Trading Shorts

Credit Suisse Eggers in Farsight Award
The Farsight Award is a project between the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Gresham College and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, with support from Z/Yen Group Limited. The objective of the Farsight Award is to honour the best individual piece of analysis by an investment research institution that integrates traditional financial analysis with longer-term issues such as climate change, scarcity, corporate governance and human capital.

Waddell & Reed Selects Charles River
Charles River Development (Charles River), an award-winning provider of financial software and services to the global investment management community, today announced that Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company and its affiliates, which have $70 billion in assets under management, have selected the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to provide a new portfolio management system, including for its equity, fixed income and foreign exchange operations.

QuantOffice Integrated with Vhayu Velocity Tick by Deltix
Deltix, Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with Vhayu Technologies, Inc. to provide the Vhayu Velocity™ tick database with Deltix QuantOffice™, enabling users to process, manage and store year’s worth of market data for optimized quant research analysis.“Vhayu’s enterprise class tick database increases the amount of data and intricate analytics available within Deltix QuantOffice/QuantServer product suite

RadarLite from SoftCapital
SoftCapital (SC), a leading independent software vendor, today announced the introduction of the company’s newest trading tool, RadarLite. Designed to run completely in a browser, behaving exactly like an installed application, as well as running on all operation systems aka. Windows, Linux and Apple.

Fair Value By Benchmark Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced the results of recent quantitative research conducted by its Pricing and Reference Data business which compared international mutual funds with relevant benchmark indices. Through statistical analysis, the research revealed that comparing the performance of international mutual funds that use fair value adjustments .

Macalla Powers TSB Text Banking Service
Macalla, leader and innovator in mobile payment solutions, has announced the launch of permanent tsb's mobile banking solution powered by the Macalla Platform."We choose Macalla because of its combined mobile and banking experience. Our decision was a wise one as at each phase of the project their expertise was invaluable," said Tim Bicknell, Head of Current Accounts and Online Development, permanent tsb.

Cordys and CSC Alliance
Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), has formed a strategic alliance with CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, bringing together two of the major players within the BPM sector.The alliance will enable organisations around the globe to benefit from a new breed of innovative business process driven solutions, deployed on the Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP), and

EmployBridge Selects Sungards AvantGard
EmployBridge, a leading US provider of branded, industry-specific staffing solutions, has selected SunGard’s AvantGard to help automate and improve the efficiency of its order-to-cash cycle. The company will use the AvantGard receivables management solution to help improve cash flow, mitigate bad debt expense and minimize operational costs.Effective management of trade receivables is a critical area to target for liquidity management and process improvements

EMVCo Annual User Meeting Announced
EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., has today announced plans to broaden industry participation in the development work of the organisation and establish a regular, formal dialogue between EMVCo and the global payments industry, through the launch of a new website subscription programme and annual user meeting. To be launched during the first quarter of 2009, a new subscription programme delivered through the EMVCo website

TTT Moneycorp Real-time Messaging
SMA Financial, SWIFT Regional partner for UK, Eire and Channel Islands today announced that TTT Moneycorp (Moneycorp), the leading international foreign exchange and payments specialist, has moved to real-time message processing over the SWIFT network using MQ Series.To cope with rapidly expanding business volumes and to automate its payment, banking and treasury services, Moneycorp initially implemented the SMA Bureau Service to send payment messages over the secure SWIFT network.