Processing and technology
| September 21st, 2011 | MarkitSERV Acquires Logicscope to Expand Post-Trade Processing for FX Transactions MarkitSERV, a leading electronic trade processing platform for OTC derivative transactions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Logicscope Limited, a leading provider of post-trade workflow solutions and straight-through-processing (STP) for foreign exchange (FX) transactions. |
| September 6th, 2011 | First Derivatives Announce Strategic Vendor Services Practice |
| September 1st, 2011 | SunGard Acquires FINACE SunGard has completed the acquisition of FINACE, a provider of securities lending and collateral management software, from Swisscom IT Services, part of leading Swiss telecommunications group Swisscom. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard's financial results. |
| August 15th, 2011 | TABB Group Says OTC Derivatives Reform Implementation Will Cause Data Levels to Surge as much as 400% OTC Derivatives Firms Will Spend $3.4 Billion on Clearing and Back-Office Technology in 2011 Meeting the Need for Low Latency, High Throughput and Highly Reliable Messaging |
| August 10th, 2011 | NZX Dairy Futures Participants Gain Access to SunGard’s Derivatives Processing Solutions Clearing participants in NZX’s Global Dairy Futures market will be able to process dairy futures and whole milk powder futures via SunGard’s Stream Clearvision, Stream Ubix and Stream GMI middle- and back-office listed derivatives solutions.
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| August 8th, 2011 | BGC Partners Goes Live on New Thomson Reuters Trade Notification Service for Non-Deliverable Options Thomson Reuters adds NDOs to trade notification service to help clients prepare for upcoming OTC derivatives regulation. |
| June 30th, 2011 | FFastFill plc and WTD Consulting, Inc Partner to Deliver OTC US back-office Clearing platform FFastFill plc (AIM: FFA), the leading provider of Software as a Service (“SaaS”) to the global derivatives community, and WTD Consulting, Inc. a Chicago-based technology consulting and software solutions firm, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver FFastFill’s Eclipse post-trade-processing platform for OTC instruments to the US market. |
| June 20th, 2011 | SunGard to Offer Same Day Securities Lending Data SunGard is now offering same day securities lending data through SunGard’s Astec Analytics Lending Pit solution, helping customers improve price discovery, increase profitability and decrease risk. Broker-dealers and lending agents currently rely on data that is at least one to two days old, making it difficult to monitor the fast moving securities lending market or formulate the optimal trading and investment decisions. |
| June 16th, 2011 | Investment Banks Gain Broader Asset Class Coverage With New Version of Misys Sophis RISQUE
Misys Sophis RISQUE 6.2 Introduces New Security Finance/delta one Capabilities, Improves Operational Efficiency and Adds New Risk Control Tools Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, today announces the availability of Misys Sophis RISQUE 6.2. The latest version of the trading and risk management solution for investment banks significantly improves risk management capabilities, broadens asset class coverage and enhances operational efficiency. |
| February 20th, 2009 | Orc Software Launches New Global Partner Program ? Orc Vantage Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity solutions, today announced its new global partner program, Orc Vantage. The program is designed to provide Orc Software´s existing and future partners with an opportunity to expand their offerings and generate revenue growth through the availability of Orc’s industry leading solutions. |
