This 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.
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.
Congratulations 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.
“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.
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.
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:
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.