft Introduces Module for Algo Trading
Ukraine-based PFSoft introduced AlgoStudio, a tool for algorithmic strategy development that supports MQSL and C# languages, as part of the ProTrader 2 direct market access (DMA) platform for trading strategies creation, optimization and back-testing.
Preventing Internal Breaches: The Call is Coming From Inside the House!
Hedge funds' internal networks are at risk more from internal breaches than external, say a pair of fund security experts. Though some kind of problem is going to happen to anything bigger than a family shop, there are basic steps the IT and operations…