Technology

Aite Group measures North American bank technology executives' admiration of 79 vendors in eight technology categories to gauge future purchase consideration. IBM is the most admired vendor in 4 out of 8 categories examined.

Patsystems is pleased to announce that it is now a Certified ISV for BM&F, the derivatives segment of BM&FBOVESPA, Latin America’s largest exchange. Patsystems will provide direct market access to the exchange for both local and international participants.

As well as direct access, Patsystems also offers access to BM&F products via CME Globex®. This link allows existing CME customers to trade the main BM&F derivatives contracts listed on the Globex® platform.

FINCAD announced today that BNY ConvergEx Group’s Eze Castle Software has added FINCAD analytics to Eze OMS. This integration offers users enhanced functionality for analyzing, valuing and trading OTC derivatives. Eze OMS users now have seamless access to FINCAD’s comprehensive cross-asset class library of more than 1,600 functions for valuing and measuring risk for securities and derivatives directly from the Eze OMS blotter.

Thomson Reuters today announced it has expanded its machine-readable news offering to include unique real-time analysis on key news events, which has the capacity to help predict market volatility and returns. NewsScope Event Indices (NEI) has been developed in conjunction with AlphaSimplex Group and will enable clients to more easily incorporate news into their trading and risk management strategies.

Microgen has today announced that it has added liquidity calculation functionality to its Microgen Accounting Hub (MAH), which is powered by Microgen Aptitude, its market leading Business Process Platform (BPP).

Orc Software (SSE: ORC), the leading global provider of technology for advanced derivatives trading and connectivity solutions, today announced a reseller agreement with New Zealand-based financial services solutions provider Chelmer.

Chelmer has provided trading systems, software development, consultancy and support services to the New Zealand and Australia financial services community since 1988.

With the current state of global markets, financial institutions are facing their most significant challenge in decades. This places increasing pressure on risk management departments to maintain profitability and mitigate risk. SAS, the leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, and FINCAD announced today that SAS® Risk Dimensions® can now leverage FINCAD’s industry standard analytic library addressing the instrument pricing needs of its banking and financial services clients, globally.

Report Published by Celent

Commodities are one of the fastest growing markets. Commodities market solutions can no longer be an add-on or secondary offering. The IT infrastructure involved in trading is an important aspect of the market that is often overlooked.

Algorithmics has released version 4.2 of the Algo FIRST database of case studies. Algo FIRST is a repository of over 8,000 case studies which include in-depth analysis of operational, credit, market, and strategic risk events, in addition to coverage of compliance-related and corporate governance events.

FINCAD and SolveXia today announced that SolveXia has joined the FINCAD Alliance Program to integrate FINCAD’s derivative pricing libraries into its SolvenSeerF+ application. Through this partnership, SolveXia will provide users of SolvenSeer F+ with access to FINCAD’s comprehensive, industry standard, cross-asset risk analytics.