Trading Tech
Thomson Eyes Hosted Terminal Growth
Thomson Financial is considering making various versions of its Thomson One data products available using a Web interface rather than downloaded software, following demand for a Web-based version of its Thomson One Investment Management application.
Progress Launches Smart Order Router
BEDFORD, MASS.-Progress Software will announce today, Jan. 21, the launch of its Progress Apama Smart Order Router (SOR) Accelerator, DWT has learned.
Commodities ECN to Launch This Year
KANSAS CITY, MO.-Institutional commodities traders will soon have a new trading venue for over-the-counter (OTC) commodity options contracts with the expected mid-year launch of the Agora-X ECN, say ECN officials.
BEA, Lab49 Offer Joint Event Processing Strategy
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Middleware provider BEA Systems and financial services technology applications developer Lab49 have teamed up to create a framework approach to utilize the BEA WebLogic Event Server, officials announced today, Jan. 14.
DataSynapse Adds Microsoft Support
NEW YORK-Application virtualization software provider DataSynapse has announced the release of the latest version of its grid computing software FabricServer 2.5 today, Jan. 14, which includes support for Microsoft application platforms, including .Net…
Asia-Pacific in Hot Pursuit of West
ASIA-Three of the key trends of the US market last year-latency, regulation and data volumes-will emerge as key drivers of market development in the Asia-Pacific region this year, experts say, signaling that the Asian markets are fast catching up with…
Yipes Deploys PoPs in Europe
San Francisco-based Ethernet network provider Yipes Enterprise Services has bolstered its presence in Europe with the addition of two new points of presence (PoPs) in London and Frankfurt.
GL Trade to Debut TASE Link
PARIS & TEL AVIV-Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) officials expect to raise their exchange's international profile by connecting to GL Trade's pan-European application service provider (ASP) platform in April, say vendor officials.
ETRM Integration Challenges
As investment banks look to become more active in energy markets, many are just getting up to speed and learning the challenges of integrating their energy trading into their existing trading portfolio. With this in mind, Dealing with Technology has…
Allegheny Completes Integration Project
Energy utility Allegheny Energy has recently completed an integration project to streamline daily practices associated with energy transacting and related accounting processes by reducing the number of "handoffs" between operational groups, say officials…
Selecting the Proper ETRM Platform
After the collapse of Enron, the California energy crisis and misreporting of gas prices, the market for software to support energy trading and risk management (ETRM), hit a low point. In the last two years, however, the market has picked up, largely…
Industry Debuts Hybrid Emission Trading
The emissions market has taken its first steps to greater transparency as inter-dealer broker GFI Group recently launched its Web-based EnergyMatch trading platform for over-the-counter (OTC) energy derivatives.
InfoReach to Adopt FIXATDL
CHICAGO-BrokerReach, a light-weight Web-based execution management system (EMS) from financial trading software vendor InfoReach, should be sporting support for FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXATDL) in its wizard function in the near…
AXE Preps Q1 Launch with BT Proximity
AXE, an Australian ECN set up jointly by the New Zealand Exchange, Citigroup, CommSec, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie Bank and Merrill Lynch in 2006 to provide competition for trading and reporting in Australian Securities Exchange-listed stocks, will…
Turquoise to Waive Data Fees at Launch
Project Turquoise, the European multilateral trading facility formed by a consortium of nine broker-dealers, plans to make its quote-and-trade data available free of charge when the platform goes live later this year.
TSE Set to Take Derivatives Engine Live
TOKYO-The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is going live on a new derivatives trading engine this Tuesday, Jan. 15, and at the same time, will launch an electronic off-auction trading market for derivatives.
New Year, Old Challenges
The beginning of every January brings that short, but brilliant, burst of collective optimism that this year will be better than last year: Business will pick up, IT will have enough resources to meet all the demands placed upon it by the business lines…
Welcome Back... and Welcome!
I was fortunate to be invited to spend the holidays this year in the company of friends in the San Francisco area. On Christmas Day, I was presented with a gift marked "from Satan." A typo, I wondered? Is Santa dyslexic? Sadly no-the gift that emerged…
Aite: Data Tech Spend to Rise
New research from financial technology consultancy Aite Group is predicting a rapid rise in spending on high-performance market data infrastructures over the next three years, from $4.9 billion in 2007 to $7.8 billion by the end of 2010.
Activ: Low Latency to 'Get Real' in 2008
In 2008, the data industry must heed the ghosts of Christmas past if it is to prevent history from repeating itself and deliver cost-effective latency reduction. By Shawn Kaplan, business development manager, Activ Financial
Technology for Navigating the Perfect Data Storm
Reliance on legacy messaging solutions in the face of rising volumes and other market forces and technology drivers is creating a Perfect Storm that threatens to flood messaging infrastructures. By Barry Thompson, founder and chief technology officer,…
The Future of Algo Trading-Beyond Headlines
News-based algorithmic trading is moving from science fiction to working strategy. And 2008 promises continued growth as data becomes more robust, models become more sophisticated, and the number of applications increases. By Joe Lanza, vice president…