Trading Tech
Fitch Preps CDS Pricing Enhancements
Fitch Solutions, the technology and content arm of ratings agency Fitch, is pitching its Risk Performance Platform at a range of new uses for pricing credit instruments, after conducting an internal study to validate its pricing model.
ASCI Readies ActiveBatch Release
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Job-scheduling software vendor Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. (ASCI) will release the newest version of its ActiveBatch platform by yearend, vendor officials tell DWT .
Tokyo Market Gears Up for Platform Change
TOKYO-The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) and Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) are in the process of replacing their respective trading platforms.
LSE Trading Halt Reveals Dependencies
LONDON-The European market got an unexpected wake-up call last week when, due to a confluence of events that affected connection stability between London Stock Exchange (LSE) members and the exchange's gateway, traders were unable to complete orders in…
CantorCO2e Preps Web-based CER Auction
LONDON-Officials from CantorCO2e, a member of the Cantor Fitzgerald group of companies, plan to hold their first online auction for certified emission reductions (CERs) using the firm's new Web-based auction platform on Oct. 2.
Omgeo Moves to Collateral Management
NEW YORK-Industry utility best known for automating post-trade settlements has its eyes on the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets with the acquisition of collateral management platform vendor Allustra and an exclusive licensing agreement with…
MUSI Takes RAP for Algo Rates Trading
LONDON-Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI), the European hub of the global securities and investment banking business of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., is finding new rates trading opportunities after implementing Real-time Analytics Platform …
New Members, New Access
The importance of various global markets wax and wane in response to the credit market crunch, and access to the Swift network has never been more important for financial institutions and corporations. DWT editor Rob Daly speaks with David Pryce, deputy…
Proquote Creates Pan-Europe Book Display
The London Stock Exchange's data vendor subsidiary Proquote will this week release an update to its Proquote International market data terminal that contains datafeeds from other European trading venues to create a pan-European consolidated order book,…
IBM Updates LLM; Preps Infodyne Integration
IBM has released a new version of its MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM) platform, incorporating a range of features to improve the speed, throughput and reliability of the message bus.
Citihub Outlines Latency Reduction Strategy
Financial technology consultancy Citihub has published a whitepaper that offers a framework for investment firms to address the latency of their market data and trading systems architectures.
Latency in Mind, LSE Debuts Hosting Service
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange (LSE) launched an exchange hosting service last week to tackle latency.
Report: Algos Face Uphill Battle in FX Landscape
BOSTON-Although the foreign exchange (FX) market has adapted to electronic trading, the industry might not see a proliferation of broker-provided execution algorithms in the short to medium term, according to an impact note from research firm Aite Group.
Open Source Gains Vertical Knowledge
Application-level solutions give firms and brokerages a real competitive advantage. By Steve Bate
Deutsche Börse Targets Algo Trading
FRANKFURT-Deutsche Börse expects to attract more cash market algorithm-based trading to its Xetra platform with a series of technology improvements set to be implemented in the rest of this year and in 2009, according to officials.
Thomson Reuters Readies Derivatives Platform
Thomson Reuters has launched an international securitized derivatives data and trading platform, building upon a German-focused product that was launched earlier this year using technology from Frankfurt-based data technology vendor Financial.com.
Nasdaq OMX Europe Teams with Citi
LONDON-Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Nasdaq OMX Europe, scheduled to go live Sept. 26, has partnered with Citi to provide broker routing services.
Tradient Preps API Data Access
Tradient Technologies, the trading systems and data arm of Chicago-based trading firm Terra Nova Financial, is planning to offer application programming interface (API) access to the data in its trader workstation products, for firms to integrate into…
Turquoise Suffers Connectivity Glitch
LONDON-Newly launched multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise experienced a service interruption Monday, Sept. 1, after a failure in one of its firewalls triggered automatic failover capabilities, redirecting trading firms to its secondary firewall.
New Challenges for an Old Exchange
European reporter Joel Clark of Waters magazine, the sibling publication of DWT , sat down with David Lester, CIO of the London Stock Exchange, for an inside look at the venerable bourse.
BOCI Adopts CEP Platform from Progress
BEDFORD, MASS.-BOC International Holdings Ltd. (BOCI), the wholly owned investment bank of Bank of China, has selected application infrastructure software provider Progress Software's Progress Apama complex event processing (CEP) platform, the vendor…