Trading Tech
Looking for Excel in All the Wrong Places
In an era where the speed of light is actually becoming a problem, it’s amazing how a lack of sophistication permeates certain areas of businesses.
The Right Cross: Rate Swaps Nearing Cross-Margining Frontier
As clearing bears down on interest rate swaps contracts, buy-side firms will have to take a close look at dealer efficiency. Modeling knowledge and cross margining infrastructure are good first steps.
Euroclear To Launch Online Service For Corporate Actions
EasyWay has been developed in close collaboration with five financial firms and will provide users with a consolidated view of corporate actions data, including uninstructed balances, pending instructions and tri-party collateral
Moscow Exchange Taps Equinix for Low-Latency Link
Moscow Exchange has connected to Equinix's London LD4 International Business Exchange datacenter for direct access to its markets.
Capital Partners and Quote MTF to Launch New Spanish Venue
Multilateral trading facility (MTF) Quote MTF and London-based Capital Partners are planning to launch a Spanish trading platform in coming months, challenging the fourth-largest European market's incumbent exchange.
The Industry Needs to Come Together on Policing Itself When it Comes to HFT
Whether its through AT 9000 or some other industry-led initiative, HFT firms need to be proactive in addressing the risk concerns inherent in their chosen strategy.
PDQ Debuts Algos for Manual Traders
Manual traders can now get co-located execution without owning any co-located servers.
Internal Infrastructure Outdated as Outsourcing Trend Grows
The construction of internal infrastructures within buy-side firms is a thing of the past, according to Bob Miller, CTO of New York-headquartered hosted service provider VistaOne Solutions.
Cass Questions Circuit Breakers in New Study
The Cass Business School at City University, London, has released an academic paper questioning the validity of measures put in place after the Flash Crash to ensure market stability.
Belfius Turns to Autonomy For Post-Trade Automation
Belfius Bank, formerly Dexia, has selected Autonomy, an HP company's Scrittura product to automate its trade confirmation process.
New Alliance Calls For ISO 15022 Phase-Out
Several investment firms and service providers are presenting a business case for completing the industry's migration to the ISO 20022 messaging standard for corporate actions
Thomson Reuters Drills Oil Refinery Alerts Into Eikon
Oil traders using Eikon can now view real-time alerts from Genscape on the operational status of oil refineries
Linedata Partners With StatPro for Portfolio Analytics, Reporting
Linedata has announced that it will team with StatPro in order to provide integrated portfolio analytics and reporting to asset managers via the cloud.
SkyBridge Capital Chooses Imagine Software for Risk Aggregation
The portfolio and risk management solutions provider says its new Risk Aggregator platform is helping the $6.6 billion AUM fund-of-funds locate, verify, and normalize position-level data through independent sourcing of information.
Algo Error Damage Apparent as Knight Releases Q3 Results
The electronic market maker lost $389.9 million from July to the end of September, with net-negative revenues of $189.8 million.