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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…
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…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Feeling the Collars of the Libor Traders
Financial institutions are bracing themselves for further regulatory clampdown on market pricing on the wake of the LIBOR and FX market manipulation scandals. As regulators draft new guidelines for benchmark data contributions, and UK Chancellor George Osborne signals increased scrutiny of the London FX market’s pricing procedures, data managers and compliance officers are assessing their…
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…
Fidessa Responds to Demand for a Consolidated Trading Platform
Fidessa has responded to ongoing client demand for consolidated trading platforms that reduce total cost of ownership and increase efficiency with the addition of US Treasuries to its global futures and options platform, and connectivity to BrokerTec and Nasdaq OMX eSpeed. The addition of US Treasuries to the derivatives platform takes the company into fixed…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing Intelligent Trading Architecture
Intelligent trading architecture is emerging as technology developments support a move beyond trading systems based purely on speed and allow a focus on fast yet more intelligent solutions. The challenges and opportunities of implementing an intelligent trading architecture were discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York, where conference chair Pete…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s Time to Buy and Build
As we put the last-minute touches on our agenda for next week’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York – register here if you haven’t already – we continue to canvass the marketplace on what makes a trading platform intelligent. Part of the story, we are finding, is in approach to design. And the message we…
Opinion: Will New Liquidity Reporting Lead to a Big Chill?
By Georges Bory, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Quartet FS The collapse and bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 is an extreme example of what can happen when the ratio of liquidity holdings to potential debt is inadequate. The bank was hit with a liquidity crisis as a result of the collapse in the sub-prime mortgage…
Etrali introduces Check Suite to Support Compliance with FCA and CFTC Rules on Call Recording
Etrali Trading Solutions has pulled together functionality it offers around the recording, storing and retrieval of traders’ voice calls to deliver Etrali Check Suite, a solution designed to help firms maintain compliance on the trading floor. The company previously provided on-site engineer checks of recording solutions as part of a managed service, but has packaged…
Lab49 Describes Development of UBS Neo Cross-Asset Platform
Lab49, a strategy, design and software development consultancy working with investment banks, asset managers and exchanges, has detailed its involvement in the creation of UBS’s Neo cross-asset platform, which is designed to provide access to all UBS Investment Bank products and services, and includes social web technologies and mobile access. The consultancy’s involvement as a…