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Bank of America prepares for algorithmic FX trading with Financial Labs acquisition
FREE ARTICLE Bank of America has acquired Financial Labs, a trading firm specialising in algorithm-driven FX pricing and trading in foreign exchange, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which includes Financial Labs' team of mathematicians and astrophysicists, wa read this
Lava Announces Major Enhancements to Sell-Side Products
FREE ARTICLE Lava Trading Inc. today announced the completion of significant enhancements to its sell-side products, including the Lava ColorBook(R) system and Lava Trading Floor(R). The updates to ColorBook, Lava Trading Floor and other products reflect the continual read this
Jack Vensel named EVP of Sales and Marketing at Automated Trading Desk
FREE ARTICLE Automated Trading Desk, LLC (ATD) today announced the appointment of Jack Vensel as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He will be responsible for developing and managing sell-side sales and consolidated marketing efforts for ATD's operations read this
Digipede and 4th Story Join Forces to Grid-Enable Financial Software
FREE ARTICLE Digipede Technologies and 4th Story announced today that 4th Story has integrated its trading strategy analytics with the Digipede Network? for increased scalability and performance. By Digipede-enabling its advanced trading analytics applications, 4th St read this
MAREX Financial picks FXall
FREE ARTICLE FXall has been selected by MAREX Financial, a firm authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, to provide foreign exchange liquidity and trading services to its clients read this
ASX to introduce FIX standard to market data services
FREE ARTICLE The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) will introduce low-latency market data services in 2006, based on the FIX (financial information exchange) protocol. ASX has selected the CameronFIX Market Data Server platform to support these new market data services, read this
GISSING SOFTWARE LAUNCHES GISSING REALTIMEXL VERSION 3.0
FREE ARTICLE Gissing Software, has announced the immediate availability of Gissing RealtimeXL 3.0, its high performance Microsoft Excel add-in. read this
Dow Jones Announces News and Archives for Algorithmic Applications
FREE ARTICLE Dow Jones Newswires today announced the launch of Dow Jones News and Archives for Algorithmic Applications. The new solution enables banks, securities firms and hedge funds to incorporate Dow Jones news into their quantitative models and computerised trad read this
InfoDyne Announces TPS+Plus Trials of Bloomberg?s B-Pipe
FREE ARTICLE InfoDyne Corporation today announced trials of Bloomberg?s B-Pipe with several customers. Following 18 months of development, testing and product packaging the completed product offering is now being tested with several customers in the US and Europe. The read this
Elkins/McSherry Analysis Reveals Edgetrade?s VWAP Algorithm Outperforms 93% Of Large Institutions in Universe Comparison
FREE ARTICLE EdgeTrade today announced results of a recent Elkins/McSherry analysis that showed EdgeTrade?s VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price) algorithm, including market impact and commissions, outperformed 93% of a universe of large, billion dollar institutions du read this
Rob Flatley Joins Deutsche Bank as Head of Global Electronic Execution
FREE ARTICLE Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. has announced that Rob Flatley has joined the firm as a Managing Director and Head of Global Electronic Execution for the Equity asset class. Flatley will be based in New York, reporting to Jon Hitchon, Head of Global Prime S read this
BT Radianz Extranet Adds 40 Countries
FREE ARTICLE BT Radianz has announced Extended Reach, a program that will extend its frame relay network from the current 20 countries into about 40 more in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The announcement underscores how electronic trading is poised to grow read this
Reuters and CME to Create FXMarketSpace
FREE ARTICLE Reuters and the CME today announced plans to create FXMarketSpace, the world?s first centrally-cleared, global foreign exchange (FX) marketplace, through a new 50/50 joint venture company. Through the joint venture, CME and Reuters will pool their expe read this
ClariVest Live in Three Weeks; Taps Charles River for Comprehensive, Fund Management Software and Service Solution
FREE ARTICLE Charles River Development today announced that it has completed a three week implementation of its comprehensive front- and middle-office Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) at San Diego-based ClariVest Asset Management LLC (Cla read this
Aleri Labs and Attunity Partner to Extend Streaming Data Integration Capabilities
FREE ARTICLE Aleri Labs today announced that it has partnered with Attunity, a provider of enterprise-class integration platforms for real-time and on-demand data integration. The Aleri Labs and Attunity partnership overcomes one of the key obstacles to more widespr read this
Deutsche Bank to Offer Low Latency Direct Market Access to Hedge Funds Via BT Radianz
FREE ARTICLE BT Radianz today announced it will offer its Radianz Proximity Solution to Deutsche Bank's clients for low latency access to market data and trade execution in Europe. Deutsche Bank is the first investment bank in Europe to provide clients with the abilit read this
FutureTrade and The Williams Capital Group, L.P. Announce Electronic Partnership
FREE ARTICLE The Williams Capital Group and FutureTrade have announced an agreement whereby Williams Capital”s clients will use the FutureTrade electronic trading platform for self-directed direct market access and algorithmic execution and FutureTrade&rdqu read this
FPL Re-establishes Exchanges/ECN Working Group
FREE ARTICLE FPL has announced the reformation of its Exchanges/ECN Working Group. This working group will be lead by representatives from three geographic regions ? Matt Simpson of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (Americas region), Kathleen Grey of HSBC (Asia Pacific read this
TRADETREK SECURITIES EXPANDS SALES AND TRADING GROUP
FREE ARTICLE TradeTrek Securities today announced the hiring of Robert P. Calice and Philip Adesso as vice presidents in its sales and trading group. ?As we continue gaining market share in the growing algorithmic execution space Robert and Philip further strengthe read this
Reuters Launches Reuters Tick Capture Engine in Asia for Trading Analytics
FREE ARTICLE Reuters today announced the release of the Reuters Tick Capture Engine for clients in Asia building trading analytics for algorithmic execution, transaction cost analysis and trading compliance. Powered by Vhayu Technology, Reuters Tick Capture Engine i read this
Wombat and Vhayu Team to Deliver Real-Time VWAP and Transaction Cost Analysis
FREE ARTICLE Wombat Financial Software today announced the addition of Vhayu to its list of pre-integrated third party applications. The offering, which is in production and immediately available, provides traders with direct access to market data and enables them to read this
Vhayu expands European operation
FREE ARTICLE Today at Dealing With Technology London 2006, Vhayu announced today that it has opened a new office in the City of London. This is a result of the significant growth in demand for Vhayu technology amongst UK based financial institutions and the need to su read this
Voltaire Opens Offices in New York and Tokyo
FREE ARTICLE Voltaire has opened new offices in the financial district of New York City and Tokyo. The offices will focus on sales and marketing of Voltaire's InfiniBand-based hardware and software solutions that serve as the "backbone" for high performance clusters a read this
29West Announces Support for .NET and C# API?s With Release 2.2 Of Latency Busters? Messaging Software
FREE ARTICLE 29West today announced the general availability of release 2.2 of Latency Busters? Messaging (LBM) software. This release provides support for Microsoft?s popular .NET framework. LBM?s serverless and daemonless design has provided performance gains over t read this
Top Investment Bank Selects NeoNet?s eXchange Gateway Services
FREE ARTICLE NeoNet today announced that one of the world?s largest investment banks will use the NeoNet XG (eXchange Gateway) service. NeoNet XG is the product name of NeoNet?s hosted trading system and software services, launched during fall last year. With NeoNet read this
Strategy Runner Announces Collective2 Compatibility
FREE ARTICLE Strategy Runner and Collective2 have announced a strategic partnership. Strategy Runner is now compatible with Collective2 trading systems. This means that subscribers can choose any of the thousands of trading systems offered by independent vendors throu read this
TSX to build next-generation trading engine and smart order router
FREE ARTICLE TSX Markets President Rik Parkhill today announced details of two significant TSX Group trading enhancements: the next generation trading engine and a smart order router. He made his comments at the FPL Canadian Electronic Trading Conference in Toronto. read this
NYSE GROUP AND EURONEXT N.V. AGREE TO A MERGER OF EQUALS

FREE ARTICLE NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) and Euronext N.V. have announced that they have signed an agreement to combine the leading U.S. and pan-European securities trading exchanges in a merger of equals. This new group, to be named NYSE Euronext, will globally rede read this
NEONET SELECTS RADIANZ PROXIMITY SOLUTION TO ENHANCE DMA CAPABILITIES IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
FREE ARTICLE BT Radianz has announced that NeoNet will use Radianz Proximity Solution to provide its clients with low latency direct market access to execution venues in North America and Europe. As a part of the agreement, NeoNet will host modules of it read this
Integral deploys world?s largest derivative trading system for Japan?s The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
FREE ARTICLE Integral Development Corp. has been selected for further deployment of its Integral Direct Derivatives trading platform by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. The derivative trading system is already networked to more than 300 branches thr read this
Ian Warford Appointed New Industry Manager for Capital Markets at Microsoft EMEA Financial Services.
FREE ARTICLE Microsoft Corp has announced the appointment of Ian Warford as industry manager for Capital Markets, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Financial Services. Microsoft has hired Warford as an industry specialist dedicated to monitoring the gro read this
Sinara Consultants releases market data extraction tool

FREE ARTICLE UK software house Sinara Consultants has announced the release of its Universal Data Extractor (UDE) software tool that allows both market data providers and consumers to identify and extract key data items from any text data source such as news stories. read this
EBS Dealing Resources Extends EDS Relationship; EDS Will Continue Decade-long Engagement to Manage Company's Global Network.
FREE ARTICLE EDS announced it is extending its relationship with EBS Dealing Resources. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. EDS will continue to enable EBS' global growth with a range of IT services including management of the company's global ne read this
Automated Trading Desk Unveils First-Ever Automated Pink Sheet and Bulletin Board Trading Execution Service.
FREE ARTICLE Automated Trading Desk, LLC (ATD), a pioneer of automated trading technology, today announced that its retail execution platform, ATD Financial Services, LLC (AUTO) launched the first-ever automated pink sheet and bulletin board trading execution service. read this
Volante Announces Availability of SWIFT Standards Release Guide 2006 and SWIFTNet FIN Updates to Customers
FREE ARTICLE Volante Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of SWIFT Standards Release Guide (SRG) 2006 and SWIFTNet FIN updates for their customers. These updates, available to customers as a Volante SWIFT plug-in, include fully functional versions o read this
Misys Banking Systems and DataSynapse expand partnership to grid-enable Misys Summit FT
FREE ARTICLE Misys Banking Systems and DataSynapse Inc. have signed a new partnership agreement to grid-enable the Misys treasury and capital markets solution, Misys Summit FT, with DataSynapse\'s GridServer Misys and DataSynapse have a proven track record of working read this
SunGard?s Decalog and TradingScreen Announce Integration of OMS and EMS Offerings to Better Serve Asset Management Firms
FREE ARTICLE SunGard and TradingScreen Inc.have announced the launch of an integrated solution for buy-side traders. Decalog provides portfolio and trade order management functionality, helps streamline investment workflow and helps traders achieve best execution on l read this
Orc Software expands access to foreign exchange markets with connections to FXall and Hotspot FXi
FREE ARTICLE Orc Software has announced that it now provides direct trading access to FXall and Hotspot FXi, two of the leading alternative trading systems for foreign exchange (FX). This arrangement marks a significant expansion of Orc Software into the global FX mar read this
Smart Trade and the QuickFIX/J Team Roll out the First 100% Java Open Source FIX Engine for the Financial Markets
FREE ARTICLE Smart Trade Technologies and the QuickFIX/J Team have announced the worldwide production release of QuickFIX/J, a pure Java implementation of the QuickFIX engine and the only full-featured open source Java FIX engine currently available. This initiati read this
Pipeline Connection Offers Carlin Financial Groups Institutional Clients Enhanced Block Execution Opportunity
FREE ARTICLE Carlin Financial Group, has announced connectivity with Pipeline Trading Systems, enabling Carlin's institutional and hedge fund clients to anonymously execute and find liquidity for large block trades with minimal market impact. The agreement was annou read this
Canadian Trading and Quotation System Approves Pure Trading
FREE ARTICLE Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc have said that the Ontario Securities Commission has approved CNQ's application to operate Pure Trading, an alternative market for trading in securities listed on other Canadian stock exchanges. The new market, wh read this
BATS ECN Now a Destination on Lava Platform; BATS Trading and Lava Collaborate on Direct Market Access
FREE ARTICLE BATS Trading, Inc., and Lava Trading Inc., have announced that Lava will provide direct market access to the BATS ECN. BATS develops and operates a high volume, electronic trading platform for anonymous matching of US equity securities. Lava develops trad read this
MarketXS and Apama team to deliver hosted algo trading services
FREE ARTICLE MarketXS, 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
InfoDyne's Latency Service Ensures TPS+Plus Performance
FREE ARTICLE InfoDyne have announced a new Latency Service offering that ensures the absolute lowest possible latency to customer's mission critical applications. This unique Latency Service combines a set of core product capabilities, tools/utilities, and managed ser read this
Piper Jaffray Realises Significant Benefits with Lava's ColorPalette OMS; Achieves Multiple Synergies from Full Use of Lava Product Suite
FREE ARTICLE Piper Jaffray & Co.have announced that its adoption of Lava Trading's ColorPalette trading and order management system has proven very successful ColorPalette is a powerful sector-based trading and order management solution, designed as a high-throughput, read this
Kdb+tow v. 2.3 Speeds Time-To-Market For Developing and Testing New Trading Strategies
FREE ARTICLE Kx systems, has announced worldwide availability of the latest version of their kdb+tow application. Kdb+tow v. 2.3 allows traders to replay tick data more quickly so they can develop and test new algorithmic trading strategies. Depending on the level of read this
Vhayu Releases Velocity 6.0 to Manage Dramatic Rise in Market Data
FREE ARTICLE Vhayu, a leader in streaming tick processing and persistence software, has announced the launch of Vhayu Velocity^TM 6.0 to significantly improve the speed and scalability of trading applications. Velocity 6.0 has incorporated features designed for global read this
SOLACE SYSTEMS AND FIX FLYER PARTNER TO CREATE FASTER ADVANCED TRADE
FREE ARTICLE Solace Systems, has announced a partnership with FIX Flyer, to embed their financial information exchange (FIX) technology in Solace routers. FIX Flyer?s core engine, routing management, and transformation software will allow Solace?s VRS/32 Value-Added S read this
Charles River and Pipeline Trading Systems Partner to Simplify Equity
FREE ARTICLE Charles River Development and Pipeline Trading Systems LLC, has announced the availability of an expanded interface that closely links Pipeline's alternative trading system (ATS) with the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS), inc read this
SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCES TESTING TOOL FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE
FREE ARTICLE Spirent Communications has announced the availability of Spirent MarketStress, a new tool that tests high-performance financial trading networks. Spirent MarketStress can generate 160,000 market data messages per second ? a rate 10 times that of current N read this
NYFIX Launches New Order Management System: NYFIX Fusion(TM)
FREE ARTICLE NYFIX, Inc has announced the launch of its next generation order management system, NYFIX Fusion. NYFIX Fusion offers sell-side broker-dealers access to Listed, OTC, and Third Market trading on a single desktop. It also provides access to a full suite read this
Portware, Random Walk and IBM Elevate Algorithmic Trading to the Next Level
FREE ARTICLE Portware, Random Walk Computing and IBM has announced Portware on POWER, a new solution for algorithmic trading that combines Portware's Strategy Server and IBM System p entry-level servers with Random Walk?s consulting and integration services. The sys read this
Wombat, Voltaire, Novell and Intel team for market data optimisation
FREE ARTICLE Wombat is working with Voltaire, Novell, and Intel to deliver breakthroughs in the field of market data integration and distribution. Leveraging Voltaire?s InfiniBand switches and software; Concurrent Real-Time Extensions Powered by SUSE Linux; and the read this