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Progress® Apama® capital market platform puts control in the hands of your team so they can create, test, deploy, and proprietary algorithmic trading strategies. Learn more about the issues and technologies affecting capital marketing by reading through our broad selection of articles, white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.

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Keeping a Watchful Eye on the Markets

If you see something, say something. This article presents thoughts on how nosiness and surveillance can pay off but the fix may not be more rules and regulations. It may be real time market surveillance technology that can be used to monitor and detect patterns that indicate potential market abuse, such as insider trading or market manipulation. Written by Dr. Giles Nelson and published by TABBFORUM.

BM&F Bovespa Sets Its Sights on Growth

BM&F Bovespa, Latin America’s largest exchange, has become a Mecca for the international electronic trading community, while at the same time catering to the growing local appetite for algorithmic trading. Read this article to learn why Dr. Giles Nelson of Progress thinks it's possible that Brazil’s BM&F exchange could be the second biggest in the world by the end of 2011.

Catch Me If You Can: Stopping the Rogue Traders

Written by Dr. Giles Nelson and published by the TABBFORUM, this article talks in detail about rogue trading and the deliberate manipulation of investment pricing using electronic trading. It talks about the benefits and potential problems with high frequency trading, and touches on the importance of market surveillance in the capital markets industry.

Hands off High-Frequency Trading

In this article, Dr. John Bates asserts that high frequency trading is not the root of all evil, and he shares his thoughts on how regulators should address it. 

Opening the Right Door to Cross-Asset Trading

Whether it’s an issue of providing new services to institutional investors or deploying a costsaving maneuver in a down market, setting up electronic cross-asset trading capabilities is a difficult task for any broker-dealer. DWT assembled Steve Grob, director of strategy with Fidessa, John Bates, founder and general manager with Progress Apama, and Harry Gozlan, founder and CEO of Smart Trade Technologies, to discuss the common hurdles in deploying cross-asset trading platforms.

Programmatic Trading & Risk In Energy Commodities

This article, written by Mike Reilly and published by worldPower, examines the challenges and opportunities in applying Programmatic Trading and Risk Management (PTRM) techniques to the energy markets.

The End of "Clothing Optional" Trading

Written by Dan Hubscher and published by TABBFORUM, this article talks about the current outcries regarding "latency hops" and how complex event processing (CEP) offers a solution. With a real-time risk solution in place, a message can enter through an order management system, be run through the risk hurdles and checks, and leave for the exchange a few microseconds later - thereby preventing "fat finger" trading and fraud.

Build Quickly, Run Fast Intro, Part I & II

Though controversy about high frequency trading (HFT) dominates the news, there is no argument that algorithmic trading has become a key component of the trading arsenal of many firms. This three-part Webinar Series: “Build Quickly, Run Fast" shares how Progress can help create trading strategies that exploit your unique trading ideas to outrun the competition and quickly adjust to new market conditions.

CEP: Strategic or Tactical Weapon

Presenters discuss the role that complex event processing plays in managing risk and the IT landscape. This webinar features insights from noted capital markets industry analyst, Adam Honore from Aite Group and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets. You'll hear short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.

Riding the FX Liquidity Wave

If you work for an FX trader/sell side firm, there are three powerful reasons why you should watch this webinar about handling the increase in FX liquidity fragmentation:

• Learn an even better way to attract client flow
• See how to leverage the most advanced technology
• Discover how to increase market share and profits

Energy trading & real-time risk management – Two sides of the same coin?

In this recorded webinar you'll hear from industry practitioners as they explore how companies can address these challenges and stay ahead of their competitors.

FX Pricing and Hedging

Progress Apama invites you to a two-part webinar series where we will share our experience in the application of the Apama event-driven approach to deliver solutions for FX Pricing and Hedging.

Programmatic Trading for the Energy Markets

Download a recording of this virtual roundtable moderated by Stella Farrington, Editor, EnergyRisk magazine and joined by Dale Emmerson, Head of ETRM Practice, Deloitte Consulting, Steve Roberts, Director of Sales, ICE Futures Europe, Dr. Paul Fermor, Algorithmic Trader, Starmark Trading & Mike Reilly, Head of Commodities, Progress Apama

Real-time Risk – A Mandate for Trading in Volatile Markets

This webinar features insights from Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group, Dhiru Patel, Chief Quantitative Strategist, Thomas Weisel Partners and Dr. John Bates the founder and general manager of Progress Apama, the industry’s leading CEP platform for Capital Markets solutions. Listen to short and incisive presentations and a lively Q&A session at the end.

Surveillance and Monitoring

This recorded webinar outlines the key challenges facing the trading community when looking to implement a market monitoring and surveillance solution.

See Every Move Your Traders Make

You are on the front lines, and the gloves are off. The political backlash following the global financial crisis shows no signs of abating. If anything, it is becoming more radicalized—particularly for monitoring and market surveillance. Read this paper to find out what you can expect in the coming year. Learn more about the implications for compliance and risk managers, and impending changes to monitoring and surveillance requirements.

Achieving Foreign Exchange Transparency via Aggregation

Learn more about changes in the Foreign Exchange (FX) financial world and the role algorithms play. This paper presents ideas on market aggregation and how Progress Apama can help you customize automated applications that require an aggregated view. Market aggregation provides one-click trading across all liquidity, so traders are free to focus on high-value deals with only occasional manual intervention.

CEP for Energy Trading and Risk

This data sheet explains how Progress Software is pioneering the use of complex event processing (CEP) within traded energy markets. 

Managing Risk Across the Trading Lifecycle

Today’s markets demand a risk profile that is real time. What a firm cannot see—or see in a timely manner—is where the greatest risk lies.The good news is that for firms pursuing algorithmic or high-frequency trading, the technology to deliver real-time risk management is now available. Read this white paper to find out.

Managing the Energy Crisis

See why competitive trading strategies coupled with the right mix of risk mitigation is a winning strategy in the energy market.

Top 10 Tips for Effective EP

With complex event processing, businesses are able to monitor their business information, analyze it in real time and then act. But how do you get started with an event processing project? This paper provides tips on what to consider, what to do, and what not to do.

Using Technology to Prepare for Regulatory Change An important lesson learned from the 2010 Flash Crash: complacency is not an option. Citing past experience and looming financial markets regulations, industry experts discuss why capital markets firms must improve their market surveillance technologies to prevent and deter abusive behavior in real-time.

Preparing for Changes in the Regulatory Approach With so many regulatory changes like Dodd-Frank and MiFID II looming, how will traders be affected?  Watch industry experts discuss the new responsibilities facing capital markets participants, especially brokers, to proactively improve market surveillance, rather than relying on exchanges or regulations to force the issue.

Cutting Through Confusion on Financial Regulation The evolving regulatory landscape is leaving more questions than answers for financial markets in Europe and the U.S.  Watch industry experts including Dan Hubscher of Progress Software discuss how regulations like Dodd-Frank in the U.S, and the FSA’s ARROW visits and MiFID II in Europe perpetuate the confusion

PLUS Stock Exchange: Making Progress around Regulation Tony Harrop and James Godwin of PLUS-SX (a London-based stock exchange) explain why they rely on Progress® Apama® market surveillance technology to spot trading abuse, insider trading and ensure their member firms comply with trading regulations such as MiFID.

Progress Control Tower for Capital Markets See how the Progress Control Tower™ Trader gives analysts, traders, regulators, or IT specialists a comprehensive, real-time view of market conditions to analyze opportunities and threats, pinpoint the root-cause of problems and take action. Get a demo of how the Progress Market Surveillance Solution Accelerator monitors for irregular market operations and gives instant control to modify processes to fix problems.

Giles Nelson's Capital Market Predictions for 2010 Dr. Giles Nelson, Deputy CTO at Progress, talks about the trend towards increased transparency and the future of dark pools and high frequency trading. You will also learn what his key predictions for 2010 are.

Enhancements to the Progress Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution Accelerator Dr. Giles Nelson shares how the new features of the Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution Accelerator are meeting the demand for increased transparency to mitigate today's risks.

The State of Algorithmic Trading Dr. John Bates discusses the evolution of algorithmic trading towards high frequency trading. Learn about how to manage risk and prevent rogue traders, and discover the holy grail of market surveillance.

Algorithmic Trading To be an algorithmic trading leader, you need to be competitive on multiple frontiers. Dr. John Bates discusses key factors that are critical to algorithmic trading success.

FX Aggregation Dr. John Bates shares how you can achieve consolidated prices and debt across various sources in today’s world of fragmented FX liquidity and enjoy single screen click-to-trade.

Savvion Acquisition - Part I Dr. Bates, CTO of Progress Software shares the reasoning behind Progress Software’s entry into the business process management (BPM) marketplace through the acquisition of Savvion.

Market Surveillance Put your operations and compliance officers back in control. Dr. John Bate talks about how Progress Apama can help you detect market problems and irregularities in real-time.

Real-Time Risk Do you know the extent of exposure across your entire firm at any given moment? Dr. John Bates shares how you can increase trading volumes and manage risk in real-time.

Trading in the Cloud Dr. John Bates explains how smaller organizations can take advantage of hosted, connected, and integrated solutions to enjoy advanced trading capabilities. It’s all in the cloud!

Progress Apama Helps During Turbulent Times Dr. John Bates outlines how turbulent markets have created the need for trading firms to be able to change and adapt very quickly. He goes on to talk about the Progress Apama platform as a tool to help clients meet these demands and discusses the recent demand for greater visibility of real time risk, and Apama's potential use as a pre-trade risk tool and auto hedging system.

David Allen - AVM, LP outlines growth in commodities algo trading With the established algorithmic trading community increasingly looking to other asset classes for alpha opportunities, and now traditional commodity market participants embracing systematic and algorithmic trading, commodity markets have seen significant growth in non-human participation over recent months. David Allen, Manager Commodities Sales & Trading outlines the trends he sees in the commodity trading arena to Automated Trader's David Clayden at Progress Apama's "Trading in a Perfect Storm" seminar in New York.

Fighting White Collar Crime with Apama Fox News interview with John Bates on Fighting White Collar Crime with Apama.

Apama Connectivity for Capital Markets

A one page (ever-expanding) list of Apama's current packaged connectivity choices. Apama's Integrated Adapter Framework supports building new connections by the customer or by Apama. Includes our offering of general infrastructure adapters, as well as plug-ins that are available for both Capital Markets and other applications.

Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform

Learn more about the industry leading algorithmic trading platform for applying the power of complex event processing (CEP).

Market Surveillance and Monitoring Accelerator

Can existing surveillance and control systems deliver? Frequently not. This data sheet explains how you can leverage surveillance technology to quickly discover and respond to fraudulent activities.

Apama Capital Markets Foundation

This data sheets presents the four application components - Market Data, Analytics, Order Management and Infrastructure - of our Capital Markets Foundation.

FX Aggregation Accelerator

Get an aggregated view of liquidity across multiple sources. Read this data sheet and learn how you can easily view the depth of multiple markets and click to trade from
a single integrated front end.

Smart Order Router Accelerator

Get an overview of the Smart Order Router (SOR) Accelerator and learn how you can jumpstart the implementation of algorithmically-driven applications that will route equities orders to trading venues in support of best execution requirements.

Apama Spreader hosted by FFastFill

This data sheet explains how the Progress® Apama® Spreader hosted by FFastFill enables firms to quickly and easily automate their spread trading systems by leveraging existing infrastructure and algorithmic techniques.

How Sell-side Firms Make Progress

Enhance your sell-side offerings. The data sheet details how you can leverage our algorithmic trading platform to dramatically reduce the time it takes to deploy new algorithmic trading strategies.

How Buy-side Firms Make Progress

Deliver smarter trading algorithms to the buy-side. This data sheet explains how our capital markets platform will help you implement strategies unique to your business without expensive IT resources.

Making Progress in Capital Markets

Capital Markets firms need the highest levels of business performance. We characterize this performance as operational responsiveness and it allows firms to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk.Read this brochure to learn more.

Progress Apama Capital Markets in Brazil Presented By Dan Hubscher In recent years, the Brazilian market has grown stronger, and become very aggressive with algorithmic trading. Just back from a conference in Brazil, Dan shares insight into the current state of Brazil’s market, and what the people down there are buzzing about.

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Progress Apama High Frequency Trading Presented By John Bates Dr. John Bates discusses high frequency trading and its relationship to algo trading.

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