Tag: program trading

Buy-side traders are struggling to align their execution capabilities with the objectives of portfolio managers because of the single-stock focus of trading tools and execution venues, according to a new report from research and consulting firm TABB Group.

Weeden & Co, a full-service institutional broker, and Pragma Financial Systems, a quantitative financial technology provider, have launched OnePipe Plus, a liquidity aggregator for displayed and non-displayed US trading venues.

Inter-dealer broker ICAP’s historical tick data is now available through market data vendor Thomson Reuters.

Market makers are more effective than electronic order books in delivering price improvement on Nasdaq-listed stocks, according to a new report by financial research and consulting firm Celent.

Tora Trading Services, an electronic trading solutions provider for Asia, has appointed Peter Lewis as managing director of Tora’s New York office.

Investment bank UBS has outlined plans for expansion in its Middle East operations to help accelerate its growth in the region.

QuantHouse, a trading solutions provider, has announced that Société Générale Asset Management Alternative Investments (SGAM AI) is to use QuantFACTORY to develop, back-test and execute trading models.

Business communications provider Colt is to provide low latency access to pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise.

A combination of high levels of automation, soaring market data volumes and cut-throat competition have turned trade execution in the US equity markets into a “complex science”.

The Nasdaq OMX Group has started customer testing for its pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF), scheduled to launch in September.