Trading Tech
Euro wealth management tech market nears $2 billion
Spending by the European wealth management industry will reach $1.7 billion by the close of 2008, growing at a somewhat more modest pace than in recent years as global economic indicators remain volatile. Despite current challenges in financial markets…
Spotlight on Richard Balarkas
Richard Balarkas, the man who played a key role taking CSFB electronic, is heading up Instinet's European operations. He talks with Stewart Eisenhart about the agency broker's goals and challenges in a post-Mifid landscape, as well as how a distinctly…
Learning from the buy side
Udayan Goyal, a managing director at Deutsche Bank and part of Deutsche's Global Financial Technology Advisory Practice, believes the sell side has a lot to learn from the buy side when it comes to identifying, developing, and deploying technologies to…
One hub to rule them all
The rapid rise in the use of STP for OTC derivatives trade affirmations and confirmations has triggered the establishment of a number of players over recent years with platforms from DTCC and SwapsWire dominating the market. However, the fact that no…
The gloves come off at TradeTech... sort of
With the LSE, Chi-X, and Turquoise on the same panel, everyone at this year's TradeTech conference could be forgiven for thinking they were in for something of a Mexican stand-off. But as Joel Clark reports, the panel discussion turned out to be a damp…
Attitude adjustment
The expectation game's role in the hedge fund industry can prove make-or-break more often than not for many individual managers. Bearish investor expectations in particular don't bode especially well. By Stewart Eisenhart
A northern tale
The wealth management industry has become a happy hunting ground for front-office technology providers who can assist managers in growing their business. When one such vendor deployed its platform to Border Asset Management early last year, it found a…
Knight Cuts Knight Link Latency
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Broker-dealer Knight Capital Group is reducing the latency in its internal crossing network, Knight Link, almost by half, firm officials tell DWT .
Schneider Upgrades Backbone
LONDON-To handle increased trading traffic and in preparation for adopting server virtualization and thin-client computing, execution broker Schneider Trading Associates plans to replace its dual 1 Gbps connections to its offsite datacenter in central…
DKIB Bolsters IT Audits
NEW YORK-After a two-year project to standardize, harmonize and enforce architectural standards for the investment bank's IT infrastructure, Dresdner Kleinwort (DKIB) is on the verge of using its enterprise infrastructure audit platform, Tideway Systems'…
The Welch Way
With the klaxons sounding over the credit crunch, there's a quieter revolution happening in IT. Between the cost cutting and rising demand for faster and more exhaustive risk calculations, major financial firms are being pushed into deploying compute and…
Quant House Expands Equinix Co-location
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has expanded its hosting partnership with Equinix to provide clients with low-latency data and co-location services in Chicago, officials tell Inside Market Data .
DWT Panel: Apps Hinder Firms' Latency Efforts
Trading firms are being hampered in their efforts to achieve nanosecond-fast data by applications and other parts of the trading process that introduce latency, according to panelists at the London conference of sibling publication Dealing With…
Quodd Preps Filtering, Display Upgrade
Jersey City, NJ-based Quodd Financial Information Services, a provider of real-time North American equities and options market data, will beef up its Equity+ MarketMonitor Web-based data display product, with enhanced filtering and display capabilities…
Aleri Readies Live OLAP Tool
Complex event processing software vendor Aleri will next month launch a new version of Aleri Live OLAP, an engine for performing visual analysis of multidimensional data sets on live, streaming data, sourced from the vendor's CEP platform.
Aite: CEP Integration Costly and Complex
The biggest hurdle to deploying complex event processing technology is the cost of integrating CEP software with market data feeds and other applications, according to new research from financial technology consultancy Aite Group.
Barchart Launches AgriCharts Mobile Service
AgriCharts, the commodities data subsidiary of Chicago-based futures data and charting vendor Barchart, will this week unveil a new mobile data product aimed at brokers of agricultural commodities and farmers and agricultural suppliers looking for price…
Tech, Culture Hamper Cross-Asset Adoption
More markets going electronic and certain trading technologies becoming increasingly commoditized are two of the reasons for the rise in cross-asset trading seen recently, according to industry experts.