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IPM Selects Charles River IMS to Integrate with Advent Back Office

Stockholm-based IPM Informed Portfolio Management (IPM) has implemented Charles Rivers’ investment management system to replace proprietary software and fulfil its strategy of automating processes and being able to scale up to accommodate increased trade volumes and future growth.

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22 Feb 2010

Paremus Taps RTI Messaging To Boost Service Fabric Performance

London-based Paremus is adopting low-latency messaging middleware from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) for internal communications underpinning its Service Fabric cloud computing platform. The move will allow Service Fabric to be deployed more readily in support of high performance front office and trade processing applications, and also allows Service Fabric developers to leverage RTI’s middleware for their own messaging requirements.

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22 Feb 2010

First Derivatives Pays $4.7 million for Cognotec Business and Assets

First Derivatives has stumped up $4.7 million to buy the business and assets of foreign exchange trading platform provider Cognotec that went into receivership on January 22. But the deal – at a valuation far below a $55 million offer for it made just a few years ago – was not without incident: a Gibraltar-based company, with directors including Cognotec founder Brian Maccaba and Gibraltar-based Cognotec director Solomon Marrache, claimed that it held the intellectual property rights (IPR) to Cognotec’s software.

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17 Feb 2010

Chicago Fed Warns Naked Access Ban May Spark Jurisdiction Arbitrage

Following publication of a proposed rule by the US Securities & Exchange Commission that would require brokers to improve their pre-trade risk management controls and prohibit them from offering clients so-called ‘naked access’ to execution venues, the Chicago Fed has warned that any moves to curb such practices could drive trading volumes to less-stringent regulatory jurisdictions.

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10 Feb 2010

Thomson Reuters Targets Enhanced DMA with Aegisoft Acquisition

Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Aegisoft and its Athena execution management platform gives the big UK vendor a pre-trade risk management system that addresses clients’ requirements for sophisticated DMA systems as regulators threaten to ban so-called ‘naked’ sponsored access.

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09 Feb 2010

First Derivatives’ Haste to Acquire Cognotec Raises Questions Around Transaction

The emergence on February 3 of Dublin-based financial technology company First Derivatives as suitor of foreign exchange trading platform Cognotec, which entered receivership on January 22, has left the marketplace scratching its head as to how developments moved so quickly.

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09 Feb 2010

Trading Beyond the Horizon: Fragmentation Drives Multi-Market Execution

A new industry briefing from A-Team Group and CFN Services

CFN Whitepaper 01 10 150x210 In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies.

The successful operations – whether they be the proprietary desks of traditional broker/dealers, specialist high frequency and algorithmic traders, or quantitative hedge funds – will leverage a trading infrastructure that combines high performance analytical, algorithmic and order routing platforms with the lowest latency access to multiple, geographically dispersed execution venues.

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28 Jan 2010

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J.P. Morgan Extends MorganDirect AlgoX To Bloomberg

Atrium Network and Visual Trader Connect Their Networks to Offer Connectivity to the Spanish Exchange

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Clive Triance Moves to Penson from Nomura Instinet Europe

ALGO Technologies Launches Next Generation Trading Technology Names Hirander Misra as CEO and Howard Morgan as Chairman

Verticlear Launches with Offices in Irvine, CA and Toronto

SmartPool Launches "MatchView" Liquidity Discovery Tool to Improve Visibility of European Dark Trading

AboveNet Launches Low Latency TransAtlantic Connectivity

Cinnober Radically Reduces Latency with TRADExpress Trading System Version 8

RTS Realtime Systems Introduces First Phase of Technology Initiative to Further Reduce Latency

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