System developers rise to challenge of new markets Melanie Wold

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Dedicated single trading platforms will manage risk by wrapping asset classes together
Emerging markets are the next bandwagon for investors seeking instant alpha and front-to-back office trading technology is in demand to manage the risk attached.
With credit crunches and shrinking equity margins making US markets less interesting, issuers [...]

Reuters Taps Cisco, Intel, Sun For Wall Street Trading Platform — Wall Street — InformationWeek

Reuters Taps Cisco, Intel, Sun For Wall Street Trading Platform — Wall Street — InformationWeek
The platform consists of Reuters’ Market Data System — a direct exchange feed system that powers automated trading applications in the financial industry — installed on Sun Microsystems’ rack-mount server with integrated dual-core Intel Xeon processor, and Cisco’s InfiniBand server fabric [...]

Brokers are spoiled for choice with tech-savvy trading platforms

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The world’s most liquid share trading market has fragmented in the past two years to the extent there are 35 execution venues open to US brokers as a new breed of technology-savvy trading platforms present fresh challenges to the top US exchanges, according to a report published [...]