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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.
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Over the past couple of years, Complex Event Processing has emerged as a hot technology for the financial markets, and its flexibility has been leveraged in applications as diverse as market data cleansing, to algorithmic trading, to compliance monitoring, to risk management. CEP is a solution to many problems, which is one reason why the emerging marketplace is growing, with many vendor options to choose from.
But CEP is not a solution in itself, and so technologists need to concern themselves with how to integrate it within a complete application architecture, how it can best be leveraged, and how to streamline development and deployment. And with multiple vendor choices, choosing the right CEP approach for the job is an important, and early, activity for firms looking to adopt it.


















