VitalVest launches hedge fund middle-office solutions

VitalVest has unveiled Hedge Fund Middle Office, a suite of operational solutions for hedge funds operating in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Hedge Fund Middle Office includes a range of scalable, modular post-trade and pre-settlement services. The services are global and include technology solutions that help manage daily trade processing and profit-and-loss reporting, over-the-counter [...]

GPU (CUDA) supercomputing technologies for real-time financial trading and risk

First it was FPGA technology now its time for (GPU programming / high performance computing HPC) Graphical Processing Unit  supercomputing technologies. GPU supercomputing is perfect for Trading Systems for its ability to speed up many types of financial calculations. GPU (CUDA) supercomputing technologies has  made significant inroads into financial analytics and risk arena what looks like a silent revolution on Wall Street. [...]

Oracle’s Java for Trading Systems Development, Speed and Performance?

After Sun its Oracle turn to try out novel development using Java. Oracle is focusing on building a Java-based pre-engineered trading bundle this year in order to facilitate fast deployment and “fewer moving parts” to deal with for its customers. This development is aimed at tackling the challenge of performance versus time to market in the low latency trading architecture space. It would [...]

Future trends and technology investment for High Speed and Secure Trading System!

The financial services industry has changed drastically and evolved greatly owing to the economic crisis, regulatory issues, competitive pressures and increasing customer needs. Today, IT plays a significant role as a major operative and competitive requirement for financial institutions. Thus changing the future trends and technology investment in Mobile Trading applications and High frequency trading [...]

VitalVest specializes in Secondary Private Market Technology Advisory, Execution and Processing

Secondary liquidity is critical to driving a fast moving enterprise’s growth. There are many Secondary Private Markets or Marketplace for Alternative Investments that provide liquidity if needed by offering secondary placement, to name a few are GATE Technologies, SecondMarket, SharesPost, Xpert Financial, MissionMarkets, NYPPEX etc. These so called Secondary Private Markets or Second Markets suffer from lack of a centralized marketplace [...]

Investment banks and Hedge fund firms rely on VitalVest for their Financial Services/Computer IT Consulting

Chief information officer (CIO), or information technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals. In Financial Services and Investment Banking, an industry focused on data and financial analysis, technology is as much a part [...]

Volcker Rule …. understanding and implementing it

The proposals are named after their creator, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress adopted a ban on proprietary trading and restricted investment in hedge funds and private equity by commercial banks and their affiliates, the so-called “Volcker Rule.” The newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and the [...]

Dodd-Frank Act deadline nearing, is your company in compliance?

July 21 deadline for  Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is approaching.  With the Dodd-Frank deadline nearing, it is important that you evaluate whether the systems, processes and people you have in place can support the many requirements of the rule, including greater transparency and disclosure mandated by the reform. And the Impact of Dodd-Frank [...]