A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.

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.
StreamBase Systems is introducing a community development approach to complex event processing (CEP) with the launch of its StreamBase Component Exchange (SBX), which will allow developers to download and share reusable components in order to create complete applications. The company hopes to “spark innovation” with its initiative, which it says has been driven by customer demand. The move is another illustration of how financial markets firms are embracing collaborative and open source approaches as they seek to reduce development costs and speed time to market.
In a move designed to boost its real-time analytics offerings and allow it to offer turnkey solutions, such as for liquidity risk management, Sybase has acquired the assets of complex event processing (CEP) specialist Aleri, including all of its products. It has also retained key staff in the sales, engineering and marketing areas. The acquisition marks the continuing evolution of the CEP space, as it transforms from a one-time start-up culture to one where enterprise IT heavyweights increasingly compete.
CMC Markets, a global market maker in foreign exchange and other instruments with a focus on the retail sector, has implemented StreamBase Systems’ complex event processing (CEP) technology in support of applications for FX price quotations for clients, as well as other internal functions. In use since August, CMC plans to extend StreamBase’s use to other markets, including indices, futures, commodities and treasuries.
Brazilian hedge fund Kairos Asset Management has implemented StreamBase Systems’ complex event processing (CEP) software as the basis of its new algorithmic trading system and is already trading certain strategies for equities, foreign exchange and local futures markets. Further strategies are due to be migrated from its existing system, which uses Microsoft Excel spreadsheets linked to SunGard/GL Trade’s Automate functionality.
![]() |
Monthly A-Team Insight Review. Subscribers only. | ![]() |
Our quarterly in depth magazine. Download Free! |
![]() |
Video: Andrew Delaney Talks to Atrium Network's Des Peck 29 Jul 2010 |
![]() |
A-Team Insight Podcast - July 2010 22 Jul 2010 |
![]() |
A-Team Insight Webinar (Recorded): Trading Beyond the Horizon 07 Jul 2010 |



















