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SIFMA TMC 2008This is the SIFMA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit News Center, brought to you by A-Team Group in partnership with SIFMA. Here you will find breaking news from the many exhibitors, highlights of the conference, photo reports and podcasts to bring out the buzz of the entire event, plus backgrounders of keynote presenters and News Center sponsors.

This News Center ran from a month before the June event, and will remain live until the 2009 event kicks off. For information on sponsorship opportunities for 2009, please contact Peter Harris, pete@a-teamgroup.com.

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It’s a SIFMA Wrap … »

For a few weeks before, and during the days of the show, A-Team’s editors and researchers worked hard to bring you all the news, views and buzz of the 2008 SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibit. We hope you found it useful, and that it added to your enjoyment and investment in attending.

The A-Team crew were: Pete Harris, James Hartley, Maryann Houglet, Virginie O’Shea, Paul Skeldon and Jim Willis.

We hope to see you next year … June 23rd-25th, 2009, when Andrew Delaney will be making a comeback.

But for now, this concludes A-Team’s coverage of the 2008 event.

A-Team iPod touch winner! »

iPod touchCongratulations to Gregory DeSalvo, COO, Global Active Equity Trading at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the winner of the iPod touch drawing at the A-Team booth! Mr. DeSalvo will soon receive an iPod touch loaded with 50 indie tunes, selected by A-Team’s own Pete Harris, President Americas, well known around the New York music scene as a fan and promoter of indie music.

Trans-Lux (Booth 1100) »

The Trans-Lux booth is always illuminating!

Trans-Lux

Endace (Booth 3606) »

Ian Graham, Chief Scientist at Endace.

Endace

29West (Booth 1519) »

Jennifer Griffin and Kurt Klein from 29West.

29West

Vhayu Technologies (Booth 1430) »

Squeezing velocity with Vhayu (left to right): Ross Dubin, Rama Koduru and Tim King.

Orc Software (Booth 1427) »

Deep in discussion at the Orc Software booth.

Orc Software

Interactive Data (Booth 1405) »

Lots of people interacting at the Interactive Data booth.

Interactive Data

Real-Time Innovations (Booth 1205) »

Sumeet Shendrikar from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) discusses high performance messaging middleware.

RTI

Nexaweb (Booth 4106) »

Daniel Cuneo (center) talks about migrating legacy apps to webapps.

Nexaweb

Volante Technologies (Booth 4117) »

Venkat Malla from Volante Technologies talking about the need for speed.

Volante Technologies

Fixnetix (Booth 3612) »

Alasdair Moore sporting a dashing Union Jack vest at the Fixnetix booth.

Fixnetix

Townsend Analytics (Booth 3005) »

Visiting with the folks at Townsend: Deborah Mittelman, Todd Swearingen, and Jeffrey Carino.

Townsend Analytics

And the beat goes on – Market Data Volumes, Electronic Trading and Regulation Challenge Trading Infrastructure »

“Electronic trading has moved from an efficiency to a competitive advantage – resulting in equity volume tripling in the last year,” Stuart Breslow, CEO Townsend Analytics told delegates at the closing session of SIFMA in New York yesterday. Exploding equity volumes coupled with demands to access dark pool liquidity and multi-asset trading practices is forcing ongoing management of trading infrastructures.

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Ften Divulges Plans to Establish European Offices and Expansion of Coverage Beyond Equities »

Low latency trading solution vendor Ften has released plans to establish three new offices in Europe to expand its geographic footprint. The vendor is also looking at expanding its instrument coverage beyond equities to futures and options.

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SIFMA Show Wrap-Up Podcast »

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In this final daily episode: We take a look at the key trends and exciting developments that have taken place at SIFMA in New York this week.

Paul Skeldon, Online Editor at A-Team Group, talks to Exhibitors, Analysts and Visitors to the show to gauge their feelings on the trends they saw at this year’s event.

Running time: 9 minutes 25 seconds. Click the play button below to listen now:

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Tervela (Booth 1606) »

The Tervela booth is groovy! :-)

Tervela

Coral8 Named As 2008 Innovator of the Year by Windows in Financial Services Magazine »

Windows in Financial Services (WSF) magazine names Coral8 (booth # 1507), the leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) software, as 2008 Innovator of the Year. The award was presented last night at the Microsoft’s customer and partner reception held at SIFMA Technology Management Conference. Four companies, including Coral8, were honored for their innovative use of Microsoft technology to solve practical business problems, from maximizing productivity to streamlining operations, in today’s highly charged and competitive capital markets industry.

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Landover Associates (Booth 3214) »

Michael Reiss (second from right) hands out propellers for propeller-heads!

Landover

Gissing Software (Booth 3220) »

The gentlemen of Gissing.

Gissing