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How Trading Operations Changes Both Cut and Inflate Costs

Even as fixed-income trading operations technology makes up its lag behind equities trading technology, the overall costs in trading operations are likely to increase, causing investment firms to have to pay more, according to panelists who will be considering “Trading in the new normal environment” at the Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on June...

How ‘Deep Learning’ Could Make A Deep Impact On Trading

As a machine learning technique, “deep learning” has evolved enough to be useful for trading operations, according to Elliot Noma, managing director at Garret Asset Management. Noma will be moderating a panel on the uses and limitations of the technique, at the Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on June 8. Deep learning expands on...

NovaSparks Gets Last Missing US Market Data Feed

Field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data services provider NovaSparks has completed its array of supported feeds with the addition of the Securities Information Processors (SIP) feed, according to Olivier Baetz, chief operating officer of the company. NovaSparks now supports direct feeds for all 12 US equity protected markets — the SIP feed was the...

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...

xCelor, CIARA Pair Servers and Market Data Feeds

Low-latency trading solutions provider xCelor has partnered with high-frequency trading technology server company CIARA to integrate xCelor market data feed handlers with CIARA Orion HFT servers. The partnership and the integrated technologies, which are live in production, provide low-latency trading to user firms so that they need not spend resources on IT engineering to achieve...

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...

Santander Picks Opus Platform To Ensure Compliance

Santander UK has deployed the Hiperos 3PM third-party risk management platform from Opus, a London-based compliance solutions provider, to ensure the bank’s compliance with UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidelines, according to Ben Gould, managing director of EMEA & APAC at Opus. “Santander executives were interested in becoming fully compliant with FCA guidelines for managing...

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...

‘Multi-Genre Analytics’ Emerges For Pre-Trade Assessments

Data analytics provider Teradata has developed a new type of algorithmic analytics applicable to securities trading information, called “multi-genre analytics.” Teradata developed the service in response to firms seeing predictive models as a cost they get stuck with when those models are needed for certain kinds of trades, says Sri Raghavan, global product marketing manager....

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...