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.
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.
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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.
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