Trading Tech
Sungard Readies MicroHedge Release
NEW YORK- Traders of equities, index and futures options will have a more granular view of their trading risk as SunGard introduces intra-day decay tracking in the latest update of its options trading and risk management platform MicroHedge, according to…
CA Cheuvreux Prepares Internal Cross
NEW YORK-Clients of CA Cheuvreux will have another potential liquidity pool to tap as the agency brokerage arm of Crédit Agricole is in the process of rolling out its new internal crossing network, dubbed Blink, DWT has learned.
Finding the Secret Ingredient
It seems that my editor's letter in DWT 's recent latency special report ( DWT , Nov. 10) in which I discuss the trend of hiring IT staff outside from the financial verticals and what impact that would have for organizations has gotten some push back…
Instinet Takes CBX to Hong Kong
HONG KONG-Electronic agency broker Instinet is set to expand its CBX off-exchange liquidity pool for institutional investors to Hong Kong at the end of the month, officials tell DWT .
NYSE Euronext Sets Spring Launch
PARIS-Exchange operator and technology provider NYSE Euronext is set to launch a new market model for warrants and certificates, dubbed Spring, on Jan. 19, 2009, say officials.
BT Casts Ultra Net in Chicago
BT Global Financial Services is preparing to roll out an iteration of its Radianz Ultra Access network for the Chicago market that will provide ultra-low-latency connectivity between trading firms and exchange venues in the Chicago area, officials tell…
NextView Preps Japanese Terminals, Scanner Tool
Singapore-based data vendor NextView plans to launch a new data terminal product in the first quarter of next year, aimed at commodities traders in Japan, officials tell Inside Market Data .
SpryWare Debuts Quote Mitigation
Chicago-based ticker plant and low-latency data provider SpryWare will this week unveil a new component of its Market Information Server ticker plant, dubbed Quote Mitigation Technology, that enables clients to populate display applications with data…
Tenfore Upgrades Technology for Volume Growth
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems is upgrading its underlying technology platform to enable its TDX consolidated feed infrastructure to handle spiralling data volumes without needing to conflate any of the quote and trade data carried via the feed.
Attacking Latency at Its Roots
If there is one rule in trading in financial markets, it's that time is money. Latency is no longer a concern solely for the arbitrage shops-it has become an issue for firms across the spectrum. To discuss how firms can best optimize their systems to…
Brokerages on the Front Lines of Data Revolution
The trading of equities, fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) has become a lightning-fast world, one that gets a bit faster every day. Every month, it seems there are fewer traders waving their hands around on the floor of the stock exchange-much to…
Thomson Reuters, Savvis Partner in India
Thomson Reuters has partnered with network and hosting services vendor Savvis to provide direct datafeeds and proximity hosting to international trading firms seeking low-latency access to Indian equity markets, officials tell Inside Market Data.
UniCredit Taps Caplin, Reuters for e-FX
MILAN-As a cornerstone of its multi-asset e-commerce initiative, European bank UniCredit's market and investment banking (MIB) division has selected Caplin Trader from Caplin Systems and the Reuters Electronic Trading-Automated Dealing (RET-AD) platform…
Credit Suisse Expands FX Algos to Asia
Hong Kong-Following the launch of algorithmic trading in foreign exchange (FX) in North America and Europe earlier this year, Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (AES) has recently expanded the capability to Asia, according to bank officials.
ICE Heats Up Options
Even as the financial crisis unfolds on Wall Street, customers are demanding innovation and functionality from over-the-counter (OTC) markets. DWT reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Edwin Marcial, CTO of the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), to…
CQG Adopts Progress Apama for Advanced Ex
BEDFORD, MASS - Denver - headquartered futures charting and trading software provider CQG has announced today, Nov. 10, that it plans to deliver advanced execution capabilities on its platform using Progress Apama's complex event processing (CEP)…
First Coverage Aggregates Myriad Media Sources
TORONTO-To help traders deal with the proliferation of information from various sources, trade idea distribution platform provider First Coverage has announced the latest version of its offering that aims to aggregate information from different media…
Curse of the Black Swan
Black swan events are few and far between, but when they do occur they are generally memorable occasions. This is precisely what happened during Black Week – from Monday 6 to Friday 11 October – as Asian investors triggered a sell-off that saw the Dow…
Fixnetix Taps Corvil for Latency Monitoring
UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix is using technology from Irish vendor Corvil to provide ongoing latency monitoring and management services for existing subscribers to the vendor's feeds, and benchmark performance…
eSignal Opens Up FutureSource For Energy, Agri Focus
Interactive Data's eSignal division last month unveiled a new version of its FutureSource commodities, futures and foreign exchange data workstation, including new content and the ability for users to display proprietary and third-party data within the…
Cognotec Releases RealStream Upgrade
DUBLIN-Improvements in research, analysis and client onboarding are a few of the new features that officials from Web-based institutional foreign exchange (FX) trading software provider Cognotec have upgraded with the launch today, Nov. 3, of version 3.0…
European Bats on the wing
As competition among exchanges and multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs) heats up, ECN Bats Trading is taking on both markets simultaneously, having gained exchange status in the US and approval to launch an MTF in Europe. Max Bowie speaks with Joe…