Trading Tech
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.
Swift to Focus on IT at New Malaysian Hub
The corporate center, based in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, is part of an aggressive regional plan for the messaging provider.
Banco Penta Selects Calypso for Interest Rate Derivates
The Chilean bank settled on Calypso after more than a year of searching.
Daiwa Europe Lights Torstone's Inferno in Back Office
Daiwa Europe, the investment banking subsidiary of Japanese brokerage firm Daiwa Securities Group, has chosen Torstone Technology's Inferno for its post-trade securities processing and trade accounting.
Digiterre Prepares Communica Platform Launch
London-based investment management software vendor Digiterre is set to launch its Communica platform next month.
iTB Launches New Fixed Income Trading Platform
Software provider iTB Holdings, which caters to institutional fixed income traders, has launched a new platform, dubbed iTBconnect, that will allow buy-side firms to connect to electronic fixed income trading venues.
SmartTrade Adds to LiquidityFX
Pricing, price distribution, and risk management are among the components being added in December.