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t may take time for financial business applications to catch up with consumer ease of use, partly because the business is more complex and the amounts at risk are far larger, but it does occur on a regular basis, especially … Continue reading →

Paul L. Kasriel Econtrarian, LLC econtrarian@gmail.com 1-920-818-0236   December 21, 2012   Festivus Stocking Stuffers   Since I retired at the end of April, I have been having a lot of problems with you people. So, as Festivus is nearly … Continue reading →

Instinet, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its Instinet, LLC subsidiary has been named a “Preferred Broker” by FactSet, a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global investment … Continue reading →

Exegy, Inc., the market data systems company, announced today that the MarketDataPeaks.eu website hit a new record peak of 321,000 messages per second. The Exegy Ticker Plants in the colocation facilities in Europe that drive the MarketDataPeaks.eu website hit this processing peak at … Continue reading →

 London, 1st August 2012, Gresham Computing plc, a leading provider of transaction control solutions to international financial institutions, today announced that its reconciliation solution Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) has achieved unprecedented transaction processing times in a series of benchmarking tests conducted with … Continue reading →

 Pragma Securities, an independent algorithmic trading boutique, today announced recommendations for market structure changes, which would reduce the amount investors lose in trading costs. The recommendations are based on recent Pragma research showing that when High Frequency Trading (HFT) market … Continue reading →

IDF isn’t for the faint-hearted — this is a real developers conference, although some of the Intel executive keynotes are fairly general and discuss industry directions, future impacts and a lot of gee-whiz stuff…A lot of the content looks out … Continue reading →

YarcData Inc., a Cray company that is focused on providing “Big Data” graph analytics solutions to enterprise customers, today announced the official start of the YarcData Graph Analytics Challenge, which features $100,000 in prizes. Announced earlier this month, the YarcData Graph … Continue reading →

A survey of institutional investors and members of corporate finance departments by EDHEC-Risk Institute shows that the issuance of inflation-linked bonds may provide a solution to both corporations and institutional investors.  For investors, inflation-linked corporate debt could be an ideal instrument for hedging their … Continue reading →