Trading Tech
Tyler Selects OneTick
The technology-driven firm was looking for a tool to manage its research and quant strategies.
Ospero Partners with 10gen
The partnership will enable Ospero's customers to design, develop and deploy Big Data open source projects in one of Ospero's 24 global datacenters.
Appleton Preps Analysis App for Windows 8
Appleton plans to make its ClearTrend investment trend analysis application, which derives buy and sell signals from historical price trends, available via Microsoft’s Windows 8 app store when the new operating system launches
Open Platform: The Evolution of the Smart Broker
The past couple of years have seen broad structural changes to the world’s financial markets, which have resulted in a permanent and profound shift in the role and operating environment of sell-side firms. James Blackburn discusses how success can no…
Case-Based Reasoning: Drilling Deeper
After a summer of monumental systems errors, the din of voices begging for imaginative reform in IT risk is steadily growing. Tim Bourgaize Murray searches the frontier of artificial intelligence and infrastructure-dependent industries like energy for…
Corporate Bonds' Brave New World
With the market structure for corporate bonds in flux, Tim Bourgaize Murray finds that good ideas abound, and greater automation may bring some empowerment to the buy side. But in this fragmented market, even technology can’t completely quell the…
HSBC's Stephenson: Europe, Asia Take Different Approaches to Outsourcing
Cost is crucial for European asset managers, whereas Asia-Pacific fund managers must focus on technological investment, according to HSBC's global head of fund services Ian Stephenson, a panelist at yesterday's Linedata Exchange in London.
Mexican Broker Gives the Skinny on LatAm
Colocation and regulation are good in Latin America, but market data feeds are failing, says Mexican technologist.
Morgan Stanley Joins FXSpotStream as a Liquidity Provider
FXSpotStream, an industry utility that provides a multibank FX service to clients for the purpose of executing spot trades, has added Morgan Stanley as a liquidity provider.
In Regulating HFT, Europe Misses the Target
When NYSE announced that it would merge with Chicago-based ECN Archipelago at the turn of the century, it handed out silver bells for the first day of trading.
SunGard Launches Platform for Boutiques
Asset Arena 360 supports the entire investment value chain from portfolio analysis to reconciliation.
DST Corporate Actions Module Links Data Cleansing And Accounting System
Software vendor expects strong take-up in Asia and Australia of its HiPortfolio corporate actions module, which it says solves a persistent industry problem
HFT: The End of the World As We Know It?
Yesterday, European lawmakers voted in favor of introducing stricter controls around the controversial practice of high-frequency trading, proposing a regulation that would require all posted orders to be kept in the market for a minimum period of half-a…
Building Web-based Trading Applications video webcast
Is it feasible to adopt HTML5 as an enterprise development technology now, what are the issues, and how can they be addressed? WatersTechnology gathered leading industry experts to discuss this on September 20, 2012.
Level 3 Buys FibreSpan to Bolster London Metro Network, Hedge Fund Services
Acquisition will provide Level 3 with access to hedge funds in London's West End
Mixed Messages: Direct Edge Equivocates on HFT
Direct Edge's message efficiency program came and went in a flash. But why? And will Nasdaq's follow?
Crunch Time for Mifid II as HFT Goes Under the Knife
Today's the day, supposedly, when the European Parliament will vote on the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive─better known as Mifid II.
Algorithms: The Problem With Choice
Anthony looks at the challenges buy-side firms face when choosing a new algo, and the difficulties vendors have in finding balance when they pitch their new suite of algos.