SunGard has extended its Valdi Market Access solution with the addition of a hosted connectivity service to EuroTLX, a Milan based European multilateral trading facility that claims to the first fixed income market in Europe focused on retail investors.
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 
SunGard is rolling out Valdi, a multi-asset trading suite combining OMS, smart order routing and liquidity services delivered as a hosted solution. Valdi draws upon existing SunGard offerings augmented with new functionality, promoted as a new single brand - a continuing sign of how the software giant is combining point solutions (many of them the result of acquisitions) into enterprise offerings to meet the more sophisticated needs of global customers. 
FIX Protocol Ltd. used its FIX EMEA Trading Conference to unveil version 1.1 of its Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXatdl), effectively making the standard available to the broad marketplace for the first time. FIXatdl introduces a standard format that allows brokers and other providers of algorithmic trading strategies to release their model specifications in a standard XML format, rapidly reducing time to market for new and updated trading models.
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.
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.
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