Trading Tech
Seeking Alpha, Buy Side Looks to Information Arbitrage
Funds and prop shops want their data bigger and dirtier, and analytics to match. While the buy side and their data providers haven't figured everything out, experts in Chicago say the race is surely on.
Ed Flynn on Data Budgets and Regulation at Inside Market Data Chicago
Ed Flynn, principal of consultancy The Flynndex Company, discusses end-user data budget trends and the impact of new regulation on data consumption, after moderating the opening panel at Inside Market Data Chicago 2012.
Monash Investors Implements Imagine's Portfolio, Risk Management Software
Australian absolute return fund Monash Investors has gone live with Imagine Software's trading system to support its dealings in the Australian equities, options and futures markets.
Analytics Critical for Tackling Big Data, But Humans Remain Paramount
As the amount of data firms must manage grows—due to both rising volumes from existing datasets and the exploration of new sources of data—firms increasingly turn to analytics to help make sense of the data. But analytics comes with its own set of…
Cologix Completes Toronto Colo Space
The colocation company is also working on a datacenter in downtown Toronto.
Natterbox to Provide Mobile Call Recording to Orange
The network-based solution requires no apps or software.
Infrastructure Change Is Good
Upgrading legacy systems is a necessity for buy-side and sell-side firms if they are to maximize revenues and keep up with regulations.
Citi Readies Corporate Actions Data Service
Event Master Central, a new service from the bank's asset servicing unit, will begin its roll-out in selected markets
UB Securities Selects Neonet for Execution Services
The Helsinki-based firm, which forms part of the United Bankers group, has chosen Neonet to provide its execution services.
ABN Amro Relies on MXG Team for Murex Rework
Amsterdam-based ABN Amro Bank is live on a "reworked" version of Murex's End of Day (EOD) and Value at Risk (VaR) reporting platform, a project managed in conjunction with MXG Team Limited, a Dublin-based privately owned specialist Murex consultancy.
Citi Debuts Alternative Trading Platform
Citi has launched a new real-time alternative trading platform, dubbed Citi Cross ATS, which will allow users access to a wide number of sources of liquidity through the bank's proprietary matching engine.
FinAnalytica Unveils Managed Service Offering for Risk, Operations
Analytics solutions provider FinAnalytica has launched Cognity Managed Services, which provides customized managed services for data management, portfolio analytics, reporting and consulting. It will be delivered through the vendor's Cognity application…
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…