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Information Mosaic awarded 2013 SWIFT Certified Application

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

 Information Mosaic, a post-trade software company, has been granted the 2013 SWIFT Certified Application labels for Securities Settlement and Corporate Actions for. the ninth consecutive year.  Under the SWIFT Certified Application program for 2013, Information Mosaic has demonstrated its ability … Continue reading →

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iStar Financial Tracks Financials With XLeratorDB

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

When senior executive at iStar Financial meet for strategic planning, their focus  almost always includes a review of numbers. A leader in commercial real estate investments, it has completed more than $35 billion of commercial real estate investments over the … Continue reading →

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Citi Brings Mobile Access To Trade Finance Application

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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Fiscal Cliff — Little More than a Speedbump

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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Instinet Tops As Preferred Broker – FactSet

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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European Markets Hit New Peaks with ECB Press Confab

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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Gresham’s CTC reconciles transactions

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

 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 →

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HFT Costs Long-Term Investors — Pragma Research

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

 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 →

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Intel Developer Forum Coming In Early September

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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Cray Subsidiary Starts Graphing Contest

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

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 →

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