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 [...]

Power of CPU, GPU and FPGA for ultimate ultra low latency trading system !

I hear that some Hedge Funds and Institutional Investors are going beyond HFT trading by doing Parallel programming of heterogeneous systems using power of CPU, GPU and FPGA for ultimate ultra low latency trading system. This system enqables them to complete the trading process in couple of micro seconds, till date its the fast system [...]

Will you hand over your secret high-frequency trading codes to SEC & FINRA?

U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their secret computer codes.   The requests for proprietary code and algorithm parameters by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a Wall Street brokerage regulator, are part of investigations [...]

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 [...]

FPGA technology into the ultra low latency space. The Next Wave of HFT Technology?

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology continues to gain momentum in Stock Trading for Ultra low latency connectivity and high-frequency trading (HFT) solutions. This new technology invented by Xilinx,  have gone from being simple glue logic chips to actually replacing custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and processors for signal processing and control applications. Because FPGAs run as an [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Investment Banking Applications and Devices a must !

With rise of handheld computing devices, Tablets, Smartphone or web connected mobile phones, Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices to manage and monitor their investment activities. Modern devices like iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows 7 Phone, Tablets, Android phone have made it easy for users to check their watch list, view real time quotes, study research [...]