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Catching Up with Portware’s Harrell Smith

Sep 3, 2009 @ 12:25 PM By Kerry Massaro,

I caught up with Harrell Smith, Head of Product Strategy for Portware yesterday. We chatted about the world of high frequency trading, of course, as well as what Portware is working on in the coming months. The company has a lot on its plate and according to Harrell, has experienced 40% growth this year despite the woes that most other technology and trading firms are experiencing. That growth is coming from smaller proprietary shops as well as larger sell side institutions. In fact, Harrell said Portware has recently signed on a European-based bulge bracket broker-dealer, which has helped to propel the firm’s growth. He was not at liberty to disclose the firms name until the fall.

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LongView Integrates With NYFIX

Feb 6, 2008 @ 01:54 PM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

Linedata announced its LongView trade order management system (OMS) will now offer integrated access to NYFIX Millennium dark pool and NEXAS, NYFIX’s algorithm suite.

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Fidessa LatentZero and Pipeline Partner on Leak-Proof Integration

Jan 29, 2008 @ 10:53 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

Fidessa LatentZero’s partnership with Pipeline Trading Systems LLC will give buy-side traders the ability to match up large block trading opportunities in Pipeline ATS with orders on their blotter without risking information leakage.

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ITG Releases Triton in Asia Pac

Jan 24, 2008 @ 10:38 AM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

Investment Technology Group (ITG) has launched its Triton execution management system (EMS) for the Asia Pacific region. Buy side traders will have access to more then 30,000 equities across the Asia Pacific markets.

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Goldman Sachs Launches Global Signature Program to Clarify Relationships with Tech Vendors

Dec 10, 2007 @ 04:34 PM By Ivy Schmerken,

Goldman Sachs launched a new program last week to clarify its relationships with external vendors, brokers and service providers so as to enhance their clients trade workflow throughout the execution and clearing process.

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TradingScreen and Axes Partner for Global Execution

Dec 3, 2007 @ 04:00 PM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

TradingScreen and Axes, a global institutional agency broker, have entered into a partnership to connect TradingScreen clients to Axes’ GEMS (Global Execution Management System).

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RealTick Adds Thomas Weisel Execution Services Offerings

Sep 18, 2007 @ 11:47 AM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

Townsend Analytics announced it has added Thomas Weisel Partners’ Weisel Execution Services’ (WES) proprietary algorithms and equities execution services through its RealTick execution management system.

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Portware Opens Hong Kong Office

Aug 24, 2007 @ 10:51 AM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

As overseas markets heat up, Portware announced it will open a Hong Kong office to support expansion in the Asia-pacific region and has appointed Damian Bierman head of Asian operations.

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Fidessa Signs on as Morgan Stanley Preferred Supplier

Aug 13, 2007 @ 10:17 AM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

Morgan Stanley and Fidessa announced an agreement to distribute Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading services through the Fidessa LatentZero Execution Management System.

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Linedata, Goldman Offer Synchronized Blotter

Aug 7, 2007 @ 10:12 PM By An Industry Executive,

By Advanced Trading Contributing Writer Daniel Safarik

Linedata Services' LongView order management system will soon include technology to synchronize its blotter with those of EMSs. The first co-development agreement was struck with Goldman Sachs’ REDIPlus unit, which about 30% of Linedata’s client base also uses, according to Gavin Little-Gill, senior vice president of product management, Linedata. Customers of both platforms will no longer need to manually transfer or upload data between their LongView and REDIPlus blotters, and can rest assured that any change affecting the order in one platform will automatically appear in the other.

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ITG Enters Equity Derivatives Arena With RedSky Acquisition

Jun 11, 2007 @ 12:00 PM By Cristina McEachern Gibbs,

For ITG, the build or buy conundrum for entry into the equity derivatives markets was answered last week when the company announced plans to acquire RedSky Financial.

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Linedata Perfects Trading Interface with the Help of Traders

Jun 6, 2007 @ 03:56 PM By Kerry Massaro,

Linedata Services is crafting a new front-end trading interface, which it is likening to the cockpit of a jet fighter, with all the controls necessary to simply consolidate and navigate the various trading and analytics tools on the buy-side trader’s workstation. Coined Longview Live, the new version is being developed with the input of current Longview users, who had the opportunity to view a sample version at Linedata’s user group meeting two weeks ago.

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Agency Brokerage AXES Launches Global Execution Management System

Apr 18, 2007 @ 04:52 PM By Kerry Massaro,

AXES, a global agency brokerage, has launched a global execution management system to facilitate electronic trading to the over 100 countries it services. The system, called GEMS offers cross-border trading in developed, emerging and frontier markets, notes Peter Gaffney, AXES president.

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