Trading Tech
Tibco Debuts Distributed Caching Platform
PALO ALTO, CALIF.-Enterprise software developer Tibco Software has released ActiveSpaces, a distributed middleware product combining an in-memory database and messaging system, to support the development of distributed applications that need to run…
OTC Derivatives Clearing Debate Continues
NEW YORK-The Over-the-Counter Derivatives Act of 2009 approved by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 15, if signed into law, would shift the responsibility for regulating and ensuring central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC)…
Pulse Trading Seeks to Expand BlockCross Coverage
BOSTON-Agency broker Pulse Trading, operator of alternative trading system (ATS) BlockCross, plans to grow the continuous crossing network organically as well as through partnerships with other crossing networks, officials tell DWT .
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The Coming Crackdown
Asia Report
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The Price Isn't Right
The recession has put pressure on data consumers to lower costs and operate on tight budgets, but there have been mixed responses from vendors. Tine Thoresen reports on the pricing conflict
Software-as-a-Service: Enhancing Corporate Actions Efficiencies
SaaS-based solutions can be used to automate and support key business processes, including corporate actions processing, which in many ways is highly manual and, therefore, vulnerable to errors, says Fidelity ActionsXchange's Deb Culhane
Locking Down Liquidity
On October 5, the UK's Financial Services Authority released 09/16, Strengthening Liquidity Standards Policy Statement, the final version of the UK's long-awaited liquidity risk regulation. Carla Mangado explores how this will impact the back office and…
Standard Shifts
Standardization and the use of internationally recognized corporate actions messages has been one of the main topics of discussion at industry events this year. 2010 now promises to be a turning point. Carla Mangado explores the changes the coming year…
Editor's Letter - We're doing very nicely, thank you
I was at a presentation fairly recently where a research company claimed that there would be a significant contraction in the number of third-party technology vendors as a result of (among other things) buy-side firms reducing their third-party…
Prescient signs ASP contract with Eagle
Prescient Investment Management, a Cape Town-based independent quantitative investment manager with approximately $8 billion under management, has selected Eagle Investment Systems to deliver its integrated investment management suite via its application…
StatPro Group enhances CAP offering
StatPro Group, the Wimbledon, UK-based provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, has made two enhancements to its system for pricing complex financial assets: T+0 pricing for credit default swaps has…