Ullink Builds Out its Connectivity and Trading Solutions Business under the Auspices of Interim CEO Bertrand Sciard
Ullink is building out its connectivity and electronic trading solutions business on the back of last year’s acquisition of NYFIX and its ability to meet growing market demand for managed services. At the helm is interim CEO Bertrand Sciard, who joined the company from Ullink’s private equity investor HgCapital when Ullink founder Laurent Useldinger stepped...
Tradition Integrates Azul Zing to Increase Trading Predictability and Performance
Tradition, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has integrated Azul Systems’ Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) into its high performance trading platforms to deliver predictable, high throughput and low latency execution. The company also expects the adoption of Zing to free up developer time that will be used to pursue new revenue streams....
Cinnober Proposes a Quality Standard for Financial Systems and Software
Cinnober Financial Technology has initiated a campaign aimed at setting up an industry organisation that will drive a quality standard across financial systems and software. The campaign is based on a draft quality standard proposed by Cinnober, the Financial IT Quality Assessment (FIQA), which is designed to provide transparency around the quality and cost of...
Bloomberg Integrates EMSX with Exane BNP Paribas Feedback Channel to Increase Algo Trading Transparency
Bloomberg has increased transparency around trading algorithms provided by Exane BNP Paribas by integrating access to the investment company’s Order Status Update feedback channel, which gives European equities traders insight into the algos, with its EMSX execution management system. The integration builds on Bloomberg’s use of Tag 30 FIX protocol messages to show algo traders...
RiverRock Uses Horizon Automated Trader to Develop Algo Trading Strategies
Alternative investment firm RiverRock is up and running with Horizon Software’s Automated Trader solution that offers an out-of-the-box low latency and high frequency trading platform, as well as a flexible development environment that RiverRock is using to develop proprietary algorithmic trading strategies. The firm previously built algo trading strategies manually and went to market with...
Quotix and Celer Technologies Implement Azul Systems’ Zing JVM
Azul Systems continues to build its direct and third-party customer bases with recent wins for its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) at Quotix, a provider of intelligent trade execution and management for the foreign exchange market, and Celer Technologies, a provider of adaptable high performance trading platforms. Quotix selected Zing to support and optimise the...
Codestreet Plans Expansion Post Venture Capital Investment
Codestreet, a provider of fixed income liquidity discovery and matching solutions, is planning to expand its product portfolio and extend its geographic reach following minority investments from venture capital firms Cerium Technology and Rochester Advisors. Codestreet’s flagship product is Teamwork, a software-as-a-service solution that exploits the network across a fixed income trading desk to expose...
Orc Sets Out Technology Integration Plans After Taking Ownership of Tbricks
Orc plans to integrate Tbricks’ technology, customers and employees into its derivatives trading technology business following an agreement by its owner Cidron Delfi Intressenter Holding, a company controlled by Nordic Capital, to acquire 100% of the shares in Tbricks. No financial details of the deal were disclosed, but it includes the transfer of ownership of...
DataStax and Azul Partnership Delivers High-Performance Enterprise Version of Cassandra
DataStax, provider of an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra distributed database, has partnered with Azul Systems, provider of the Zing Java virtual machine (JVM). The partnership allows DataStax to provide its customers with a combined technology platform on which to build low-latency data management solutions for applications that require increasing amounts of in-memory data...
McObject Improves Performance of eXtremeDB Financial Edition and Eases Development with Version 6.0
McObject, a provider of low latency, high performance database management technologies, will release eXtremeDB Financial Edition version 6.0 today. The new version is a major upgrade including support for big data management for capital markets analytics and access to the database’s vector-based statistical functions using SQL and Python. Version 6.0 of eXtremeDB Financial Edition has...