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Content tagged with Infrastructure posted in October 2009
Early Thoughts On SEC Dark Pool Regulation
Commentary  |  10/30/2009  | 
The SEC put forth a series of proposals it believes will enhance transparency, reduce asymmetries, and enhance public confidence in the equity markets but discussing these proposals in advance of releasing them in written form has raised significant confusion in the industry.
Markit to Acquire Loan Settlement System
News  |  10/30/2009  | 
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Launches Brazilian Algos
News  |  10/28/2009  | 
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched its algorithmic trading platform in Brazil.
Lime Brokerage to Offer Marketcetera's Automated Trading Platform
News  |  10/27/2009  | 
Lime will tap Marketcetera's open-source software platform to enable rapid implementation of new equities trading strategies.
Q&A With Bats COO Chris Isaacson — Managing IT for A Growing Exchange
News  |  10/23/2009  | 
Developing proprietary programs, measuring latency, expanding the footprint and meeting the ever-increasing need for speed.
Regulators Urge Financial Firms to Get Risk Data in Order
News  |  10/22/2009  | 
Mergers and acquisitions have created for many firms a hodgepodge of databases that need to be integrated and normalized, a report finds.
Fidelity Launches New Online Platform For Foreign Stocks and Currency Exchanges
News  |  10/22/2009  | 
New platform expands capabilities for retail investors, broker-dealers and advisers to trade international stocks and exchange foreign currencies.
SR Labs Launches Hosted Market Data Feed Handler
News  |  10/20/2009  | 
Teams up with Options IT to power the new market data offering aimed at high frequency trading environments.
IBM Debuts Virtualization Manager for Data Centers
News  |  10/20/2009  | 
VMControl said to help manage environments with disparate virtual machines and hardware.
Hudson Bay Capital Deploys Sophis Solution
News  |  10/19/2009  | 
Hudson Bay Capital, a New York-based hedge fund, has selected Sophis Value to support trading across multiple asset classes.
Chi-X Europe Launches Chi-Velocity
News  |  10/19/2009  | 
Chi-X Europe has launched Chi-Velocity, a proximity-hosted risk management software layer co-located next to the Chi-X Europe primary matching engine that enables trading participant firms to offer ultra-low latency sponsored DMA to their clients.
NYC Brokerage Pressprich Grows Its Use of Hosted Apps
News  |  10/16/2009  | 
Using Codestreet's hosted trading platform for its bread and butter, fixed income securities, and to quickly get into equities; working with the vendor to develop a way to post research through Bloomberg.
Oslo Bors to Launch Derivatives Marketplace
News  |  10/16/2009  | 
Oslo Bors has announced it will establish Oslo Connect, a new regulated marketplace for trading over the counter derivatives.
Eze Castle Rolls Out Hosted CRM for Hedge Funds
News  |  10/15/2009  | 
Hosting and customizing NetAge's Dynamo software for hedge fund clients.
Mid East I Bank Depoys Fidessa
News  |  10/15/2009  | 
Middle East investment bank, EFG Hermes, joings Fidessa’s network.
Mismi Selects OneTick Data Management Solution
News  |  10/15/2009  | 
Mismi, a call-market crossing solution scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter, has licensed OneMarketData’s OneTick Database for data management, analytics and complex event processing.
Platform's Grid Software Moves Processes Closer to Data Sources
News  |  10/14/2009  | 
Symphony 5 said to come with faster data access and the ability to improve server utilization.
DTCC To Relocate to New Jersey
News  |  10/14/2009  | 
DTCC plans to relocated a significant portion of Northeast staff to New Jersey.
Panelists Sound Off On High Frequency Trading at Thomson Reuters Event
News  |  10/13/2009  | 
Poll found that over 70 percent of buy-and sell-side attendees felt regulators are behind the curve in understanding implications of HFT.
SunGard Provides Solution for Moroccan Securities Industry
News  |  10/13/2009  | 
SunGard has enhanced GL RIMS to provide a solution for the Moroccan Securities Industry.
R.W. Pressprich Invests in CodeStreet
News  |  10/13/2009  | 
Fixed-income broker-dealer uses CodeStreet's Teamwork hosted service for fixed income sales and trading, and wants to help firm expand into broad array of asset classes.
Charles River Opens China Office
News  |  10/13/2009  | 
Charles River Development has opened a regional office in Beijing, China to better service its local clients.
ConvergEx To Acquire Cogent Consulting After Collapse of Consortium Deal
News  |  10/8/2009  | 
Cogent''s research valuation and broker vote software are a natural fit with ConvergEx's commission management business.
Nomura First Broker to Offered Sponsored Access to BATS Europe
News  |  10/8/2009  | 
Nomura will now be providing clients with direct access to the BATS Europe Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).
Neuberger Berman Picks Switch and Data Site
News  |  10/8/2009  | 
Global asset manager will house critical operations infrastructure in Switch and Data's northeastern U.S. site.
Manhattan Bank Data Center Wins NYSERDA Rebate
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
Incentive pays half the cost of a new cooling system that's expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 200,000 kilowatt hours in the first year.
Electronic Trading Today: New Requirements for an Increasingly Complex Global Marketplace
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
Electronic Trading Today: New Requirements for an Increasingly Complex Global Marketplace
Goldman Sachs Sets Gold Standard for IT Innovation
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
By focusing on in-house development capabilities and a culture of collaboration, Goldman Sachs has built outstanding risk management and algorithmic trading products.
54% of CIOs Forbid Use of Social Networks at Their Companies
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
Less than 20% allow social networking for business purposes.
SunGard Offers New Risk Reporting to Asset Managers
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
SunGard extends asset arena offering to provide risk management and consulting services.
Chi-X Canada and IFS Introduce Historical Data Service
News  |  10/7/2009  | 
Chi-X Canada and IFS Introduce Historical Data Service
Correlsense Offers Latency Monitoring Free for A Year
News  |  10/6/2009  | 
SharePath Real User Monitoring said to track transaction times and identify bottlenecks.
NYSE Euronext Innovates at Warp Speed
News  |  10/6/2009  | 
NYSE Euronext and CIO Steve Rubinow are focused on doing things faster, including communication, development and, of course, competing in the low-latency trading arena.
Morgan Stanley Aims for the Clouds
News  |  10/6/2009  | 
David Reilly, CIO of Enterprise Infrastructure, heads Morgan Stanley's industry-leading cloud and virtualization initiatives. He's not afraid to rely on vendors for substantial chunks of these and other projects.
JPMorgan Chase Opens Tech Center at Syracuse University
News  |  10/6/2009  | 
Students and faculty will work with bank employees conducting research and running the bank's global technology operations, hundreds of jobs will be created in the upstate New York area.
Cosmos Technologies Launches Data Warehouse Toolkit for Hedge Funds
News  |  10/6/2009  | 
Data warehouse toolkiit delivers middle-office functions for a complex multi-strategy, multi-counterparty and multi-asset environment.
Thomson Reuters and Savvis Offer Hosted Low Latency Platform
News  |  10/5/2009  | 
Savvis proximity hosting to underpin global low latency offering.
Adobe's New App Development Tools Suited to Broker Workstations
News  |  10/5/2009  | 
Latest version of LiveCycle lets developers quickly build browser based applications; one large financial firm is using it to build a new broker workstation.
LSE In Talks to Buy Turquoise
News  |  10/1/2009  | 
According to reports, the London Stock Exchange is in exclusive talks to purchase Turquoise Trading, the pan-European equity alternative trading system backed by a consortium of nine investment banks.
NYSE Euronext Appoints IBM Veteran Dominic Cerutti as Deputy CEO
News  |  10/1/2009  | 
NYSE Euronext taps Cerutti as both deputy CEO and global head of technology, also overseeing its competitive position in Europe.


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