Investment strategy solutions supplier TG Optima has introduced a quantitative investment optimisation platform that integrates investment and trading strategies and aims to deliver optimal portfolio construction and best execution depending on strategy objectives and risk constraints. Called Investment Optimizer, the platform allows portfolio managers and traders to work together using the same data to inform investment and trading strategies.
Risk management and analytics solution provider SAS has invested significant time and resources in bolstering its high performance risk calculation capabilities. A-Team Insight speaks to SAS CEO Jim Goodnight about why the vendor got into the space in the first place and its hopes for this year.
BT Radianz is adding risk capabilities to what it calls its financial cloud, with partnerships in the pre-trade risk and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) areas with Lime Brokerage and Lockpath, respectively. The deals mark a shift up the value chain for BT Radianz, whose financial extranet has long offered connectivity services for broker/dealers and other market participants.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) 14 July deadline for compliance with its Rule 15c3-5, which governs pre-trade risk management, and the ongoing MiFID Review in Europe were highlighted as key concerns by panellists at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week. High frequency traders are especially concerned about the extension of MiFID to many new areas as a result of the review process, said Benjamin Stephens, electronic trading and quantitative prime brokerage origination at Nomura International.
Lime Brokerage and Tbricks have teamed up to combine the agency broker’s ultra high speed infrastructure and the trading software supplier’s high performance trading systems for the benefit of high frequency trading firms, hedge funds and broker-dealers that require high volume and low latency access to the US markets.
A-Team Insight Events combine A-Team's expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. In 2011, a quality constituency will once again gather for these focused events in London and New York City.
Cloud-based trading applications provider Sky Road aims to improve analytical efficiency and risk management for fixed income traders through the integration of Panopticon Software’s real time data visualisation tools in its Motion platform and Swap Trader application.
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