Ex-Goldman MD Is New Head of Equities Tech Liquidnet, a block liquidity and investment network services provider, reports that it has named Sujay Telang as its new head of equities technology. Telang is a former Goldman Sachs managing director and an electronic trading executive, the vendor notes. Liquidnet officials call their new hire the “latest… Read More >>
TORA Expands Outsourced Trading Team
TORA Adds Two New York-Based Traders A provider of outsourced trading systems, TORA, maker of a cloud-based order and execution management system (O/EMS), reports the addition of two traders to its outsourced trading team: Mark Mazor and Joe Zonenshine. Mazor has more than 15 years of experience as a trader, working as a global execution… Read More >>
NYSE Trading Floor to Reopen May 26
NYSE President Announces Floor Reopening via WSJ The open outcry trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will partially reemerge “slowly and carefully” on May 26, according to Stacey Cunningham, president of the NYSE, who made the announcement via an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, published May 14 The return of… Read More >>
Northern Trust’s Client Portal Gets a Cloud Makeover
Online Report Center Will Become a Cloud Service Northern Trust is relaunching a client-facing portal, the Online Report Center, as a cloud-based service with a redesigned user interface, officials say. The revamped service “is currently in its beta phase with a select group of clients. The full release for all clients will be available later… Read More >>
Nasdaq Data Now Available via Cloud Service
Exchanges operator Nasdaq recently hit a COVID-19 speed bump as it was preparing to launch its Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS), which uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide access to real-time exchange data, indexes, and fund data. Before a full launch, Nasdaq had to find out if the implementation of the new offering would… Read More >>
SS&C: Client-Facing Data Must Be Ready Sooner
(Editor’s note: Al Castillo, senior director, solutions management, Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS), has an idea why there is a major move to cloud-based managed services among SS&C Advent’s customer base. “As such, it’s an easy decision to pivot the deployment responsibility to a provider that has the knowledge and experience — and we’re seeing this… Read More >>
Cyber-Security Is a Big Ops Concern: Q&A
(FTF News interviewed Steve Steffy, director of operations at Trilogy Global Advisors during the SS&C Deliver customer conference of SS&C Technologies in Las Vegas last month. Based in Winter Park, Fla., Trilogy is a boutique firm that specializes in emerging markets equities. Trilogy’s portfolios are a mix of both traditional growth companies and early-stage growth… Read More >>
Firms Want Scalability via Cloud-Based Ops: Q&A
(Some financial services firms are still reluctant to hand over control of key aspects of back-office operations, says Al Castillo, senior director, solutions management at SS&C Advent, in his recent interview with FTF News. However, the scalability that the cloud provides usually wins them over. Castillo is responsible for the North American cloud delivery and… Read More >>
Firms Are Moving Fast to Public Clouds: Survey
Much has been made about how financial services firms have heartily embraced private cloud computing but it appears that they are now ready to put their money where their mouth is as far as public clouds, according to the results of a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Reuters global survey of senior IT… Read More >>