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AT Round Table: Multi Asset Algo
FREE ARTICLEMulti asset execution algorithms have been touted as the next “big thing”. AT asked four major sellside providers for their viewpoint. With: - Tim Wildenberg, Head of Direct Execution Services Europe, UBS - Jeff Wecker, CEO of Townsend Analytics, read this
Technology Workshop: Algo Integration – Can FIX Fix It?
FREE ARTICLEThe FIX Protocol’s provision of a broad set of commonly accepted standards has radically simplified and reduced the cost of financial messaging in capital markets. A relatively recent innovation within FIX has been the work of the Algorithmic Trading W read this
Feature: Is Fixed Income Ready to Hit Algo Street?
FREE ARTICLEFixed income has been long regarded as the Cinderella of algorithmic trading – while equities and then FX would enjoy the ball, fixed income would be left behind. However, while we may still be a long way from a glass slipper scenario, there are now glimm read this
Case Study: Algo Pairs at Investec
FREE ARTICLEInvestec Securities (UK) is a UK institutional equity house offering institutional services across research, sales, sales trading and risk trading. In September 2006, it announced that it had gone live with royalblue’s Fidessa Pairs and VWAP algorithm read this
Exchange Views: ASX - Ramping Up For Algo
FREE ARTICLEIn common with other exchanges around the globe, the ASX has seen algorithmic and automated trading fundamentally change the nature of its order flows. AT talks to David Stocken, Senior Product Manager, Equity Products at the ASX about how the exchange read this
AT Round Table: Algorithmic Trading - Creating real value for the buyside
FREE ARTICLEAs algorithmic trading continues to mature, the buyside is becoming more demanding. Providers are now being judged on a more holistic basis than in the past, with an emphasis on their overall ability to add value. AT talks to five prominent sellside read this
Spotlight: RTD Tango - Cutting to the Chase
FREE ARTICLETools for trade automation have been around for several years. One of the later arrivals at the automation party is RTS Realtime Systems Group, which launched its RTD Tango automated/algorithmic modelling and trade execution platform last year. As read this
Feature: Algo in Asia - Slow Burn or Damp Squib?
FREE ARTICLEWhile adoption of algorithmic trading in Asia is not as advanced as in Europe or the US, there are some indications of intent already emerging. For instance, several major broker dealers have started relocating experienced advanced order execution pe read this
Peek Ahead: DIY Disaster
FREE ARTICLEHow one fund house's attempt to build its own algos proved a rocky road to reality. read this
MarketXS and Apama team to deliver hosted algo trading services
FREE ARTICLEMarketXS, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Progress Apama. The MarketXS - Progress Apama partnership aims to deliver a standard version of Progress Apama's algorithmic trading engine to mid-sized financial institutions, as a funct read this
Aegis Software Extends Algo Trading to Foreign Exchange; Multi-Asset Order Execution Platform Establishes Montage Across Cash FX ECNs
FREE ARTICLEAt the SIA Technology Management Conference, Aegis Software Inc. announced added support for foreign exchange ECNs via its AthenaTrader order execution system for global equities, futures, options and FX. The integration pairs AthenaTrader?s suite of auto read this
Currenex Commences Catalyst Program for Algorithmic and Treasury Management Systems
FREE ARTICLECurrenex announced the participation of third party software providers in a Catalyst Program designed to confer ?Partner? status to those participants meeting and maintaining strict security and integration protocols. Partners, including Algorithmic and T read this
Instinet Launches Wizard PRO Portfolio Optimization Algorithm
FREE ARTICLEFeb 5th 2007 - Instinet, has launched Wizard PRO (Portfolio Risk Optimizer), a new implementation shortfall algorithm that optimizes a portfolio?s trading schedule based on the correlations and natural hedges that exist among the component stocks. Like In read this
Case Study: ABP - à la carte algo
FREE ARTICLEWith an invested capital of 190bn euros, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP - the pension fund for employees in the service of the Dutch government and educational sector - is the second largest pension fund in the world. The fund has been scaling up its equity read this
Strategies: Waiting for the Iceberg
FREE ARTICLEAlgorithmic trading has radically changed trading patterns in capital markets. Transaction volumes have increased and in the equities markets in particular, individual transaction sizes have plummeted. Debbie Williams, Group Vice President of the Capital read this
My Machine: The AT Interview - Algo Reality
FREE ARTICLEInvestment management firm T. Rowe Price, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has more than USD300bn under management. The company has a global presence and in common with other major asset managers uses execution algorithms in its various locations. AT read this
Hedge Fund Back Offices - Sinking or Swimming in the Algo Flood?
FREE ARTICLEHedge funds have been a major factor in the growth of algorithmic trading, but how are they and their prime brokers responding to the impact that algorithmic and automated trading have had on the back office? read this
Catching up with technology: The impact of regulatory changes on ECNs/MTFs Part 2
FREE ARTICLEIn recent years the landscape of trading venues has been transformed by technological advances. New trading concepts and infrastructures along the securities trading value chain have been established. With RegNMS ("Regulation National Market System") in read this
BlueBox opens algo access
FREE ARTICLERoyalblue has launched Fidessa BlueBox, its integrated algorithmic trading platform, in Europe and Asia. The system, based on the Fidessa trading platform, was introduced in the US at the end of last year. read this
Streambase Launches MiFID and Algorithmic Trading Solutions
FREE ARTICLEMar 6 2007 - Global financial services firms demand specialized complex event processing to address unique needs around best execution & regulatory compliance read this
Nomura Securities implements GL Trade front office system
FREE ARTICLEMar 7 2007 - French trading systems vendor GL Trade says Japanese broker Nomura Securities has gone live with its front office technology. read this
Morgan Stanley selects ULLINK’s algo publication solution
FREE ARTICLEApril 18, 2007 - ULLINK, specialist provider of global transactional solutions for the financial community, today announced that Morgan Stanley selected the UL REACH solution to publish algorithms to buy-side clients. read this
Market data connectivity
FREE ARTICLEWith: - David Hann, general manager for EMEA at Interactive Data Real-Time Services - Gregory Smith, CEO at Cicada Corporation - Mark Akass, CTO at BT Radianz - Alasdair Moore, global head of sales at Fixnetix - Guy Tagliavia, president and CEO at Infody read this
Citi Algorithms Now Available through the Lava Sellside Product Suite
FREE ARTICLEApril 19, 2007 - Citi today announced it will make its state-of-the-art equity algorithms available to the sellside through its Lava sellside product. The Lava suite of high-performance trading solutions is widely used by the financial services industry. read this
Allied Testing Launches Interactive Exchange Simulator Algo-Testing Framework
FREE ARTICLEJune 15, 2007 - Allied Testing is pleased to announce the release of its interactive Exchange Simulator for the major European Equities exchanges. read this
LIFFE INTRODUCES NEW TRADE MATCHING ALGORITHM FOR SHORT TERM INTEREST RATE (“STIR”) FUTURES CONTRACTS
FREE ARTICLEJune 28, 2007 - From Monday 20 August 2007 Liffe will introduce a new trade matching algorithm for its Short Term Interest Rate futures contracts. The new algorithm will be implemented for the Three Month Sterling (Short Sterling) Futures on Monday 20th A read this
Algorithmic Traders & Their Impact on the Derivatives World
REGISTERED VIEWERSHaving revolutionised the equity markets, algorithmic trading is already reshaping the derivatives sector. Neal Brady, Director of Products and Services Technology, CME, looks at the technology and infrastructure changes that are fast attracting algorithm read this
Catch Me if You Can
REGISTERED VIEWERSAutomated traders whose strategies depend on speed are turning to ‘true’ direct market access to avoid the latency burden of futures clearers’ pre-trade risk management tools. Chris Hall looks at clearers’ efforts to monitor trading risks without imposin read this
Pennies from Heaven?
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs the SEC’s six-month penny pilot scheme draws to a close in the US options market, Chris Hall reports on the initial impact on different market segments and asks whether decimalisation will open up the market for higher levels of automated and algorit read this
A Global Round Trip
REGISTERED VIEWERSExchanges around the world are investing in new technology and services to attract a greater share of algorithmic and automated trading volumes. Chris Hall takes a whirlwind tour of the exchanges that are pulling out the stops to bring much-needed source read this
Application Latency
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs growing competition places ever greater emphasis on the fine-tuning of automated and algorithmic trading programmes, AT asks leading solutions providers for their views on the tweaks that can minimise application latency and maximise performance. Wi read this
OneMarketData and Wombat Partner to Offer Next Generation of Tick Capture and Analytics
FREE ARTICLESeptember 4, 2007 - Wombat Financial Software, and OneMarketData, today announced a partnership where Wombat will resell and integrate OneTick within Wombat’s high performance market data platform. Traders, analysts and technologists across the capital ma read this
GL TRADE makes the algo world easier for its clients with the launch of SHaPE
FREE ARTICLESeptember 24th, 2007 - GL TRADE has announced the launch of SHaPE, the latest addition to their suite of advanced trading tools delivering the capability to create, test and deploy both standardised and customised algorithms. read this
TABB Group Says Nearly One-Fifth of All Algorithmic Flow is Being Sent through Customised Algorithms
FREE ARTICLESeptember 25th, 2007 – Buy-side use of algorithms is shifting quickly as brokers aggressively deliver an expanding range of customisation services and modularised solutions that allow the buy side to control and manage different electronic trading compone read this
The Smart Money
REGISTERED VIEWERSAs MiFID opens the door to competition between equity trading venues in Europe, Chris Hall looks at how algorithmic trading will adapt to the new era of fragmented liquidity. read this
Baptism by Fire
REGISTERED VIEWERSExtreme volatility in the equity markets made August a testing month for both users of execution algorithms and automated trading strategies. Leading players explain the lessons for the future to Chris Hall. read this
Taming the Tiger
REGISTERED VIEWERSMichael Donahue, managing director of TransMarket Group’s Singapore operations, tells AT how the firm is meeting the challenges of automated trading in the diverse and fast-changing Asian financial markets. read this
Speed to Market
REGISTERED VIEWERSHow is the latest technology accelerating the development and implementation of algorithms and automated trading systems? AT asks leading solutions providers to share their views. read this
Algorithms Where do we (and you) go from here?
FREE ARTICLEA whole industry has developed around algorithmic trading. Connferences, exhibitions, publications carrying articles (not dissimilar to this one) and advertising are but a few of the activities that are providing employment and profits for many. On top read this
Algo transitions
FREE ARTICLEPortfolio transitions are very different from conventional asset management, but the judicious use of algorithms can still be hugely beneficial. Chris Jackson, Director, Execution Sales, Merrill Lynch International explains the nuances of using algorithms read this
Every trader needs an algorithm
FREE ARTICLENew breeds of aggressive algos are being designed for active DMA traders, whilst changes in market structure are making algos essential. read this
OptionsCity introduces OptionsCity Metro - includes auto/algo functionality
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 28th 2008 – OptionsCity is pleased to introduce its OptionsCity Metro system. It is user-friendly, flexible, powerful, and able to execute complex strategies without the need to write scripts. This is a solution that encourages dynamic quoting and read this
NYSE Euronext Expands Tokyo Office - Growing Asia Pacific Presence And Support For Electronic Trading Technology Clients
FREE ARTICLEJanuary 29th 2008 - NYSE Euronext has announced the expansion of its office in Tokyo with the addition of a team from NYSE TransactTools. The company’s new Tokyo presence further establishes NYSE Euronext’s commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, and inves read this
New Horizons for Complex Event Processing
REGISTERED VIEWERSDaniel Chait, Managing Director, Lab49, asserts that CEP has a wide range of applications beyond algo/auto trading. read this
All the News that’s Fit to Trade
REGISTERED VIEWERSNews has been moving financial markets since before Julius Reuter released his first pigeon. Chris Hall asks whether machine-readable news will give traders an edge. read this
The Liquidity Seeker
REGISTERED VIEWERSChris McConville, Executive Director, Equities at UBS Investment Bank, narrates the typical use of a liquidity-seeking algorithm to trade a fictitious investment trust. read this
Buy Side Flocks to FX
REGISTERED VIEWERSAuto and algo trading techniques are being deployed by a wide range of buy-side firms in the increasingly crowded, but not always transparent, waters of the FX market. Chris Hall reports. read this
Rising to the Cross-Asset Challenge
REGISTERED VIEWERSHow are automated traders exploiting cross- and multi-asset trading opportunities and how are suppliers supporting increased demand? These topics and more were discussed by our panel at the FIA’s Expo 2007, Chicago. read this
Hard and Fast?
REGISTERED VIEWERSHardware and networking infrastructures should be the building blocks of any market participant’s algorithmic and automated trading capabilities. AT asks leading providers to share their views on the latest techniques and technologies. read this
A Singular Vision
REGISTERED VIEWERSIts recent merger with the CBOT saw CME Group expand further the range of asset classes available on its Globex platform. Deputy CIO Kevin Kometer looks at the diverse challenges ahead. read this
Proximity Hosting: Plug’n’Trade or Pay’n’Wait?
FREE ARTICLEProximity and trading application hosting have been some of the fastest growing areas in the evolution of automated and algorithmic trading. Mark Thornberry, Managing Director at RTS Realtime Systems, London, discusses some of the main considerations for read this
Hard and Fast?
REGISTERED VIEWERSThis is an extended version of the Tech Forum that appeared in the Q1 2008 edition of Automated Trader. It includes an additional interviewee and expanded answers from all interviewees on the latest techniques for hardware and networking infrastructures. read this
4th Story Releases 4S.Blue Ridge Algo Trading Server
STILL EDITINGApril 14th 2008 - 4th Story, LLC, announced the release of its 4S.Blue Ridge™ algorithmic trading server. Targeted at brokers and other institutions managing order flow, 4S.Blue Ridge makes the development and integration of custom execution and order rou read this
Do Black Swans Swim in Dark Pools?
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSThe continued rise of dark liquidity and the development of more sophisticated execution algorithms could increase regulatory obligations on brokers and/or exchanges, according to Mary Lou Von Kaenel, Managing Director, Management Consulting, Jordan & J read this
Small Cap, Big Challenge
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSSmall and mid cap trade execution is a tough nut to crack. Long ‘dry’ periods, with occasional unexpected patches of liquidity, call for a very different execution style from large caps. Don White, Head of US Equity Product Development at Bloomberg Tradeb read this
MiFID Descends across Europe
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSSix months after its launch, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has begun to stimulate greater competition between trade execution venues, but the fragmentation of liquidity and trade reporting has also caused confusion among buy-side read this
The Multi-Venue FX Algo
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSIan Smith, Director, and Cameron Mouat, Head of AES FX Trading, Credit Suisse, provide an example of how execution algorithms capture liquidity across multiple trading venues in the foreign exchange market. read this
Ready for Take-off?
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSAre today’s order and execution management systems capable of guiding buy-side dealers through an increasingly complex trading environment or will new hybrid solutions emerge? AT asks leading providers to share their views. read this
Morgan’s Mission
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSAs one of the world’s largest fund managers, JPMorgan Asset Management’s trading operations increasingly resemble those of an agency broker. Daemon Bear, Head of Equity Trading, and Kristian West, Head of Trading Strategy, who recently joined from Barclay read this
QuantHouse completes its global proprietary fiber optic network by selecting Equinix datacenters in Chicago and Frankfurt
FREE ARTICLEMay 27th, 2008 - QuantHouse today announced that they have completed the implementation of their worldwide exchange interconnection infrastructure by selecting Equinix datacenters in Chicago and Frankfurt. read this
A basket of abstractions
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYFirst person in the Q3 issue is South Africa-based subscriber Schalk Myburgh, Business Analyst, Nedbank Equity Capital Markets, who shares his experience of automated and algorithmic trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with editor William Essex. read this
Machine versus Man versus Machine?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhat’s the sense in trading the traders? William Essex closes our discussion of commodities with a look at the changing behaviour of the markets themselves. Might the “electronic effect”, and within that a distinct “algo effect&rdq read this
Open Source for Auto/Algo?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYOpen source software has made huge strides in terms of credibility in recent years. So is now the time to consider it for auto/algo trading? Graham Miller, CEO of Marketcetera, definitely thinks so. read this
Only the versatile need apply
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYLegal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has some £300bn in assets under management invested globally. Almost half of this is invested in equities. Mary McCave, LGIM’s senior equity dealer, discusses how LGIM’s trading desk stays o read this
Scalable participation algorithm
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYToby Bayliss, Head of Electronic Execution Sales, Europe at Citi outlines the use of a scalable participation algorithm to trade a substantial order in BP. read this
How do you differentiate your electronic execution services?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhile the recent proliferation of electronic execution services has presented the buyside with an impressive degree of choice, it has simultaneously landed the sellside with several challenges. How do you make your services stand out from the crowd? What read this
It’s decision time
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYBut is that the whole of the problem, that the decision-making process itself adds latency to data? Or are data volumes and the proliferation of trading venues outstripping data vendors’ capacity to deliver in real-enough time? William Essex investi read this
Cicada Appoints Managing Director for MarketPrizm
FREE ARTICLE31st July, 2008 - Cicada to add Nicolas Lévy to its executive team read this
NYSE Floor Brokers Get New Tools
FREE ARTICLEAugust 4th, 2008: The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), is rolling out two new technologies that, respectively, give brokers on the NYSE trading floor the ability to trade algorithmically, and strengthen the brokers' ability read this
Townsend`s RealTick connects to Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading Platform
FREE ARTICLEAugust 21st, 2008 - Townsend Analytics announces connection to Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading (MSET) platform. read this
John Honeyman, J.P.Morgan: algo beyond equities
FREE ARTICLEJohn Honeyman, Electronic Client Solutions Asia, J.P.Morgan profiles the expansion of algorithmic trading from equities into other asset classes in Asia read this
David Rahkit, Intersoft: Japanese algo
FREE ARTICLEDavid Rahkit, CEO of Intersoft talks to Automated Trader's David Clayden about the rapid expansion of algorithmic execution in Japan read this
Scott Caudell, 7Ticks: managed services in Japan
FREE ARTICLEScott Caudell, CTO of 7Ticks, talks about the growth in managed services for auto/algo trading in Japan read this
Fidessa LatentZero leads the way with 20 brokers’ algos
FREE ARTICLEOctober 8th, 2008 - Fidessa LatentZero announces integrated access to algorithms from RBC, Instinet, Knight/EdgeTrade and DnB NOR Capital Markets via Minerva read this