ITRS Group Newsletter |
December 2009 |
Welcome to the first edition of our new electronic newsletter where we look at the implication for banks' support teams that up to 60% of total US futures volumes in 2010 are likely to be executed on an automated basis. We track progress on new FSA liquidity risk regulations, where system monitoring and performance management will play a key role in firms' strategic responses, and deliver ITRS stories, hot tips and updates to ensure you get the best out of our products and services.
Patrick McVeigh, ITRS Global Marketing Director
A message from Stephen Bates - CEO and co-founder of ITRS
Stephen Bates, CEO and co-founder of ITRS, reflects on a year of rapid growth and exciting product advancements at ITRS.
This has been an exciting year for ITRS, with significant developments in the Geneos product line that allow our clients to apply more instrumentation and gain even more control of their trading and risk applications.
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What's new in Europe?
Kevin Covington, Managing Director, ITRS Europe explains how the focus for European firms is on using ITRS to help them handle external regulation and internal audit:
"In Europe, we are seeing customers deploy ITRS solutions to help them meet external regulation from both compliance and reporting perspectives, and to address more far-reaching internal audit requirements."
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What's new in the US?
Joanne Kinsella, Managing Director, ITRS America, describes how increasing automation and algorithmic trading are driving growth in the US, and how ITRS is allowing them to offer more sophisticated services to clients with confidence.
What's new in Asia
Thibaud Langlet, Managing Director, ITRS Asia discusses the significant moves towards automation and straight-through processing being made in Asia, and the way in which ITRS is helping firms maintain performance and profitability.
ADG case study
London-based ADG is a rapidly growing proprietary trading, market-making and brokerage house. Continued expansion was placing additional requirements on operations and technical support staff. Head of Operations and Technology, Greg Smart, had the almost impossible task of keeping up with technology requests from traders while ensuring the smooth operation and availability of critical applications.
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ITRS enables automated support for algorithmic trading
Algorithmic trading is powering growth in trading volumes. Profitability will depend on the ability to reliably operate high-speed trade execution infrastructures. We look at how ITRS' performance management capabilities are helping our clients provide automated support that can identify and rectify problems before they become critical.
Latest on liquidity risk reporting from FSA demands action
On 5 October, the FSA published Policy Statement 09/16, outlining the reforms to be made to the UK liquidity regime. We look at how ITRS can play a part in ensuring firms are able to deliver on the more intense reporting that will be required.
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Hot Buttons
In this newsletter, we share five useful features that you may not know about, covering our File Keyword Monitor (FKM) plug-in, JMX Commands, Gateway 2 on Solaris x86, Feed Latency Monitor (FLM) plug-in and Oracle Coherence monitoring.
Three top tips on upgrading to Gateway 2, training and launching a putty session from Active Console
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How do I convert from Gateway1 to Gateway2? Do I need to upgrade any other components?
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What training does ITRS offer?
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How do I launch a terminal emulator session from the Active Console?
More news from ITRS
ITRS appoints its first global marketing director, and is recognised as one of Britain's most successful technology companies with its inclusion in this year's Microsoft Tech Track 100, as well as preparing for the launch of its "Managed by Geneos" global alliance programme.
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