Algorithmic Trading Archive

The Stock Exchange of Thailand has committed to facilitating greater levels of algorithmic trading on its market, after reporting a significant rise in electronic trading flow during the first half of 2010. read more>

Investment bank Morgan Stanley has appointed Takayuki Saito as head of electronic trading in Japan. read more>

Financial software provider StreamBase has entered into a partnership with Brazilian trading technology company Alphastream, to capitalise on the growing demand for electronic trading in Brazil. read more>

US trading venue Direct Edge has selected latency intelligence firm Correlix to provide its customers with information on the latency levels for its order execution and market data flow. read more>

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has extended its exchange-traded fund specific algorithm to clients. read more>

Trading technology provider SunGard has purchased US broker-dealer Fox River Execution to build on its algorithmic trading offering and complement its Valdi multi-asset class trading suite. read more>

Agency brokerage and trading technology provider ITG has extended its European algorithmic offering to cover markets in Israel, Hungary and Poland. read more>

US buy-side traders continue to increase their reliance on algorithmic trading at the expense of sales traders despite higher volatility in recent months. read more>

Pipeline Trading Systems, a US-based buy-side only crossing network operator, has launched Alpha Pro in the US and Europe, a tool designed to help traders tailor their trading process from pre-trade analysis to execution performance monitoring. read more>

?Brazilian broker Ágora Corretora de Titulos e Valores Mobiliarios, a division of Banco Bradesco, has launched a new suite of proprietary algorithms for equities and options running on Progress Apama’s capital markets platform. read more>