NASDAQ OMX and Smarsh establish partnership to deliver deeper compliance risk capabilities

May 20, 2013

Smarsh®, a provider of hosted archiving and compliance solutions for email and electronic communications, announced today at FINRA’s 2013 Annual Conference a new partnership with NASDAQ OMX (Nasdaq: NDAQ) to offer Smarsh archiving and compliance solutions to corporations, broker-dealers, exchanges and regulators alongside NASDAQ OMX’s SMARTS market surveillance and compliance solutions.

FIX Protocol publishes guidelines for post-trade processing

May 20, 2013

FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL), the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of the global electronic trading community, today published updated recommended guidelines for the use of FIX for post-trade processing.

Aquis Exchange Links With FixSpec

May 20, 2013

LONDON – Aquis Exchange Limited, the proposed pan-European stock exchange, and FixSpec, the FIX certification and connectivity specialist, have entered into an agreement which will facilitate Member testing for FIX order entry specifications and offer an automated certification platform for Aqus Exchange.

Volta Data Centres and Optimity launch ‘The Shoreditch Suite’

May 17, 2013

London – Volta Data Centres, the specialist provider of data centres to the financial, media and content industries, and Optimity, the pioneers of the ultra-fast LDN+ service, today announced the launch of ‘The Shoreditch Suite’, ahead of the Digital Shoreditch Festival, starting 20 May.

SIX Financial Information offers dividend information service

May 16, 2013

SIX Financial Information has launched an Income Distribution Service to provide timely and accurate dividend information.
During the development phase, SIX worked closely with a client based working group to design a service tailored to the industry's requirements. A number of leading financial institutions have already subscribed to the new offering.

TT connects to Nasdaq OMX NLX

May 16, 2013

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) announced today that TT will connect its X_Trader platform and related products to Nasdaq OMX NLX (NLX), a new London-based derivatives trading market.

ConvergEx Prime Services Launches New Tax Optimizer Solution

May 16, 2013

New York – ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, today announced that it has launched Tax Optimizer, a new tool which allows customers to take greater control over their potential tax liability. The Tax Optimizer helps customers better understand and customize their tax lot closing methods, thereby enabling them to itemize their capital gain and loss allocations in a more efficient manner.

Tick Data, Inc. Announces Management Buyback

May 16, 2013

Great Falls, VA – Tick Data, Inc. (www.tickdata.com) is pleased to announce the corporate buyback of the firm by its long-time management team, led by Neal Falkenberry, CFA, and Thomas Myers, with additional funding from the Tactex F1 Private Equity Fund. After eight years of ownership by Penson Worldwide, Inc., and a brief acquisition by Desjardins Group, Canada’s leading cooperative financial group, as part of Nexa Technologies, Inc., ownership and operations once again belong to the individuals who built the company from a niche provider of historical intraday U.S. futures data to the leading provider of research-ready global futures, index, equity, and options historical intraday data.

CQG Connects Trading Gateways to Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange

May 15, 2013

Denver, CO, - CQG, Inc. today announced that it has connected its hosted infrastructure to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) to deliver low-latency trade execution and market data service to its customers worldwide.

IPC Launches Program to Support App Development for its Unigy Unified Trading Communications System

May 15, 2013

ersey City, N.J. – Today, IPC Systems unveiled a new app development partner program for its Unigy® trading communications platform. The Affinity Partner Program (APP) provides a framework for solutions vendors and customers to develop collaboration and trading workflow applications using IPC’s Blue WaveTM development platform for Unigy.

Provocative views around risk, regulation and reputation dominate sixth annual Cass-Capco Risk Conference

May 15, 2013

Six years on from the start of the current crisis and there’s no sign of a let up in the energetic discussion surrounding the future of financial services. The conversation around risk, regulation and reputation is more passionate than ever, as witnessed at this year’s annual Cass-Capco Risk Conference on 25 April, 2013.

smartTrade Provides Koscom with Smart Order Routing and Aggregation Capability

May 15, 2013

Tokyo, New York, London, Paris & Aix en Provence, smartTrade Technologies, a leading global liquidity management solution company, today announced that Koscom, leader of financial IT solution in Korea has selected smartTrade’s Liquidity Management System (LMS) to offer aggregation and smart order routing to their clients.

NYSE Technologies Names Varghese Thomas as Global Head of Infrastructure Solutions

May 15, 2013

New York, – NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced the appointment of Varghese Thomas as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure Solutions. In this role, Mr. Thomas will be responsible for the development and management of a leading financial hosting, network and managed services business, which provides secure solutions for the global financial services community.

Jensen Investment Management goes live with INDATA iPM Cloud

May 14, 2013

INDATA has announced that Jensen Investment Management, based in the greater Portland, OR area, is now live with INDATA's iPM Cloud - Intelligent Portfolio Management platform.

BT Radianz announces access to NZX via its Cloud community

May 14, 2013

BT and NZX have announced that the New Zealand market operator's trading and market data services will now be accessible to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community.