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Trading Execution Concerns Shift From Latency To Proactivity

The ground on which market participants walk is shifting from a foundation of latency and performance concerns to a playing field where being proactive is their best asset, according to trading technology experts who spoke in a webinar hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology on June 1.

Portware AI System Growth Leading To ‘Bionic’ Trading

Building on the expansion of its Alpha Pro artificial intelligence agent for trading, begun in November, trade execution management system (EMS) provider Portware is moving toward what its CEO, Alfred Eskandar, calls a “bionic trading desk.” From March 2009 to March 2017, Portware’s Alpha Pro technology has delivered 133 basis points in return on micro...

Rival Systems Extends Reach Into Equities

Trading and risk management software provider Rival Systems’ partnership with the Lime Brokerage unit of Wedbush extends Rival Systems’ reach beyond its core constituency in futures and options, into equities trading in US markets and dark pools, according to Robert D’Arco, CEO, Rival Systems. Lime Brokerage and Rival Systems have launched an integrated service combining...

Fixed-Income Trading Operations Catch Up

Fixed-income trading operations may be as much as 15 years behind equities trading operations, but they are catching up quickly, according to executives in the field who spoke at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in New York on April 26. “All the advancements in technology, the transfer of information and the execution of...

Buy-Side Automation Of Trade Orders Rises

Metori Capital Management’s selection of QuantHouse’s QuantFACTORY algorithmic trading development framework represents the beginning of buy-side firms automating trade order execution based on a portfolio manager’s conceived strategy, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer of QuantHouse. While sell-side firms have already had automated trade execution based on pre-set strategies in place...

Do Traders Dream Of Hologram Interfaces? FlexTrade Thinks So.

Capitalising on Microsoft’s augmented reality HoloLens product, which was first made available to technology developers in March 2016, FlexTrade Systems, a trade execution and order management systems provider, has developed augmented reality trading capability for HoloLens, according to Andy Mahoney, business development director at FlexTrade UK. HoloLens is an altered version of a virtual reality...

Sterling Buy-Side Platform Adds Clearpool Algo Management

Sterling Trading Tech is adding to its Sterling Trader Elite buy-side platform, which offers algorithmic order entry, bringing on Clearpool Group’s Algorithmic Management System, according to Jim Nevotti, president of Sterling Trading Tech. Users of Clearpool’s system will be able to access Sterling algorithmic trading and order management tools. “Clearpool is growing and getting visibility,”...

Inside The Matrix: How Broadway Technology Links Systems Together

Trading complex financial products on behalf of a large enterprise is an elaborate challenge that requires distributed systems working together. Broadway Technology, a provider of middleware serving electronic trading and automated decision-making needs, offers TOC, a platform addressing that problem. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Joshua Walsky, the company’s chief technology officer, about how TOC works, and...

West Coast Hedge Fund Reduces Trade Errors With LiquidityBook

Since San Francisco-based multi-strategy hedge fund Pier 88 Investment Partners implemented LBX Buyside POEMS (Portfolio, Order and Execution Management System) from service provider LiquidityBook in the third quarter of 2016, the fund has eliminated trade errors, gotten greater transparency and enhanced its networking capability. Pier 88’s trade execution and portfolio management has had “very noticeable”...

Outside Partnerships Bolster Trade Execution Infrastructures

Partnership is the most important ingredient for optimising the performance of trading infrastructure and reducing its complexity, say operations executives who spoke at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London on 2nd February. Regulatory compliance issues are gaining on cost and value as the biggest consideration, however, according to the executives. Partnership efforts address the need...