High Performance Excel-Based Applications in Financial Services
[ Source: GigaSpaces Technologies ]
August 2007-
This paper describes a comprehensive solution based on Microsoft and GigaSpaces
technologies that addresses scalability and performance challenges with Excel-based applications in
securities and capital markets industry. The solution combines the latest Microsoft technologies,
including Office Excel, Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, User Defined Functions, and
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform to deliver
unparalleled usability, performance, and scalability.
Advent Moxy® - Trade Order Management System
[ Source: Advent Software ]
July 2007-
Debra Wentworth, Boston Private Value Investors, Inc., discusses the benefits of Advent Moxy®, from increased time savings to enhanced trading workflow and improved trading accuracy.
The Need for Multi-Prime Brokers
[ Source: Paladyne Systems ]
October 2006-
In the fast changing and demanding world of hedge funds, managers continue to chase opportunities by expanding into strategies that promise higher returns, while managing their operating costs. At the heart of any hedge fund’s operations is its dependency on the prime broker—or as is the case in most leading funds, dependency on multiple prime brokers. For smaller managers the structural challenges of adding a second or third prime can be prohibitive and many prefer ....
THE NEXT GENERATION PRIME BROKER
[ Source: Paladyne Systems ]
October 2007-
As the hedge fund industry continues its rapid growth and assets pour in at record levels amid rising institutional allocations, industry dynamics are changing significantly. Recent high-profile blow-ups have led to calls for increased operational scrutiny and transparency of investment processes. Managers have been forced to upgrade their operations and accounting infrastructures amidst intense cost pressures. Competition for investors has moved managers away from traditional investments into emerging markets and over-the-counter products which has created ....
Hedge Fund Portfolio Pricing Best Practices
[ Source: Paladyne Systems ]
May 2008-
Hedge fund pricing has always been, at best, a highly inconsistent and unreliable process. The hedge fund industry has never been required to adopt a standard policy for valuing securities, especially the private, illiquid, and over-the-counter asset classes. However, recent market volatility and mounting pressure from institutional investors has forced hedge fund managers to focus on the adoption of a standardized pricing and valuation methodology. More recently, the issue of pricing ....
Algorithmic Trading
[ Source: Vhayu Technologies ]
June 2006-
Vhayu Enables Faster Algo Executions for Leading Broker Dealers
The Data Management Challenge of Quantitative Analysis
[ Source: Vhayu Technologies ]
May 2008-
Presentation and panel discussion by:
• Sang Lee, Co-founder & Managing Partner / Aite Group
• Alex Perel, Trader, Equity Arbitrage / TD Newcrest
• David Wilson, Product Manager / Vhayu Technologies
Enabling Market Data Distribution in Hardware
[ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008-
With the rising volume of market data, it is becoming more critical for financial service firms to maintain low-latency. Today's software-based solutions support only limited traffic, which means that firms are continuously deploying new servers that come with large costs including: capital outlay and software licensing and deployment, maintenance and datacenter resources. Financial services firms that take this approach discover that there are many challenges when deploying multiple servers as there is an inherent unpredictability ....
The Advantages of Enabling Order Execution in Hardware
[ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008-
In order to avoid lost opportunities and customers, sell-side firms need to guarantee the rapid delivery of trade-related messages to avoid lost and late messages through back-office order processing systems. Traditionally, firms have relied on software- and server-based systems to process trades. With the increasing volume of orders, the widespread adoption of algorithmic trading systems and the demand for lower latency, existing systems are not able to keep up with the demand. Solace Systems' hardware ....
Low Latency and Private Optical Networks Equals Faster ROI
[ Source: Ciena ]
August 2008-
Financial markets firms are overwhelmed by market data and need to build applications and infrastructure that can deliver high performance and ultra low latency to source liquidity pools, execute trades, analyze risk and maintain a real-time order book. To be competitive, firms must receive data from direct exchange feeds and then push that data throughout the enterprise, explains Tom Rice, Research Director, TowerGroup. Firms of all sizes are turning to private fiber optic networks that ....