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What Ails Us About High Frequency Trading?
Themis Trading's Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi sound off on three aspects of high frequency trading that are problematic.
Software Polices Employees' Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Posts
Applies the same content monitoring, archiving rules to social networks as cover email and instant messaging.
Asset Management Firm Moving Apps to the Cloud
It started simply with Salesforce CRM, but Transparent Value has ambitious plans to move more applications to Salesforce's cloud.
Diane Schueneman Joins Capco's Board
As the former head of Merrill Lynch's Global Infrastructure Solutions group, Schueneman oversaw 16,000 employees in technology, infrastructure, client services and operations.
Patsystems Licenses Software to Brazilian Broker Flow Corretora
Patystems will provide Flow with complete a OMS, including direct market access to BM&F, the derivatives market, and risk management.
OpTier Monitors App Performance from Customers' Point of View
Monitoring software positioned near a customer site tells you how well your applications are working there.
U.K. IT Group Launches Green IT Certification
Brits plan to take their three-day course in green IT around the world.
TradeStation Launches Prime Brokerage Services
TradeStation launches prime brokerage division to capitalize on growing need of small and mid-sized hedge funds and investment advisers
Bloomberg Uses GPUs to Speed Up Bond Pricing
Two-factor model for calculating hard-to-price asset-backed securities now runs on graphics processing units paired with Linux servers.
Russia's Markets Making A Comeback
But challenges remain to doing business in the former Soviet Union, says Josef Schroeter, president of CQG.
TradingScreen Launches TradeSmart X
The new TradeSmart X integrates into a single interface major functionality enhancements for liquidity access; execution management; cross-asset class trading and reporting delivered with a new look and feel.
Samsung Securities Live on Fidessa Asian Trading Platform
Samsung Securities Company has gone live with Fidessa’s Asian trading platform for its new Asian investment banking operations in Hong Kong.
Six Ways to Cut Your Data Center Energy Bill
The best and least disruptive way is to retool cooling, according to Adam Fairbanks at Bluestone Energy.
Tradar Releases Version 3.2 of Insight Platform
New version of Tradar's portfolio management and accounting platform improves STP, automates NAV process and includes FIX drop copies.
Chi-X Canada Direct ATS Data Feed Connects To Bloomberg
Chi-X Canada ATS Limited has connected its direct market data feed (CHIXMD) to the Bloomberg Professional service enabling the streaming of real-time quote data for Bloomberg users.
Options IT Acquires Colo Biz from BNP Paribas
Options IT Acquires Colo Biz from BNP Paribas
Chi-X Europe and Liquidnet Supernatural to Interconnect
The collaboration between Chi-X Europe and Liquidnet Supernatural is expected to enhance liquidity discovery opportunities for clients of both firms by bringing together liquidity sources whilst allowing anonymous trading with minimal market impact.
BNP Paribas Sells Collocation Business to Options IT
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT picks up new U.S. hedge fund clients, three data centers and two regional offices.
Electronic Trading in India
India's debt markets have experienced rapid growth and along with that electronic trading also risen sharply, with the market growing at a CAGR over 75% since 2005.
Chi-X Chooses IBM for High-Speed Messaging
Does software-based messaging beat hardware-based messaging? This European exchange and the designer of the IBM system both think so.
Q&A: Madge Meyer, State Street’s EVP, IT Global Infrastructure Services
Meyer tells about the private cloud State Street is building, its zero footprint and its follow-the-sun global IT model.
ITG Selects Asset Control
ITG selects Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform to support asset growth initiatives.
How Barclays Chose Its Messaging Middleware
Stephen Neal, director of middleware at Barclays, shared a glimpse of his middleware selection process this morning at a High Performance Computing on Wall Street show.
SuperDerivatives, Calypso Link Systems
SuperDerivatives, Calypso together focus on cost control, risk management and workflow in OTC markets.
Turquoise to Begin Depositary Receipt Trading
Turquoise announced it will begin trading in depositary receipts this October.
Kx Offers Nanosecond Timestamps in Updated Database
Ability to track trades in billionths of a second should be useful in high frequency trading.
Fidessa Expands Latin American Reach
Fidessa adds leading Mexican broker Casa de Bolsa Finamex, S.A. Bursatil de C.V. (Finamex) to its FIX connectivity network.
State of the Merrill/BofA Union
According to Merrill wealth management executives the merger with Bank of America is exceeding expectations.
Bloomberg Tradebook Modifies Algorithms for Japan's Special Quote Days
Tradebook adjusted algos so they can participate in SQ Days which coincide with expiration of stock index futures and options and vollume spikes.
How Blade Plans to Best Cisco on the Street
Blade's ox beats Cisco's 1,000 chickens, CEO Vikram Mehta says, claiming Blade offers lower latency, lower power draw and lower prices.
Chi-Tech Selects FTEN's Risk Controls for Pan-European Trading Service
Chi-Tech integrates FTEN into MarketPrizm offering to provide risk management as hi-fi trading grows in Europe.
ITRS Adds Visualization to IT Monitoring Software
Shows all the IT that lurks behind the scenes of a trading environment.
QUOTE MTF Began Trading with 10 French Stocks
The latest European MTF is promoting a "no-frills business model" with its headquarters in Hungary.
Clearing House LCH to Use BT’s Radianz Network
Some members were already using the IP-based networking, now it will support European central counterparty clearing.
IBM, Omaha College to Offer Green IT Degree
Big Blue and Metropolitan Community College to turn out techies who can design energy efficient data centers.
Pyxis Mobile Extends App Framework to iPhones
Platform to support writing an app once and delivering it to BlackBerrys, iPhones and Windows smart phones. Concur has already ported its expense report software to the three devices using this software.
Derivix Strikes Strategic Alliance with ConvergEx's LiquidPoint
Options analytics provider will offer institutions access to LiquidPoint's derivatives execution and routing technologies.
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