Operations & Technology Archive

Financial technology company SunGard has extended its Fox River suite of algorithms to cover the Canadian equities market as well as the US, enabling institutional investors in the two countries to profit more easily from inter-listed equities and access a larger pool of liquidity. read more>

Post-trade solutions provider Traiana has added a number of new sell-side firms to its Harmony contract-for-difference equity swap network, which it says will facilitate greater investment in emerging markets. read more>

Financial technology providers TORA and Linedata have separately released two solutions designed to meet the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission new requirements for disclosing short positions. read more>

Post-trade processing services firm Omgeo has added new capabilities to its Omgeo ProtoColl solution, which provides automated collateral management, to help market participants prepare for global reforms to OTC derivatives trading. read more>

The first meeting of a new independent industry body focused on post-trade issues, the Asia Clearing Council, will take place on 15 June in Hong Kong. read more>

Japanese broker Nissan Century Securities has chosen a trading platform from technology provider Fidessa to begin trading Japanese cash equities. read more>

The Euroclear CSDs of Belgium, France and the Netherlands have agreed to sign up to the TARGET2-Securities framework agreement.

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Traders working in Chinese now have their own version of the Thomson Reuters Eikon desktop. read more>

Central counterparty clearing for OTC instruments may not make financial markets any safer, a team of J.P. Morgan analysts contend. read more>

Financial data management solution provider Asset Control has expanded its Asian footprint with the opening of an office in Japan and hiring of Hidet Kobayashi as country manager. read more>