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Milestone Group supports Skandia’s income distributions and reconciliations with pControl

6 March 2012
Phase two of pControl roll out enhances efficiency and risk management...

Quartet FS launches new real-time in-memory alert system

6 March 2012
Sentinel integrates with the ActivePivot suite of analytics products to provide intelligent monitoring and alerts with video capability...

MahiFX now available to retail FX clients

6 March 2012
Platform gives retail FX customers access to same tight spreads and cutting edge technology as institutional FX traders...

J.P. Morgan holds top spot in Europe fixed-income research, survey finds

6 March 2012
Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch make huge advances in Institutional Investor's survey...

Saxo Bank to leverage Rapid Addition’s low latency FIX engine

6 March 2012
Saxo is leveraging RA–Cheetah™ as its FIX Protocol engine which remains the world's lowest latency solution...

SunGard’s Valdi provides connectivity to the ASX’s PureMatch service

5 March 2012
Market participants will need to connect to the alternative trading venues in order to provide the best execution to their clients...

DDV launches English-language website

5 March 2012
Deutscher Derivate Verband (DDV) launches its new English-language information portal for European institutions and partner associations...

Russian exchange enjoys FX boom

2 March 2012
Micex-RTS, Russia's newly merged stock and derivatives exchange operator, has enjoyed a jump in liquidity since pooling its competing dollar/rouble currency contracts...

Traiana extends Harmony CreditLink to FX options

2 March 2012
Digital Vega first trading platform on the service with support of FX Prime Brokers Citigroup and Morgan Stanley...

HSBC selects Dovetail for Sepa processing

2 March 2012
HSBC has selected technology from Dovetail for its European volume payments system as it prepares for the Sepa migration deadline...

Exchange competition and HFT get hostile reception in UK market review

29 February 2012
Asset managers question the wisdom of opening national stock markets to competition...

Thomson Reuters offloads Portia to SS&C

29 February 2012
Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell off Portia, its middle-to-back office investment operations platform, to SS&C Technologies for $170 m...

Commerzbank boosts its etrading offering

29 February 2012
Commerzbank Corporates and Markets (C&M) has officially unveiled its enhanced eFX platform, Commander...

Bloomberg unveils its NEXT terminal

28 February 2012
NEXT platform is intended to give traders and financial services end users faster, deeper insights into the markets...

SunGard unveils Hedge360

28 February 2012
Hedge360 is an integrated, hosted service that supports the complete investment lifecycle for hedge funds and alternative asset management firms...