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.
TS-3000i TimeSync Web-based Clock
[ Source: Amano Cincinnati, Inc. ]
May 2009-
Amano�s innovative TS-3000i turn-key web based clock provides users with automatic time synchronization for validated time. This clock will run on its own by employing easy-to-use resident time synchronization schedules with a back-up system that sends e-mail notification and SNMP trap alerts. It also generates time sync reports on events for a potential audit. The TS-3000i will provide the end user with savings in time, effort and money! Time synching clocks are used by ....
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 ....
Investing in Risk: The Enduring Legacy of the Subprime Meltdown
[ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
February 2008-
Developing an effective firmwide risk management strategy requires a shift in mindset on several fronts. First and foremost, it requires an immediate and enduring shift in corporate culture to enforce accountability at the highest levels for understanding and managing firm exposures. Second, effective firmwide risk management requires executive-level willingness and commitment to invest in the requisite infrastructure to accurately measure firm exposures, including how the firmwide portfolio will react to a variety of ....
Excel That Scales - Solution Brief
[ Source: GigaSpaces Technologies ]
January 2008-
In the Financial Services industry, high-end Excel-based applications require the ability to handle large volumes of data and process it very fast. Traders’ spreadsheets end up with huge amounts of data, running extremely complex calculations. This results in lost productivity due to overloading of the desktop CPU, long processing time and frequent crashes. Collaboration between multiple Excel users and the ability to scale becomes virtually impossible. This solution brief describes a joint Microsoft-GigaSpaces solution ....
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 ....
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 ....
The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
[ Source: Progress Software ]
September 2009-
Forrester Research, Inc. has named the Progress® Apama® complex event processing (CEP) platform as a standout leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009"(August 2009) Report. In this detailed review of products, the Apama platform received the top score in current offering and market presence.
According to the report: "Progress Apama earned high marks for its event processing features, its development tools, and its business end-user tools, propelling it into its ....
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development at Sybase, on Information Delivery
[ Source: Sybase ]
July 2008-
Managing and sustaining a continuous flow of data in a low latency environment is critical to organizations in the capital markets industry. Learn about successful strategies for delivering information to the point of use, across multiple groups, so that actual portfolio and trading decisions can be made in real time.