Trading Tech
RTS and Fixnetix in low-latency alliance
RTS Realtime Systems Group, the Ravensburg, Germany-based trading systems provider, has teamed up with Fixnetix to provide ultra-low-latency trading tools for the high-frequency trading community accessing European equity and derivatives markets.
Kepler live with SunGard for Euro market connect
Amsterdam-based agency brokerage Kepler Capital Markets, is using SunGard's ASP-based connectivity services to help broaden its market connectivity in Europe. Kepler has added three new gateways to access the public order books of BATS Europe, Nasdaq OMX…
New contracts for RBC Dexia
Manulife (Singapore) has selected RBC Dexia Investor Services to handle the fund valuations for 42 investment-linked portfolios and the accounting for more than $1.05 billion in funds under management (consisting primarily of fund of funds structures).
LLB Group selects SunGard's Ambit platform
Liechtenstein-based LLB Group has selected SunGard's Ambit Risk & Performance Management platform to support its liquidity risk management and asset/liability management functions. According to SunGard, LLB Group will use Ambit's automated processes to…
DekaBank goes live with SunGard's Asset Arena Compliance
Frankfurt-based DekaBank's central asset management arm, with €168 billion under management, has implemented SunGard's Asset Arena Compliance product to provide back-office support for its pre-trade, post-trade and post-NAV compliance requirements. Asset…
Jericho implements Tradar Insight system
Jericho Capital Asset Management, a New York-based start-up hedge fund manager, has implemented Tradar Insight, an integrated portfolio management and accounting system from London-based hedge fund technology provider Tradar. Jericho installed Tradar…
Chi-Tech adds FTEN tools to platform
Chi-X Global's technology services unit Chi-X Global Technology (Chi-Tech) has partnered with trading and risk software developer FTEN in an effort to beef up the high-frequency execution and risk capabilities of its MarketPrizm electronic trading…
Changing places
Paul Squires, head of trading at AXA Investment Management in London, has witnessed a number of industry changes over the years, but few have been as dramatic as the shift in the balance of power from the sell side to the buy side over the last 18 months…
Connect to control
When AQR Capital Management, the $20 billion quantitative hedge fund and investment manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, decided to upgrade its trade-matching processes, it had no other vendor than Omgeo in mind; and with Omgeo having developed a…
Everything in its right place
What a difference a year makes. The 2008 TradeTech West conference in San Francisco took place just days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the heralding of the global credit crisis. Projections of shoestring technology budgets, major overhauls of…
XSP partners with Decillion Group on corporate actions
XSP, the Birmingham, Alabama-based corporate actions software provider, has partnered with Decillion Group, a banking software firm and Swift's official business partner for Australasia, to provide a service-based version of the XSP v5 corporate actions…
Integral Packages FX Feed, History
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral will this week begin distributing real-time and historical FX price data from its FX Grid multibank trading platform, to enable retail brokers-particularly those promoting a "no-dealing desk" execution…
Achieving Best Ex
There is one thing that industry participants can agree upon: The global economic recovery is not around the corner, which means best execution is more important today than ever before, especially considering the high levels of competition we are seeing…
Rethink Architecture or Risk Drowning in Data
Increasing volumes of data resulting from the growth of high-frequency trading could overwhelm markets unless firms review their infrastructure requirements, and find new ways to improve their data architectures beyond simply adding hardware or…
Fidessa Melds Data, Trading Platforms
Trading technology and data provider Fidessa has completed the integration of market data from its global ticker plants onto its US hosted trading platform, enabling users to trade on real-time market data and monitor their orders via a single screen.
CQG Grows Emerging Markets Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is adding connectivity to exchanges in emerging markets in Asia, central Europe and Latin America to meet increasing client demand for emerging markets data and the ability to trade on…
SunGard Continues Data Integration
SunGard's Global Trading division will soon roll out data from its MarketMap data terminal product into its GL Win trading terminal, in the latest move to integrate its data architecture and share content across business lines within the SunGard group of…