Brazil’s Link Selects Progress Apama Algo Trading Platform

Progress Apama has signed up Link Investimentos, its 18th client in Brazil in just 18 months, for its algorithmic trading platform. The deal underscores Progress Apama’s assertion that the local electronic trading market is booming as investment banks and brokerages adopt next-generation trading technologies to enable algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies.

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08 Mar 2010
 
Beta-Gamma Brings Algo Trading to FX Market

Beta-Gamma Research is attempting to replicate the success of algorithmic trading in equities with a software product for the FX market called Trigger Trader. The company is one of a number of pioneers in applying algorithmic models and other techniques used in the equities markets to the foreign exchange marketplace.

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17 Feb 2010
 
Credit Suisse Underscores Need for Hardware Appliances in High-Performance Trading Infrastructures

Credit Suisse’s decision to implement Celoxica’s hardware appliance-based data feedhandlers for its next-generation trading infrastructure appears to be consistent with its belief that its best opportunity for reducing overall trading system latency lies in addressing the processing latency of execution engine and the market data systems that support it.

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12 Feb 2010
 
Citi Taps RTI Middleware for Algorithmic Trading

Citigroup has deployed low-latency messaging middleware from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) in support of its global equities trading business. RTI officials confirm a new major deployment of its product at a “flagship” customer but decline to name it as Citigroup. Initial rollout is in Manhattan and in Carteret, NJ.

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11 Jan 2010
 
FlexTrade FlexPTS Offers Portfolio Optimisation Algos Using IBM Ilog Cplex

Execution management system specialist FlexTrade Systems has deployed IBM’s optimization software in its FlexPTS portfolio trading system to generate trading signals to optimise portfolio performance while minimising market impact costs and the risk of underperforming market benchmarks.

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08 Dec 2009
 
Citi Offers Electronic Executions, Algorithms for Options

The expansion of equity markets electronic trading techniques to the listed derivatives markets is hitting its stride, with Citi this month announcing that it plans to offer buy-side clients access to its options trading platform. The move follows expansion this year into facilitation of client electronic trading of listed derivatives by several big investment banks.

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20 Nov 2009
 
CA Cheuvreux Brings Dark Pool Connections to 20 with 5 New Additions

French brokerage Credit Agricole Cheuvreux has added five new European dark pools to the population of execution venues available to its clients, bringing the total number of dark pools supported by its routing systems. The firm plans to make access available by the end of the month to its direct market access (DMA) clients via its CrossFire dark liquidity seeking algorithm.

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18 Nov 2009
 

 
 

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