Technology
Bank race for CLS clients
The world’s top FX banks are racing against time – and each other – to sign up a potential 2,000 third-party banks and institutions as clients for a new forex settlement system, Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS).
HVB offers automated pricing via Currenex
HypoVereinsbank (HVB) has made its automated pricing mechanism available on Currenex’s FXtrades foreign exchange platform.
Summit and CoVision link up for hedge fund trading platform
New York-based transaction processing technology company, Summit Systems, has teamed up with another New York company – investment management firm CoVision Capital Group – to create an investment trading platform specifically geared to hedge funds.
Barclays opts for SunGard’s BancWare
Barclays Bank has implemented SunGard Trading and Risk Systems' BancWare product for its financial risk management activities across the UK, France and Spain.
Flaws, flaws and more flaws
FAS 133 software
A changing operational landscape
Corporate actions
ASPs: new hope or false promise?
Risk analytics
Why outsourcing is in
Back office
Corporate software challenge
Enterprise-wide risk
Brokers break the mould
Market access systems
Making the right technology decisions
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Icap faces SEC scrutiny over Blackbird role
UK inter-dealer broker Icap could face a raft of regulatory probes due to accusations that it bought a minority stake in US electronic brokerage Blackbird to stifle potential competition to its own voice-brokered business.
Specialist managers see more shorting activity
Accounting anomalies and heavy debt mean shorting is on a roll
Quick on the uptake
Systems
Clearing the obstacles
Credit quality is essential to every energy firm’s success, as recent problems at Aquila and Dynegy attest. Couple this with the post-Enron threat of increased regulation for OTC energy derivatives and it is clear that the energy trading market needs…
Reech and Beauchamp launch integrated hedge fund solution
Reech Capital, the London-based supplier of risk management services, has teamed up with software provider Beauchamp Financial Technology (BFT) to offer its RiskHedge risk management engine through BFT's software platform.
FXall customises e-FX trading site for Nestlé
Multi-bank FX trading portal FXall has created a customised trading and information Web platform for the world’s biggest food company, Switzerland's Nestlé.
Reech Capital launches derivatives valuation product
Reech Capital, the London-based supplier of risk management services, has launched FastVal, an independent derivatives valuation service.
SwapsWire eyes October launch
SwapsWire, the inter-dealer interest rate derivatives trading system backed by a consortium of 23 banks, is to launch in October after extensive delays and an entire systems overhaul, according to its chief executive Chip Carver. The system has also…