Technology
CMXchange and Opt4Derivatives partner for OTC metals trading
Illinois-based Commodities Management Exchange (CMXchange), an electronic metals exchange, and Berkeley-based technology firm Opt4Derivatives are to launch CMXflexclear, an electronic market-place for trading and matching over-the-counter (OTC)…
SunGard acquires Kronos Software
Pennsylvania-based technology firm SunGard Trading and Risk Systems has acquired London-based Kronos Software, the real-time risk management and trading solutions provider.
SuperDerivatives adds deal capture facility
SuperDerivatives, a UK-based online foreign exchange pricing firm, has added a deal capture facility linking its currency options pricing service to back-office risk management systems. SuperDerivatives said the feature has been added due to client…
DrkW boosts data services with PFS deal
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, has signed a licensing agreement with PFS Trader Tools to use its DS2000 gateway for real-time data dissemination from its London, Frankfurt, Singapore and New York…
Kiodex secures second round of financing
Kiodex, a New York-based provider of Web-based energy risk management solutions, has secured an additional $10 million in financing from Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm. The firm originally invested $15 million in April 2001. It plans to…
Refco signs up TradeTrac for forex
Refco, the world's largest non-bank futures commission merchant, has signed up TradeTrac for its foreign exchange activities. TradeTrac provides front-, middle- and back-office risk management services, and was developed by risk technology firms…
RMS offers indexes for structuring weather derivatives
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based weather risk software and data firm, has started publishing regional weather indexes for the US on its website, www.climetrix.com. The indexes provide the weather derivatives market with a new benchmark…
Bank of America to roll out derivatives system
Bank of America (BofA) is building a new derivatives trading platform called Advantage, which will be deployed in its Chicago, London, and Tokyo offices. It is also developing new trading floors in London’s Canary Wharf, New York, and Charlotte, North…
Egar adds options component to equity derivatives suite
Egar Technology, the New York-based supplier of trading and risk management systems, whose best-known client is Canada's CIBC, has released a real-time equity options trading and risk management service developed for market makers.
Aurora buys Cygnifi Analytics
Aurora Software, a New York-based technology firm for fixed-income trading, has bought the Cygnifi Analytics Library. Cygnifi, the New York-based online derivatives service provider spun-off from JP Morgan in 1999, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy…
Risk tech firms partner to develop forex trading product
Risk technology firms, Pennsylvania-based Financial Software Systems (FSS), and New York-based PFS Trader Tools, said today that they are working together to develop a Web-based foreign exchange trading service. The risk management tool, branded…
SS&C expands derivatives valuation system
SS&C Technologies, a Connecticut-based financial software provider, yesterday made available a new equity swaps module for its debt and derivatives accounting and valuation application.
NTC joins forces with Algo in bid to meet Basel II
Chicago-based multi-bank holding company, Northern Trust Corporation (NTC) has teamed up with Canadian risk management software provider, Algorithmics, to enhance NTC's enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) engine to meet key Basel II requirements.
Prediction Dynamics launches hedge fund modelling platform
Prediction Dynamics, the Dublin-based trading and risk management software vendor, launched its Crucible1.0 financial time-series modelling platform today at the Seventh European Conference on Hedge Fund Investments, in Geneva, Switzerland.
CBA buys Ubitrade derivatives solution
Sydney-based Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has bought French software firm Ubitrade's futures and options package for use across its trading operations in Sydney.
DBS signs up to Front for credit derivatives
Singapore's largest bank, DBS, is to install Front Arena software to support its credit trading activities, including credit derivatives and credit basket trading. Front Arena was developed by Front Capital Systems, an operating unit of SunGard.
ING Direct selects BancWare for ALM
ING Direct, the telephone/internet banking arm of Dutch group ING, has implemented a suite of SunGard Trading and Risk Systems' BancWare products to manage global interest rate risk in three countries.
Icap offers eurobond e-broking
UK inter-dealer broker Icap has extended its e-broking offering to include euro-denominated eurobonds, but has yet to offer interest rate swaps - its dominant trading product.
Siam Commercial signs to ActiveBank.net
Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has adopted UK-based Financial Objects' ActiveBank.net system to support its treasury operations in Singapore and Hong Kong, and its offshore loan business in Bangkok.
Rolfe & Nolan to launch RANorder Pro
UK derivatives systems provider, Rolfe & Nolan (R&N), is poised to launch a new trade-order entry system for institutional traders called RANorder Pro.
Latest patsystems ceo faces non-confidence vote
Shareholders of London-based electronic trading connectivity and front-end vendor, patsystems, have called for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to seek the removal of David Jones as chief executive.
KWI builds product development team
London-based KWI, a supplier of trading and risk management systems for the energy markets, has made two new appointments to enhance its product development team and to increase the functionality of its flagship product, kW3000.
Bank of China, CCB roll out Misys’ Opics suite
Bank of China and China Construction Bank (CCB) are rolling out London-based Misys International Banking Systems' Opics treasury and capital markets software suite. The service will provide both institutions with a straight-through processing (STP)…
Fimat signs up for Egar's energy trading system
Fimat, the US-based brokerage firm, has signed up to Egar Technology’s Focus system for trading energy and commodity derivatives. Egar is a New York-based technology firm that offers trading systems for over-the-counter and exchange-traded interest rate…