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StreamBase Announces Breakthrough Usability and Performance with Version 7 FREE - A-Team Wire
China’s Guosen Securities Selects Kx Database to Power Algo Trading System
Guosen Securities, a top tier investment bank in China, has signed an OEM license deal with Kx Systems for its kdb+ database. The deal marks Guosen’s move into algo trading and Kx’s first OEM arrangement in China where it already has other direct clients among local and international investment banks.
Kx Taps Multi-Core for “Intelligent” Data Compression
Version 2.7 of Kx Systems’ kdb+ database leverages multi-core servers to implement file compression, while also featuring enhanced memory management and a performance increase of up to 20%. The file compression addresses the need to store growing data volumes for both trading and risk analytics and regulatory requirements.
Kx Systems Releases kdb+ v2.7 FREE - A-Team Wire
Quant Fund EXQIM Selects OneTick to Support Equity Strategy Development
Nascent asset manager Exclusive Quantitative Investment Management (EXQIM) has selected OneMarketData’s OneTick complex event processing (CEP) and database software to underpin quantitative strategy development and deployment in the US and European equities markets.
StreamBase Launches Certification Program FREE - A-Team Wire
StreamBase Connects to BM&FBOVESPA FREE - A-Team Wire
IBM Pitches Financial Markets Framework; Pre-Integrates Hardware, Software for Trading, Risk and More …
With the recent launch of its Financial Markets Framework, IBM is positioning itself as a provider of pre-integrated solutions to trading and investment firms, leveraging its own portfolio of hardware and software offerings, and augmenting them with consulting expertise and partner products. The move follows a direction that the IT giant has already taken in verticals such as banking, insurance, and outside of financial services.
Alliance Asset Management Deploys OneTick in Search for Alpha
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Alliance Asset Management has gone live with a tick data management and complex event processing (CEP) system from OneMarketData. The proprietary trading specialist commenced production use of the OneTick solution a week ago, using it to “generate alpha researching trading ideas that occur at higher frequencies,” says Vinicius D’alesandro, a partner at the firm.
StreamBase and MarketFactory Tackle Market Data Issues of FX Trading
StreamBase has responded to increasing interest in foreign exchange (FX) trading by teaming up with algorithmic FX trading specialist MarketFactory to speed up ‘time to first trade’ for hedge funds, banks and trading firms accessing the spot FX market.
OneMarketData Partners with IWI to Expand Reach of OneTick in Asian Markets FREE - A-Team Wire
StreamBase and Solace Systems Partner for Low Latency Trading Solutions FREE - A-Team Wire
Kairos Asset Management Adds Futures Strategies to StreamBase CEP Platform
Kairos Asset Management (KAM), a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based company, with US$100 million under management, has confirmed its commitment to the StreamBase complex event processing (CEP) platform by adding futures strategies to the high frequency equities trading strategies it already runs on the platform (see its earlier deployment here).
SAP to Aquire Sybase, Inc. FREE - A-Team Wire
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.
StreamBase’s Component Exchange Encourages Community Development
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.
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