Trading floor technologies
Thomas Weisel Deploys Pivot
SAN FRANCISCO-Investment banking firm Thomas Weisel Partners is in the midst of a global and enterprise-wide rollout of the Pivot 360° secure instant messaging platform, vendor officials announced today, March 31.
ODL Capital Deploys Fixcity's Ioinet
LONDON-Institutional brokerage ODL Capital (ODLC) has gone live with Fixcity's indication-of-interest (IoI) distribution platform Ioinet, say vendor officials.
Microsoft Integrates Turrets
LONDON-Global software and technology provider Microsoft announced today, March 17, the launch of its Institutional Client Platform (ICP) that enables firms to integrate their entire communication infrastructure including instant messaging (IM), e-mail…
Centralized Order Books Take Hit Under Mifid
LONDON-Reconstructing a centralized order book in a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) environment is proving a serious challenge for many investment banks, according to research by Mifid think tank JWG-IT, which will be released in April.
Skyler Enters European Markets
CONCORD, CALIF.-Low-latency trading products provider Skyler Technology announced today, March 10, that it has expanded the latest version of its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution product to cover the European markets.
Schneider Adopts VoIP Turrets
LONDON-Execution broker Schneider Trading Associates has replaced its legacy hardwired Reuters dealerboards with Voice over IP (VoIP)-enabled turrets from Belgian turret vendor IP Trade, DWT has learned.
Carbon Market Yet to Attract Algo Trading
LONDON-Carbon's position as a global asset class will continue to expand as carbon markets grow; however, it is not liquid enough to draw black-box traders, say European Climate Exchange (ECX) officials.
RTS Plans Century Mark
FRANKFURT-Trading software vendor RTS Realtime Systems Group plans to connect to more than 100 exchanges by June, DWT has learned.
BNP Paribas Upgrades Tokyo Floor
TOKYO-BNP Paribas in Tokyo is live on an upgraded trading floor that includes a new business continuity solution from Orange Business Services (OBS), nee Etrali, according to vendor officials.
Mitsubishi Takes BlueBox Algos Live
TOKYO & LONDON-Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (MUS) has completed the initial phase of its algorithmic execution service based on Fidessa's algorithmic trading platform, BlueBox, vendor officials say.
Credit Suisse Expands FX Algos
LONDON-Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse plans to expand its trading algorithm offering in the near future, according to bank officials.
SunGard Preps First Infinity Client
NEW YORK-Financial services platform provider SunGard is on the cusp of signing its first deal with a large unnamed investment bank for its Infinity Process Platform, vendor officials tell DWT .
Exchange Axis Preps Smart Routing ASP
LONDON-Industry startup Exchange Axis plans to provide hosted smart order routing for firms looking to aggregate data from and intelligently route orders to multiple trading venues, DWT has learned.
29West Updates UME
CHICAGO-Market data messaging software provider 29West released version 2.0 of its Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise (UME) last week.
Triton Makes Asian Debut
HONG KONG-Agency broker-dealer and block-crossing network provider Investment Technology Group (ITG) has recently rolled out its Triton execution management system (EMS) to the Asia-Pacific regional markets.
AFA to Add Non-U.S. Equities
NEW YORK-In part to capture more institutional business, order management system (OMS) provider Advanced Financial Applications (AFA) expects to support non-U.S. equities by the end of the first quarter, according to vendor officials.
NYSE Euronext to Debut Trading Algos
NEW YORK-Global exchange operator NYSE Euronext plans to release a set of vanilla trading algorithms, along with an algorithm development toolkit sometime in mid-2008 through its services and products business, NYSE TransactTools, DWT has learned.
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.
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.
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…
Fidessa to Launch Next-Gen Trading Algos
NEW YORK-Order management system (OMS) and market connectivity provider Fidessa plans to release a new suite of advanced trading algorithms for the U.S. markets, dubbed BlueBox Execution Strategies, in the coming weeks, Fidessa officials tell DWT .
Orc Software Readies Canned Strategies
NEW YORK-Orc Software plans to release its Orc Liquidator product to a broader set of firms by offering the algorithmic trading engine with pre-packaged strategies in the first quarter of 2008 with a Chicago-headquartered client receiving the first auto…
Dresdner Kleinwort Integrates Trade Ideas
LONDON-Users of Dresdner Kleinwort's research and analytic portal can now receive trade ideas for firm officials since the bank integrated its centralized trade idea distribution platform from vendor youDevise with its proprietary Web-based research…
UBS to Expand European Smart Routing
LONDON-Global broker-dealer UBS Investment Bank plans to expand its recently debuted smart order routing in Europe to other asset classes, including exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs), officials tell DWT .