Tradier partners with ETNA to accelerate launch

Charlotte, North Carolina – April 19, 2013 — Financial services cloud provider Tradier announced today that it has entered into a strategic technology relationship with ETNA to provide key components and platform development services for its core platform. This marks a considerable milestone in the upcoming launch of Tradier. Tradier offers an innovative set of…

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Typical software structure of a Broker-Dealer

Every broker dealer has three departments: Front-Office Middle-Office Back-Office Sometimes, middle-office and back-office are merged into the single department where the functions of middle-office are split between front-office and back-office.

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What is a Binary Option

Binary options (also called “Fixed Return Options”, “FRO”, or digital) are popular in the OTC market for hedging. They are also useful for speculators and for other traders to construct complex derivatives portfolios. The payoff for these kinds of options is fixed. Buyers can get a fixed amount of cash or assets in case the…

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Web Sockets: Work Together With Messaging Queue

Web sockets provide a reliable and easy-to-implement way to connect web clients with business applications which use messaging queues for inter-module communication. This approach may also reduce costs for integration and end user client by using an existing infrastructure. We were very excited with using web sockets for the ChoiceTrade trading platform (they are used…

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Trading socialized

Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a Mayor; your @girlfriend bought lettuce; the @person-you-do-not-even-know twitted about a terrible hangover and Lady Gaga released a…

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White Paper: SaaS & SOA in Retail Banking

Global challenges force financial organizations to seek a new technology foundation for business. The combination of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides ultimate expandability cost effectively and unlimbers organizations for SaaS rapid change. ETNA has introduced an effective way for retail banks to design and redesign business processes using SaaS & SOA in a…

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White Paper: Silverlight Out of Browser

This whitepaper describes programming and design aspects for installation and customization of Silverlight functioning out of browser. With the advent of the latest Silverlight business application-focused enhancements, large-scale interfaces and associated tooling provided by Visual Studio and Expression Studio, a developer is in a position to build this type of application rapidly and enjoy benefits…

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Choosing OMS

«OMS» or Order Management System is an application developed to execute orders in the fastest and the most efficient way. Order execution is not the only purpose of an OMS, of course, but the most important one. While a lot of worthy OMSs operate in the market, none of them fits all possible requirements hundred- per- cent. What issues should be taken into consideration when a person takes a decision on buying…

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Grocery Versus your Hotbed

You badly need tomatoes for your ‘Bloody Mary’ today. This is an issue. You can go to a grocery and order them there or build your own hotbed, buy seeds and start growing. This is the choice you have to make when starting on something that requires a couple of lines of code. Or couple…

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