Trading Platforms
See below for a list of independently written IBS Journal news and feature articles and IBS Intelligence Research vendor profiles, case studies and market analysis related to Trading Platforms in order of publication date.
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The term ‘trading system’ often has the connotation of ‘trading method’ or way of trading rather than referring to the computer system that is used to process trades. That computer system is often referred to as the ‘trading platform’ or ‘dealing room system’ to differentiate it from the ‘trading system’ which may be some empirical method used to assist traders in judging when to enter into buy trades and when to enter into sell trades.
The trading platform may be designed for specific types of market such as futures and options, foreign exchange, fixed income securities, derivatives, etc. and will enable traders to examine various pricing, model various scenarios and capture and execute the trade.
They will typically include some form of portfolio or history of accumulated trades that can be ‘marked-to-market’ (i.e. priced using current market prices not those at which they were traded) to show some sort of trading performance and risk management reporting.
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Article: Who's Bought What? – February 2011
02 February 2011
A round-up of recent orders in the financial technology sector worldwide. Oracle FSS, Surecomp, Vermeg, ERI and others have announced new deals. Cal Israel, DBS Bank, SocGen Corporate and Investment Bank, CIMB Group and Indian Bank are among the ...
Article: Who's Bought What? – December 2010 / January 2011
07 December 2010
A round-up of recent orders in the financial technology sector worldwide. Sungard, Fidessa, Misys, Nucleus, Charles River and others have announced new deals. Virgin Money, ABN Amro, Bank of Ireland, Samlink, Ajman Bank, Banca Mifel and EFG Asset...
Article: Backchat – December 2010 / January 2011
06 December 2010
All of the gossip from around the industry.
Article: Who's Bought Who? IBS Journal December 2010 / January 2011
06 December 2010
A round-up of recent mergers and acquisitions in the financial technology sector worldwide. Buyers include American Express, Capgemini and Misys. Accertify, Matrix Financial Systems and Sophis are among the target companies.
Article: Tokyo Stock Exchange selects Calypso for CDS clearing
05 November 2010
Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) continues to modernise its technology.
Article: Who's Bought What? – November 2010
04 November 2010
A round-up of recent orders in the financial technology sector worldwide. Misys, Infrasoft, Clear2Pay, Calypso, Temenos and others have announced new deals. ABN Amro, Co-op Financial Services, Danske Bank, Morgan Stanley, Tokyo Stock Exchange and...
Article: Who's Bought What? – October 2010
30 September 2010
A round-up of recent orders in the financial technology sector worldwide. SAS, FRSGlobal, Sofgen, Fidessa, Norkom and others have announced new deals. Central Bank of Oman, Russia's VTB Bank, UAE's National Bank of Abu Dhabi and US-based EFX Corp...
Article: Who's Bought Who? IBS Journal October 2010
29 September 2010
A round-up of recent mergers and acquisitions in the financial technology sector worldwide.
Article: Plus Markets Group in major restructuring, plans to launch new London exchange venue
22 September 2010
Following a recent strategic review, UK-based Plus Markets Group, a recognised investment exchange (RIE), is considerably reducing costs and headcount. On the IT front, it is replacing Nasdaq OMX with an in-house trading platform, and BT Radianz...
Article: Fidessa's sell-side trading platform gains takers in Germany, Norway and Japan
10 September 2010
Fidessa has bagged a number of deals for its hosted trading software. BHF-Bank in Germany, RS Platou Markets in Norway and Tokai Tokyo Securities in Japan are automating their sell-side trading with Fidessa.
Article: Direct Edge underway with new platforms
11 August 2010
Direct Edge, the latest US stock exchange, is nearing a month of live trading on its new Microsoft .Net platform. The software was built from the ground up by Direct Edge's own IT team.
Article: Fidessa automates sell-side trading at NCB Capital
28 July 2010
NCB Capital, the investment and asset management arm of National Commercial Bank, is to become the first domestic user of Fidessa's full sell-side trading software suite in Saudi Arabia. With over one million retail clients, NCBC is the vendor's...
Article: First Securities automates sell-side operations with Fidessa
06 July 2010
Norway-based First Securities, a securities broker and subsidiary of Swedbank, is implementing a sell-side platform from Fidessa. The new software is deployed on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis and will replace manual processes, says Peter...
Article: Omega ATS claims Canada's fastest matching engine
21 June 2010
Omega, a Toronto-based alternative trading system (ATS) for Canadian exchange-listed equities, has ambitious plans to take on the might of Canada's main exchange operators, TMX Group and Alpha ATS.
Article: Singapore Exchange to splash out $180 million on Reach
16 June 2010
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has embarked on an ambitious 'Reach' initiative to attract more international business to the region. The plans include the creation of a colocation data centre, seamless connection of global trading communities to Singapore...
Article: Cinnober launches SaaS trading system
08 June 2010
Sweden-based trading technology vendor, Cinnober Financial Technology, has launched an exchange system on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis.
Article: Misys and Smartstream partner for trade lifecycle management 'one-stop shop'
07 June 2010
Misys is partnering with Smartstream to create what Larry Mitchell, VP solutions management, treasury and capital markets at Misys, describes as 'a one-stop shop' for trade operations of financial institutions.
Article: Who's Bought What? – June 2010
02 June 2010
Bank Bukopin, Baader Bank and Cole Taylor Bank amongst others.
Article: TCS gains ISE as key trading software customer
02 June 2010
Mumbai-based Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India (ISE) is implementing new trading software from TCS.
Article: Focus: Syndicated lending – All together now
25 May 2010
Characterised by its reliance on legal documentation, syndicated lending is on the heavy-weight side of the lending business. What is it and who wants it?
Article: Sungard unveils Valdi trading software suite
22 April 2010
Sungard is seeking to globalise its Software as a Service (SaaS) approach for trading technology and is unifying disparate components under one brand name – Valdi. The suite is now available in the Americas and Europe, and is aimed at easing the p...
Article: New commodity bourse, ICDX, launched in Indonesia
19 April 2010
Indonesia Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (ICDX), a low latency trading platform powered by US vendor Patsystems, has been launched. It will provide the country with its own price reference for its products and hopes to lure traders away from...
Article: MillenniumIT signs Tullett Prebon for electronic broking system
31 March 2010
The trading technology subsidiary of London Stock Exchange, MillenniumIT, has landed a deal with Tullett Prebon, one of the world's largest inter-dealer brokers. A new electronic trading solution will slot into Tullett Prebon's best-of-breed...
Article: Temenos sells Viveo Switzerland to Brady plc
18 March 2010
Following Temenos' acquisition of Viveo Group, the Swiss vendor has started to shed Viveo's non-core banking units. The commodities business has been snapped up for £2.3 million by Brady plc, a trading and risk management software provider for metals ...
Article: New data & account management software firm eyes global markets
17 March 2010
Verticlear, a newly launched Canada-based data and account management solutions provider for the trading space, plans to expand into the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia, and is open for partnership with local firms.
Article: Castleoak Securities live with Fidessa's trading platform
03 March 2010
Castleoak Securities, a boutique investment bank in the US, is live with a new trading platform from Fidessa. The platform is provided on a hosted basis and covers front-to-back operations at the bank.
Article: Merrill Lynch Securities Japan offers low latency DMA platform
03 March 2010
Activ Financial, KVH and Merrill Lynch offer a new joint low latency platform for Japanese markets.
Article: Sveafastigheter opts for IT2's treasury solution
03 March 2010
Sveafastigheter, a Sweden-based private equity firm specialising in property, is to implement IT2's treasury management system. The deal was won by the vendor's local partner, Opuscapita.
Article: ASX signs for new Nasdaq OMX platform
24 February 2010
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has signed for a new trading platform, Genium Inet, from Nasdaq OMX. ASX was looking for a new system to respond to competitive pressure from new multilateral trading facilities, believes Lars Ottersgard, SVP of...
Article: BT gains traction in Russia; competes with Swift
22 February 2010
BT muscles into Swift's territory, with its managed secure messaging service. Pitched as a cheaper, wider-reaching and secure option than that offered by Swift, BT is hopeful of a sizeable take-up. The vendor is also making inroads into Russia,...
Article: Woori IS pioneers Kondor+
01 February 2010
In South Korea, Kondor+ has made a first inroad into the securities house sector but this is a country that is resisting the front-to-back office approach.
Article: NewEdge: Flight of the Kondor
01 February 2010
International broker, NewEdge, has been a pioneer for Thomson Reuters' K+TP back office system. Will its experiences help to change perceptions about this supplier's offerings?
Article: Trading technology vendors Orc Software and Neonet to merge
27 January 2010
Sweden-based Orc Software and Neonet are planning to create one group, which will combine the former's derivatives trading and connectivity products and the latter's equity trading solutions. Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific will be the key areas...
Article: Quant takes Aleri CEP tech for algo trading
25 January 2010
Quant Capital, an independent private investment firm, is deploying Aleri's complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions.
Article: New Tokyo Exchange platform resets trading experience
22 January 2010
Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has launched its next-generation equity and convertible bond trading system, meeting its rescheduled deadline and delivering long-awaited low latency trading to the markets.
Article: Fortis Bank Global Clearing colocates in Interxion's City Hub
19 January 2010
Fortis Bank Global Clearing (FBGC) is using Interxion's City of London Financial Hub to house its market access platforms. Following Fortis Group's break-up, the clearing unit relocated from Belgium to the UK, where most of the European liquidity...
Article: FXall buys Citi's LavaFX platform
06 January 2010
FXall, the multi-bank electronic foreign exchange platform provider, is to purchase LavaFX from Citi. LavaFX will expand FXall's institutional client base to nearly 1000 hedge funds, CTAs, banks, broker-dealers, corporate treasurers and asset...
Article: End of Year Review 2009
17 December 2009
2009 was hardly a good year for the financial services sector and this has been reflected in the financial technology market. Smaller and weaker players were gobbled up by larger counterparts, some went out of business, but others managed to make the...
Article: Eka Software signs grain trader for new system
07 December 2009
Medsofts Group, a commodity trader, broker and logistics services provider in the MENA market, has signed for a new commodity trading and risk management system from Eka Software Solutions.
Article: OMIP replacing trading platform
03 December 2009
Operador de Mercado Ibérico de Energía (OMIP), the Iberian power market derivatives exchange, is replacing its current trading platform, Condico, from Nasdaq OMX, with Trayport's Exchange System. A go-live is scheduled for summer 2010.
Article: New trading platform postponed in the Nordics
25 November 2009
Nasdaq OMX has suffered a setback in the move of equities trading from its current Saxess platform to Inet, brought by the vendor from the US.
Article: TurkDex takes Coral8 for trade surveillance
24 November 2009
Aleri's Coral8 complex event processing (CEP) engine has been deployed at TurkDex, the only private derivatives exchange in Turkey.
Article: Ffastfill signs Ignis Asset Management; posts H1 2009 results
23 November 2009
FFasfill, a UK-based system provider in the trading space, has signed Ignis Asset Management for the hosted option of its back office solution, Eclipse.
Article: Openlink changes hands
13 November 2009
Openlink Financial is to gain a new owner. A global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, is buying the company from TA Associates, which has owned Openlink since 2006.
Article: Bolero extends reach into commodity trading space with Viveo
10 November 2009
Viveo Switzerland and Bolero are to collaborate on a new offering in the commodity trading and trade finance space.
Article: Caplin Systems launches new platform, Caplin Xaqua
10 November 2009
Caplin Systems, the UK-based provider of single-dealer trading platforms, has launched its new platform, Caplin Xaqua. Xaqua is already live with Nomura, the investment bank, as well as three other financial institutions. 'The ideal...
Article: KSE revamps technology with Nasdaq OMX
05 November 2009
Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) has partnered with Nasdaq OMX in a major project to develop the national capital market. The deal is believed to be worth around $70 million.
Article: Fidessa gains four clients for new options and equities offering
05 November 2009
Following the recent go-live at Capstone Global Markets (CGM), the first taker of Fidessa's new integrated options and equities trading platform, three more firms have signed up for the offering.
Article: Sophis finalises partnership agreement with Koscom
05 October 2009
Sophis, a provider of cross-asset, risk and portfolio management systems, has finalised a partnership agreement with a state-owned South Korean IT firm, Koscom.
Article: Regions Bank first live user of Wallstreet ESN
05 October 2009
US-based Regions Bank has become the first live user of the pre-configured, hosted version of Wall Street Systems' FX back office system.
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