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IBM Unveils Systems For Real-Time Financial Analysis

IBM Monday announced a new round of processors and servers designed to handle to handle real-time analytics in financial markets, where “an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data” have to be handled, in split seconds.

EASi Says Its Software Handles New Proxy Reporting Requirements

Equity Administration Solutions said Monday its stock plan management software has been upgraded to meet new reporting rules for proxy statements, issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission requirements issued on December 16. The Pleasanton, CA, said it is the first software firm to make the necessary enhancements.

Chi-X Canada and Atrium Network Introduce Canada’s First Low Latency Managed Network Solution

Chi-X Canada ATS Limited and Atrium Network, provider of connectivity for the financial community, unveiled plans today to launch the Canadian market’s first live market ecosystem.

Lightower Expanding Services to Equinix NY4 Data Center

Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber network, bandwidth, and colocation service provider serving the northeast United States, and data center services provider Equinix, said today that Lightower is expanding its network services into the Equinix NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Secaucus, N.J.

Icap Fully Acquires TriOptima; Takes Stake in Acadiasoft

London-based Icap, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, said today it has fully acquired TriOptima, the Stockholm-based, post-trade derivatives processing firm, by buying the 61.78 percent remaining shares in TriOptima for $149 million that Icap didn’t already own.

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Guest Comment

One Year In: Embracing the Change

The SEC is cooperating with its regulatory counterpart in the United Kingdom as to the sharing of hedge fund related data and working with international organizations toward gathering consistent and comparable hedge fund data globally, says SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro.

Comment

Emailing It In: No Simple Matter

Your securities firm operates in 30 countries. That means the email you exchange with customers, business partners and service suppliers has to abide by the storage, retrieval and compliance laws of 30 nations. Right? Wrong.

Original Sources

What Is the End Game for the “End User” Exemption?

Regulators and legislators, some of whom equate energy derivatives with the credit default derivatives that spiked the financial crisis, want mandatory, regulated central clearing of all “standardized” derivatives.

Viewpoints

Q&A: ConvergEx Shines its Light on Expanding Dark Pools

For ConvergEx Group, long a supplier of investment and execution technology to institutional clients, the past several months have been quite eventful. It's become a full-fledged operator of dark pools, for starters.

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UPTICK
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

The New Audit: Security

Companies on Wall Street and off have long been required and gotten used to the requirement that their financial condition be audited every quarter and every year by independent, professional eyes. Don't be surprised, however, if annual reports and filings with the SEC in the not-too-distant future include a second opinion.

TRADING SPACES
Alexa Jaworski

High Performance Databases: A Tool for Quant Traders

As firms continue to add new trading areas and struggle to meet regulatory requirements, high performance databases are becoming increasingly vital.

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