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Fidessa Promotes David Polen to Global Head of Electronic Execution
Fidessa has appointed David Polen as global head of electronic execution with responsibility for developing the company’s platform and electronic execution capabilities across global markets. Reporting to Mark Ames, global head of sell side services, Polen will deliver a range of managed solutions that will allow brokers to present their clients with intelligent and cost-effective…
DST Enhances Anova Position Keeping to Deliver IBOR Product
DST has enhanced the position keeping element of its Anova post-trade data management, analytics and reporting suite to deliver a fully-fledged investment book of record (IBOR) designed to provide asset managers with near real-time visibility of positions and valuations. Anova has included the capability to consume transactions and events, and provide continuously updated valuations and…
GFT Technologies Acquires Rule Financial
Stuttgart-based GFT Technologies has reached agreement to acquire London-based IT consultancy and services provider Rule Financial. Details of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but it will significantly strengthen GFT Group’s presence in the UK and US investment banking markets, and add employees and revenue. Rule Financial includes nine of the world’s top 10 leading…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys
In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been…
Bloomberg Extends Vault with File Analytics for Dark Data
Bloomberg has added File Analytics to its Vault enterprise information management service with a view to helping organisations locate and manage dark data held in files and documents. The company defines dark data as ‘unstructured, untapped data that is held by organisations, which has not been analysed or processed’, and says users of the Vault…
Gilbert Dupont Extends Use of SunGard Valdi Market Access to Reach Turquoise and Equiduct
Société de Bourse Gilbert Dupont is building on its relationship with SunGard and its use of the company’s Valdi Market Access software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to extend its reach to Turquoise, the London Stock Exchange’s pan-European multilateral trading facility. Gilbert Dupont, a specialist in small and mid-sized company research and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Crédit…
Oversight Committee of the Global LEI System Moves Common Data File Forward
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has published the second part of a common data file format for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs). This follows the introduction in February 2014 of a first common data file format for pre-LOUs to use in publishing LEI data or communicating with other…
Vulpes Cuts Costs with Markit’s Expanded Portfolio Valuations Service
Vulpes Investment Management has increased data accuracy and decreased vendor and technology costs by deploying valuations, risk and straight-through-processing (STP) provided by Markit. The Singapore-based investment manager was using different vendor systems to support portfolio management, execution, evaluation and risk across asset classes including exchange traded derivatives, private equity and illiquid debt holdings, but wanted…
Options Completes Expansion of Velocity IaaS to Mahwah Data Centre
Options has completed the expansion of its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) trading platform to the NYSE colocation facility in Mahwah, New Jersey. With this development, Options’ clients will not only benefit from exchange colocation to access a wide variety of dark and lit markets across the US, but also from low-latency trading strategies that could improve…
Argon Design Delivers Ultra-Low Latency Trading System to Prop Shop
Argon Design, a Cambridge, UK-based engineering design consultancy, has developed an ultra-low latency financial trading system for a proprietary trading firm doing latency arbitrage on a leading exchange in the US. The system went live in May and builds on Argon’s September 2013 introduction of high-performance trading technology that combines the benefits of field programmable…