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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…
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…
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…
How to Ensure the Integrity of Your Contributions Data
Do you worry about the validity and integrity of the data you contribute either to benchmarks like Libor or indexes, or to markets like the exchange-like Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)? Or about the quality of the data you are selling to clients? With a marketplace growing in complexity, and more and more rules coming from…
Opinion: Piecing Together the Data Scientist Puzzle
By Dev Bhudia, Vice President, Product Management, GoldenSource Depending on whom you speak to, the definition of a data scientist seems to mean different things to different people. Some see it as a glorified number crunching role, while others believe the position requires someone more inquisitive to spot and respond to key trends. The role…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Can Colt Grow Into a Cap Markets Stallion?
Colt’s creation of a dedicated capital markets team that integrates its now wholly owned MarketPrizm unit with its own hosting and connectivity offerings – announced last week – is a perhaps overdue logical next step in its acquisition of MarketPrizm, which was spun out of the former Cicada Cos. MarketPrizm became 100% owned by Colt…
Exegy Sets out Development Plans for Hardware Accelerated Appliances
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated appliances, has detailed product developments it will release later this year including a faster, feature-rich Java applications programming interface (API), improved integration of the company’s managed services infrastructure with Thomson Reuters’ Data Access Control System (DACS), and a fourth generation of the Exegy platform. These additions follow the release…
ICE Starts Break-Up of NYSE Technologies with Sale of Fixnetix Stake, Wombat and SuperFeed
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has started to break up NYSE Technologies and sell some of its business units following the acquisition of the technology business and its parent NSYE Euronext in November 2013. The first sale was made last month, when ICE sold the 25% holding in London-based Fixnetix that NYSE Technologies acquired in February 2012…
CQG Develops Big Data Visualisation Application
Financial software solutions provider CQG has developed a big data visualisation desktop application that gathers financial market data and applies it to support intelligent trading decisions. The application uses the swing trading methodology to interpret a variety of charts and graphs that can be used to provide competitive insights for trading. Swing trading looks at…
ING Bank Improves Communication with MDXT Data Sharing Solution
MDX Technology (MDXT), a market data connectivity specialist and provider of an enterprise data sharing solution, has signed up ING Bank as its twelfth European customer and is building out its business in the US and Asia ahead of a move into South America. ING Bank selected MDXT’s Connect enterprise data sharing solution to improve…