Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Three Keynotes You Need to Hear
This week, we’ve been banging on about the lineup for our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit in London next Tuesday, offering a bit of a taster of what to expect from the day’s panel discussions. It’s worth pointing out, though, that we’ve also managed to line up some great keynote presentations from industry people we have...
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: A New Summit Takes Shape
A week after I last chimed in about our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on March 4 – to be reprised in New York on May 13 – our programme is taking shape. What we’ve pulled together is yet another step in our journey from Low Latency infrastructures into the very brave new world of...
Managed Services in the Mainstream – It’s Not Just About Cost Anymore
Are managed services coming of age as providers of front-office trading capabilities? Certainly some of the trends we are seeing suggest they are. It was not so long ago when investment banks and other sell-side trading rooms were able to push the managed services debate into the long-grass, citing control, security and competitive advantage as...
OptionsCity Extends Hosting of Metro and Freeway Trading Platforms to London
OptionsCity has extended the hosting of its Metro electronic trading and market making platform and Freeway multi-asset trading engine to London, taking up residence in both the Interxion data centre in Brick Lane, East London and the NYSE data centre in Basildon, east of London. The company’s arrival in London at the end of last...
Bank Vontobel Selects smartTrade Platform for Foreign Exchange Trading
Bank Vontobel has selected smartTrade Technologies’ hosted LiquidityFX platform to support a new foreign exchange service for spot, forwards and swaps trading. The bank opted for the LiquidityFX solution ahead of other options on the basis of its rich functionality and fast time to market. Urs Bernegger, head of RM and advisory FX/PM at Bank...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Step Right Up! ITS is Coming To Town!
The inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit – successor to A-Team’s acclaimed Low-Latency Summits – kicks off in London on March 4 with an action-packed programme of presentations and panel discussions around the convergence of Analytics, driven by Big Fast Data, to initiate the best trades, executed with Low Latency! We are delighted to welcome as platinum...
Invesco Implements Portware Enterprise for Multi-Asset Trade Automation
Invesco is replacing a number of vendor execution management systems (EMS) with Portware’s Enterprise EMS, which will act as a centralised hub for execution management across all its asset classes. Invesco’s selection of Portware was made after an evaluation of competitive providers that considered not only available products, but also the vendors’ strategies going forward....
Saxo Bank Attracts Early Adopters to its Social Trading Portal
Saxo Bank has opened a portal for social trading on its multi-asset class SaxoTrader platform. Called TradingFloor.com, the portal is open to investors around the world and enables them to share trades, comments and feedback. The portal opened for beta testing late last year and was introduced to the market last week, ahead of full...
Talking Intelligent Trading Technology with Andrew Delaney: Getting Smart About Trading
Welcome to 2014, and the launch in earnest of IntelligentTradingTechnology.com. As of today, I’ll be your host and editor as we explore how the convergence of high-performance technologies for low-latency trading and the emerging hunger for Big Data-type solutions converge to create the kinds of analytics heretofore unavailable to the pre-trade and at-trade environments. I...
Deutsche Bank to Pick Up Mantara Assets
Trading system vendor Mantara has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will see its technology pass to Deutsche Bank, one of its customers. A request to the company’s CEO Michael Chin for further information was not responded to, but it is thought that the company has essentially ceased operations. Mantara sold Catalyst, an extensible desktop...