Trading Tech
Reference Data Hits the Headlines
Since the launch of Inside Reference Data in April last year, I've had little opportunity to keep in touch with my old friends at corporate actions data and software vendor Xcitek and data management provider Asset Control. But both firms graced the…
Tabb: Brace for Spend, Volume Records
Expenditure on technology to keep pace with low-latency trading is likely to be outpaced by market forces, despite a record spend of $1.3 billion per year expected by 2010 on technology to support advanced trading techniques, compared to $789 million…
Kiodex Adds Data, Tools to ASP
Kiodex, SunGard's commodities trading and risk management division, will this week roll out a new version of its ASP-based Risk Workbench, which includes the addition of data on cleared instruments as well as a market data audit function.
Telekurs Grows iD in Germany
Telekurs Financial's browser-based iD market data screens for off-trading floor users has gained further traction among German savings and federal state banks, with a spate of recent deals for the product, say Telekurs officials.
Quant House Partners with TT
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has integrated its QuantFactory trading strategy development framework with technology for market data and exchange gateway access from Chicago-based derivatives software vendor Trading…
The Data Challenges of Valuing Complex Securities
How to value growing numbers of increasingly complex fixed-income securities came under discussion at a panel discussion hosted recently by Standard & Poor's. Panelists debated the data inputs required as well as which models to employ to generate the…
Hitting the Gas
When Exegy and HyperFeed first unveiled the idea of a hardware-accelerated, appliance-based ticker plant at last year's SIA show, it was greeted with a mixture of awe and bewilderment. Some struggled to comprehend the new technology. Others said it…
Boat Enlists Colt, BT for Data Hosting
European trade reporting utility Project Boat has chosen BT Radianz and Colt Telecom to provide connectivity and infrastructure services to host the technology from Swedish software vendor Cinnober that will collect and distribute trade data from Boat's…
Activ Unveils Hardware Ticker Plant
Activ Financial will this week reveal plans to launch a hardware-accelerated ticker plant using new technology from chip manufacturer AMD that Activ says will produce significant improvements in latency and throughput compared with the vendor's existing…