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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UBS Global Asset Management has expanded its deployment of CheckFree’s (booth # 1422) multi-currency portfolio management solution, GIM, to multiple locations across the globe including London, Zurich, Singapore, Chicago and Sydney.

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US equity and fixed income asset management firm Ark Asset Management has decided to move from its installation of the Eagle investment management suite, which is currently managed in-house, to the Eagle Access ASP booth # 2111).

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RiverCross ATS has selected Sungard’s (booth # 2411) Brass infrastructure to host its fully-automated dark pool servicing sell-side providers. The connection to RiverCross will give customers of Sungard’s Brass direct connectivity to a unique pool of dark liquidity and another option to execute order flow before quoting in displayed markets.

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Advent Software (booth # 1770), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that Moxy, its trade order management solution, has completed systems integration with Pulse Trading’s alternative trading system, BlockCross. The strategic relationship delivers greater access to liquidity to Moxy customers.

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ACTIV Financial (booth # 3101), a leading, independent, global end-to-end market data services provider, and Hanweck Associates, today announced the launch of VoleraFeed, a high-performance, real-time options analytics service delivered on ACTIV Financial’s ultra-low-latency data platform.

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Eagle Investment Systems (booth # 2111), a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that Eagle ACCESS, its application service provider is currently available on Sun Microsystems’ SolarisTM 10 Operating System (OS).

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Thomson Reuters Markets, a division of Thomson Reuters (booth # 1101), a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced Tier1CRM has selected Thomson Reuters ownership and content data for its ACE Ownership Data product (ACE). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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Transamerica Financial Advisors will be the first major independent broker-dealer to deploy new functionality available through Sungard’s (booth # 2411) Protegent Customer Onboard in its comprehensive paperless office platform, TFA Synergy, it was announced this morning at SIFMA. Transamerica has been using Protegent Customer Onboard to facilitate the opening of new brokerage and non-brokerage accounts. It will now also use Protegent Customer Onboard’s new integration with DST Systems’s new account web service, to facilitate the maintenance of new accounts and electronic mutual fund transactions for the direct-to-fund business channel.

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National Stock Exchange (NSX) will use Sungard’s (booth # 2411) Brass Liquidity Services’ dual routing infrastructure to route all traffic NSX directs to other venues for best execution obligations. NSX will also use SunGard’s correspondent clearing services to support its clearing needs. NSX is a cost-effective provider of exchange services, committed to transparency, pricing leadership and partnering with its customers. SunGard’s Brass Liquidity Services is a suite of market access solutions for both buy- and sell-side institutions, and includes sponsored access, directed and smart order routing, dark aggregation and advanced algorithms.

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Orc Software (booth # 1427), a global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity, today announced the release of Orc CameronFIX Version 6.3 at SIFMA in New York. The release provides significant enhancements, including complete integration of the FAST standard into the Orc CameronFIX Engine. 


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Vhayu (booth # 1430), a provider of enterprise tick data solutions, today launched Velocity Squeezer, a patent-pending hybrid solution that works seamlessly with Vhayu’s Velocity tick processing engine to deliver at least four times compression of all Velocity data with no performance penalty and enterprise-level fault tolerance.

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Advent Software (booth # 1770), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has entered into an alliance with Aqua, an alternative trading venue for block liquidity. The strategic relationship will offer integration between Moxy, Advent’s leading trade order management solution, and Aqua. With over 800 clients, Moxy is the most widely used order management system (OMS) software in the industry, and this latest announcement represents further progress on Advent’s recently announced strategy to expand trading options for its Moxy clients.

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Streambase Systems (booth # 1800) is today releasing Streambase version 6.0, the latest version of its award-winning complex event processing (CEP) software platform. Streambase version 6.0 is the first CEP platform to deliver critical features that enables enterprise-class development, testing, and deployment features. These features further advance Streambase’s lead as the easiest and most reliable environment to build, test, debug, profile, and provision CEP applications.

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Linedata Services (booth # 2200), announced today that its LongView Trading Order Management System (OMS) now offers users access to InfoExchange, Inc., a financial technology company whose InfoEx offering helps streamline communications and content delivery for financial institutions. InfoEx can develop a contextual understanding of investors based on their trading activity and holdings, and then uses this understanding to deliver relevant content.

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Interactive Data Corporation (booth # 1405), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business now delivers start-of-day reference data for North American Equities at 1 a.m. ET — seven hours earlier than previously available and in advance of the opening of trading in Europe.

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Advent Software (booth # 1770), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it recently entered into an integration agreement with block execution system provider, Pipeline. In line with its recently announced trading integration strategy, this new relationship with Pipeline underlines Advent’s commitment to respond to the needs of its 800-plus Moxy client base by providing a connection to a proven leader in the alternative liquidity marketplace.

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Xenomorph (booth # 1845), the leading data and analytics management platform for derivatives, risk and trading, today announced a deal with Four-Wire Capital, an alternative investment fund specializing in cross-asset trading strategies. Four-Wire is leveraging the Xenomorph TimeScape data and analytics platform and has reduced the time taken to analyze huge data sets from several days to under 20 minutes – a significant competitive advantage as Four-Wire continues to grow and develop new statistical-based investment strategies.

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Sungard’s Brass Liquidity Services, a suite of market access solutions for both buy- and sell-side institutions, is being launched at SIFMA today (booth # 2411). Sungard’s Brass Liquidity Services helps firms improve execution quality, minimize information leakage and decrease total overall execution costs. Integrated with Sungard’s order and execution management solutions, as well as the Sungard Transaction Network (STN), Brass Liquidity Services includes Brass Sponsored Access, Brass Smart Order Routing, Brass Dark Pool Aggregator, and Algorithms.

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Progress Software Corporation (booth # 2415A) and NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions (booths # 1436, # 1438 and # 1764), a unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced a partnership that enables NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions to offer its customers new complex event processing (CEP) capabilities for algorithmic trading, real-time risk management, and smart order routing, which will be provided by the Progress Apama CEP platform. READ THE REST