Trading Tech
Open Source Gains in Front Office
NEW YORK-In an effort to bring open source to the sell side, open-source order management system (OMS) developer Marketcetera is teaming with professional services firm dbConcert to create a services package for broker-dealers, officials tell DWT.
Turquoise Taps Corvil for Latency
DUBLIN-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise has selected an offering from networking and latency management tools vendor Corvil to monitor latency within its London market center.
360T Adds Multi-Leg Swaps
FRANKFURT-Multi-dealer trading platform vendor, 360 Treasury Systems (360T) introduced multi-leg foreign exchange (FX) swap trading on its cross-product trading platform, 360T TEX, in response to client demand today, Oct. 13, according to vendor…
Fidessa Adds 'Global' US Ticker to Support New Trading Platform
UK-based trading technology and data provider Fidessa has set up a global ticker plant in North America to collect data from exchanges and markets carried by the vendor worldwide, to support its creation of a hosted US trading platform (USTP) for…
Turquoise Taps Corvil for Latency Management
Pan-European multilateral trading facility Turquoise plans to set up a pilot program to provide latency metrics to member trading firms using software from Dublin-based latency monitoring technology vendor Corvil.
Chi-X Preps Sponsored Hedge Fund Co-Lo
Instinet's pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X aims to have its first hedge fund clients trading via a new sponsored co-location service before the end of this year, officials tell Inside Market Data .
TSEC Consults NYSE for Platform Update
TAIPEI-The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) has entered into an IT assessment cooperation with NYSE Euronext. The design consultation involves a comparison of TSEC's current trading platform and that of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to TSEC…
Tocom Readies Co-Location
TOKYO-Staring in May 2009, commodity traders on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) will have the option to co-locate their servers in the exchange's datacenters, say officials
Chi-X Debuts Sponsored Access
LONDON-Clients of Chi-X Europe's trading participants are now able to connect directly to the multilateral trading facility's (MTF's) core matching engine, according to MTF officials.
Capacity Management: Voices from the Trenches
Today's complexity and enormously competitive requirements to predict and mange scale, quality of service (QoS) and cost, demand a new tooling discipline to truly transform the way we manage capacity, and to take it to the next level. Only by engineering…
Knight Quests for Rendezvous' Replacement
NEW YORK-Knight Capital Group is beta testing an internally developed messaging software that the firm plans to roll out later in the fourth quarter of this year to replace existing layers including its Tibco Rendezvous messaging layer, according to…
SunGard, Fidessa Add Global Equities Execution
NEW YORK-In the drive to meet growing client demand for trading on international markets from the U.S., SunGard and Fidessa have added capabilities to trade cash equities markets outside the U.S. to their respective order management systems (OMSes),…
MTFs Continue to Bank on EMCF
LONDON-Despite the forced acquisition of Fortis Bank Nederland by Dutch authorities, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) relying on the European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF), which is run by the bank, will continue regular operations,…
Baxter to Add Algos
NEW YORK-Customers trading on the Baxter ECN from venue operator and foreign exchange (FX) technology provider Baxter Financial Services will have algorithmic capabilities by the end of the year, DWT has learned.
Next Stop: iTrade?
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average plumbing depths even lower than US political campaigns, how do you keep in touch with fluctuating prices when you're not beside-or can't bear to look at-your data terminal?
Reliance Readies Euro MTF Access
Network provider Reliance Globalcom is preparing to provide access to market data from a swathe of European trading venues via its Yipes FinancialConnect network, officials say.
Blazing a trail
Since its inception, algorithmic trading has been powered by complex event processing (CEP) technology, designed to allow trading engines to make snap decisions on the basis of streaming data and market events. But although CEP is often perceived as the…
Icap Expands i-Cross to Europe
LONDON-Interdealer broker Icap is in the process of expanding its low-latency connectivity service, i-Cross, to datacenter hosting provider Equinix's London-Slough Internet Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter, officials announced today, Oct. 6.
Marco Polo Delivers Trading Front Ends
NEW YORK-As part of an ongoing initiative to expand its footprint within the emerging markets, FIX-enabled trading network provider Marco Polo Network announced today, Oct. 6, that it will be bundling the IMTrader secure instant messaging and trade…
BNY ConvergEx Taps StreamBase CEP
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage BNY ConvergEx has rolled out complex event processing (CEP) software from Lexington, Mass.-based technology provider StreamBase to monitor trading and market data in its U.S. equities trading operations.
CME Outsources E-quotes Data App to CVS
CME Group has rolled out a new version of its Web-based E-quotes data display application and wireless add-on that incorporates data from acquisitions the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Mercantile Exchange, and is completely built and hosted by…
Icap Enlists Equinix for European EBS Co-Lo
Icap has extended a deal with datacenter provider Equinix to give European clients access to low-latency data from Icap's EBS spot foreign exchange trading platform.
Tervela Launches Options 'Package'
Hardware-based messaging provider Tervela will this week unveil a version of its Tervela Message Network, specifically designed to address the needs of high-volume options market makers.
Fixnetix Connects to Nasdaq Europe
UK-based low-latency data provider Fixnetix has rounded out its European MTF data offering with connectivity to Nasdaq OMX's recently launched pan- European multilateral trading facility.