Technology
High derivatives data traffic plagues market networks
There are growing fears that market data vendors and their networks may face capacity problems due to a sharp increase in derivatives market data traffic caused by jumps in price updates and data feeds from exchanges.
MBRM buys Cygnifi intellectual property rights
MB Risk Management (MBRM), a London-based financial analytics company, has bought the entire intellectual property rights of JP Morgan spin-off Cygnifi Derivative Services from its bankruptcy trustees.
GNI selects SunGard’s Panorama
London-based GNI Fund Management has signed up to use SunGard Trading and Risk Systems' real-time risk management product, Panorama, for its portfolio management and risk reporting activities. GNI Fund Management, which has $529 million under management,…
Problem trades are ‘eating up forex profits’, says SunGard
Nearly a quarter of FX transaction profits are eaten up by ‘exceptions’, or problem trades, according to a survey of 500 financial institutions. The lost margin is a result of staff and compensation costs, said SunGard ePI, the processing unit of US…
onExchange confirms it was bidder for Rolfe & Nolan
onExchange, the US back-office technology company, today confirmed market rumours that it made an offer to buy out UK-based financial technology company Rolfe & Nolan. Although Rolfe & Nolan rejected onExchange’s conditional, indicative offer of 85p per…
Lehman's prime brokerage to offer clients RiskMetrics tools online
Lehman Brothers' global prime brokerage unit will offer RiskMetrics' RiskManager tool to hedge funds, fund of funds and investors via its website, LehmanLive. The RiskManager service features value-at-risk, stress testing and 'what-if' scenario…
Daiwa signs up to use Reech Capital's valuation services
Dublin-based fund administrator, Daiwa Securities Trust and Banking (Europe), has signed a deal with Reech Capital, the London-based risk management technology company, to provide it with regular mark-to-market valuations of the over-the-counter (OTC)…
Merrill Lynch takes Fenics
Merrill Lynch today said it will deploy the Fenics FX options pricing software from New York-based broker and vendor GFI Group in 100 global positions. Fenics replaces Merrill’s existing in-house pricing platform for FX options.
Mexican central bank signs up to OpenLink
Banco de Mexico, the central bank of Mexico, has signed up for OpenLink’s Findur solution to integrate its front-, middle- and back-office functions. OpenLink is a New York-based trading and risk management software company.
Drilling company Transocean to use SunGard’s Quantum
Houston-headquartered offshore drilling contractor, Transocean, plans to install Pennsylvania-based SunGard’s Quantum treasury management system.
SunGard and Miac to offer integrated mortgage risk management software
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, a unit of Pennsylvania-based SunGard, has formed a strategic alliance with New York-based Mortgage Industry Advisory Company (Miac) to develop software that provides treasury departments and mortgage banking units with…
Fidelity rolls out Fix for fixed income
Fidelity Investments - a financial information exchange (Fix) pioneer for equities trading - is extending the connectivity protocol to support fixed-income trading for sell-side counterparties.
Summit releases upgrade to STP suite
Summit Systems, a risk systems and technology vendor headquartered in New York, has released version 3.4 of its Summit straight-through processing modular front- to back-office product suite.
Bearing fruit
Introduction
Bank One updates technology to boost derivatives
Bank One is hoping to expand its global interest rate derivatives trading business by replacing decade-old customised trading software with new off-the-shelf technology.
The power to survive
Energy trading technology
A moving target
Op risk systems
Twist and doubts
Trading standards
Knitting together bank risks
Enterprise-wide risk management
A reality at last
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Arrogance and aftershocks
Software consolidation
Synergy snaps up Cor Risk solution for investment strategy management
Toronto-based Synergy Asset Management (Synergy) has implemented a risk portfolio management tool from London-based software analytics Cor Risk Solutions. Synergy said it has licensed Bita Research and Bits Risk Modeller to support its investment…
FT Interactive Data adds CreditGrades to BondEdge
FT Interactive Data, a provider of securities prices and analytical software, has combined credit risk measurement tools from software provider RiskMetrics to its flagship fixed-income portfolio analysis tool, BondEdge.
Bear Stearns implements new back-office derivatives system
London-based derivatives technology company Rolfe & Nolan has implemented new reconciliation and task management systems for futures and options processing at investment bank Bear Stearns.