Trading Tech

Pinpointing Securities

The problem of accurately identifying securities is leading to a large number of failed transactions, estimated to cost the market millions of dollars annually. While the retail industry introduced a global standard years ago, the financial services…

Olympia takes Advent Geneva for automated administration

The Olympia Capital Companies, a hedge fund administration service provider with more than $50 billion under administration, has implemented Advent Software's Geneva accounting system and Partner investor servicing platform to automate operations across…

You couldn't make this up

Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…

Trends out of TradeTech

TradeTech, one of the best-attended annual technology gatherings of the year, set out to address a number of current buy-side issues – dark liquidity, best execution, algorithmic trading, transaction cost analysis, Mifid, and the underlying technologies…

Transaction cost analysis – Joel Clark reports that currently only equities are meaningfully supported by the handful of technology vendors active in this space, although TCA support for fixed-income instruments is just around the corner.

Buy-side traders are increasingly asking their employers to make new investments in applications designed to measure transaction cost analysis (TCA). The technology has made big advances in recent years, driven by the global demand for proof of best…

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