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There is no shortage of industry participants who keep attempting to remind us of how the equities markets have evolved, and how FX is trending in the... 04 January 2010

This notion has been most evident in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets for the last 18 months, where the market has thrived on dynamically linked voi... 04 January 2010

The exploding message traffic from algorithmic trading and from smaller average order sizes is not new. What is new, however, is that low interest rat... 04 January 2010

The misappropriation of terminology and a significant amount of confusion are the main reasons why HFT has garnered so much attention in recent months... 04 January 2010

To address these smart order routing challenges Dealing with Technology and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology recently hosted a sponsored webina... 16 November 2009

According to Richard Tibbetts, CTO of StreamBase Systems, deploying a low-latency infrastructure doesn't have to break the bank. "A lot of what goes i... 19 October 2009

Participating in the conference were representatives from the buy side, including Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Investment Bank; OrbiMed Advisors; and Q... 19 October 2009

The major question of the day was whether dark liquidity pools truly lower transaction costs for traders. Panelist James Ross, vice president with NY... 19 October 2009

Predicting the next generation of algorithms is like asking for next Sunday's playbook-nobody wants to show it-and therefore it is difficult to think ... 19 October 2009

"If you don't trust the brokers' functionality or the answers that you are given around where your orders are going and which venues are doing what th... 19 October 2009

In 10 short years, the U.S. marketplace has completed a dramatic transformation as liquidity fragmented away from two dominant exchanges and toward a ... 19 October 2009

Looking not too far down the road, all of these complexities will grow exponentially as support for multi-asset trading gets rolled into the routing a... 05 October 2009

Once there were better quotes away from the primary exchanges, ITG traders needed to access them, and deploying a smart order router provided that acc... 05 October 2009

How would you describe the current generation of smart order routing (SOR)? Harry Gozlan, Smart Trade: Smarter, more proficient and flexible SOR impl... 05 October 2009

BOFA-ML TAKES ORC EXNET In a bid to expand access to its U.S. options algorithmic trading platform globally, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has linked... 05 October 2009

CHI-TECH TO DEPLOY IBM LOW-LATENCY MESSAGING The technology service arm of Chi-X Global, Chi-X Global Technology (Chi-Tech), has signed a deal to ado... 21 September 2009

"It's no different than any other business," explains Jeff Bell, executive vice president, clearing and technology group, with Wedbush Securities. "Cl... 21 September 2009

Is the number of high-frequency trading firms on the rise, or are the barriers of entry still too high for many of them? Doug Kittelsen, FTEN: The nu... 21 September 2009

However, the one sour note is the general public's current fixation on the topic, which is fueled mostly by misunderstanding. Until the public debate ... 21 September 2009

When it comes to fragmented liquidity, the industry is trying to get all that liquidity and put it back into a central place. It is obvious at the bas... 13 July 2009

The original intent of dark venues was to promote an environment where large blocks would be traded, to replicate the "upstairs/downstairs" model in t... 13 July 2009

"We are doing a lot of work to make sure we do the best we can re-aggregating liquidity from an internal perspective across all our different business... 13 July 2009

"Smart order routing is going to be the only way you can trade public stock markets at some point in the future," said Tim Wildenberg, managing direct... 13 July 2009

Third-party solutions are best for those looking at components that depend on speed to market, said Barney Walker, investment bank CTO of global rates... 13 July 2009

On an institutional level the European Commission (E.C.) and the European Union (E.U.) will make proposals for a new E.U. supervisory framework. The s... 13 July 2009

There's always a risk trying to move a successful event from one venue to another. Will there be the same interest in London? Will people be intereste... 13 July 2009

To help navigate the complex waters of implementing real-time risk management, Dealing with Technology, along with sibling publications Buy-Side Techn... 06 July 2009

RTI Launches New Infrastructure-Booth 1309 Middleware vendor Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced the next generation of its messaging infrastru... 22 June 2009

Now, as the markets become more and more complicated and intertwined, traders need to stop focusing on low-level tactical trades and focus on developi... 22 June 2009

For example, for orders coming in from Citi clients, the best avenue for execution might be to direct them into Citi's automated market-maker, explain... 22 June 2009

Has the industry redefined liquidity management in the front office? Has smart order routing taken over liquidity management? David Morgan, SunGard: ... 22 June 2009

SUNGARD DEBUTS ATS SunGard clients now can access another pool of liquidity as the financial technology vendor rolled out today, June 22, its new alt... 22 June 2009

The report is based on an online survey and follow-up interviews of small and mid-sized investment firms with an average of $32 billion in assets unde... 01 June 2009

Paraphrasing financier Warren Buffet, "a low tide has exposed many bad practices in the industry," said Kelso as he presented the keynote during the D... 25 May 2009

After a decade and a half, one might expect an event to hit the occasional clinker, but the DWT conference is growing and thriving when it comes to de... 25 May 2009

Since liquidity has dropped quite substantially in the FX market, those who have smart order routers have benefited, according to Stacy Williams, dire... 25 May 2009

"There have been a significant number of new trading venues, especially equity multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) operated by firms being set up i... 25 May 2009

Rabobank International's enterprise-wide risk systems utilize a mixture of both types of calculations, says Simon Calvert, head of global financial ma... 25 May 2009

"The cloud is being sold as a new technology, but it is more of an evolution as opposed to a revolution," says Ian Alderton, European CIO of Wachovia,... 25 May 2009

Although the products vary for different asset types, most of the tools still require some manual intervention on the trader side, according to Ken Mc... 25 May 2009

When financial technologists broach the topic of latency, the conversation immediately tends to turn to server co-location, hardware-based data accele... 11 May 2009

Knight Capital has spent years working on its latency management strategy, in conjunction with capacity planning and ensuring system uptime. "If our o... 11 May 2009

DWT: How fast is fast enough for firms today? Donal Byrne, Corvil: Firms are primarily interested in relative latency-i.e., how fast they are trading... 11 May 2009

NYSE, CIENA PARTNER FOR 100G NETWORK NYSE Euronext and network provider Ciena Corp. have announced plans to implement a 100Gbps Ethernet network that... 11 May 2009

Phil Albinus, Waters: We have heard a lot about the use of complex eevnt processing (CEP) technology for algorithmic trading, but you say it can also ... 06 April 2009

What do you see as the most common technological pain point for firms beginning to roll out trading algorithms, and how can they solve it? John Bates... 16 March 2009

Broker-dealers like Goldman Sachs experienced a slight rise in high-touch executions when the market's volatility was at its peak in November 2008, bu... 16 March 2009

In this special report, DWT speaks with major algorithmic trading providers Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as well as brokers CA Che... 16 March 2009

APAMA TO DELIVER CO-LOCATED ALGO EXECUTION ON BGC Progress Apama plans to offer automated trade execution to BGC Partners' fixed-income and futures m... 16 March 2009

Legend has it that Alexander the Great solved the Gordian riddle by cleaving the knot in half with his sword. Fortunately or not, this is not an optio... 26 January 2009