Capital Markets Resources
 
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How Standard and Poor's Makes Progress with RBISee how Standard & Poor's, the leader in financial market intelligence, overcame siloed data and technology to achieve faster product delivery with Progress Responsive Business Integration. Mark DuBrock of S&P shares how Sonic provides reliable enterprise messaging, and the end-to-end visibility and proactive alerting from Actional gives S&P optimal application performance management and business transaction assurance. |
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How India will Benefit from Increased Algorithmic TradingDr. Giles Nelson of Progress Software talks to Bloomberg about India's emerging economy. With growing trade volume, Nelson explains how India can benefit from embracing algorithmic trading. |
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Progress Control Tower for Capital MarketsSee 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. |
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Cutting Through Confusion on Financial RegulationThe 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 |
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Preparing for Changes in the Regulatory ApproachWith 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. |
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Dr. John Bates Talks to ReutersIs stopping anonymous trades and charging for high frequency trading enough to prevent a future 'flash crash'? Dr. John Bates gives his opinion to Reuters. |
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Using Technology to Prepare for Regulatory ChangeAn 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. |
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PLUS Stock Exchange: Making Progress around RegulationTony 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. |
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FX AggregationDr. 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. |
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Market SurveillancePut 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.
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Real-Time RiskDo 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. |
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Real-time Insight Saves LivesApama and RFID technology gives medical personnel the real-time core body temperatures and positions of participants in an arduous four day walk in the Netherlands. |
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The State of Algorithmic TradingDr. 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. |
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Trading in the CloudDr. 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! |
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.
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.
Increase Client Order Flow with FX eCommerce
Listen to a lively panel discussion on how sell-side firms can build feature-rich FX eCommerce platforms to competitively engage with clients. The panel talks about how you can quickly deploy customized FX eCommerce components for real-time pricing, flexible auto hedging and internal order crossing.
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.
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
Surveillance and Monitoring
This recorded webinar outlines the key challenges facing the trading community when looking to implement a market monitoring and surveillance solution.
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
FX Aggregation—Defusing eCommerce Aggravation
According to Dow Jones Newswires, half of the biggest 10 banks in foreign exchange are overhauling their trading technology in a bid to stay at the top of the business. Learn how an event-driven platform can help you accelerate deployment and reduce time-to-value.
The Fast and the Furious
High-frequency trading (HFT) seems scary, but what does the evidence show? In this article reprinted from The Economist, Dr. John Bates of Progress and other capital markets experts discuss the impacts and risks of HFT.
If 6 Was 9...
There is still a lot of over-the-counter (OTC) trading taking place, particularly in derivatives. This Progress Perspective takes a look at the impact that potential new regulations will have on OTC trading and how firms can achieve the necessary transparency and decrease risk.
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.
RPM in Financial Services
Gain real-time visibility into your payments operations so that you can identify payment exceptions or abnormal loan approval queue length/times. Get insight as to how you can get a real-time view into your clearing and settlement operations to detect prospective trade failures before they cost you client satisfaction and profits. Read this paper and learn about other ways RPM can help those in financial services achieve operational responsiveness.
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.
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Market Surveillance in Europe: Under Starter's OrdersThis TABB Group Vision Note, offered only by Progress, examines how new regulations are triggering the next generation of market surveillance technology, and the challenges and opportunities in this new world. |
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Swaps Liquidity Aggregation: Best Execution to Production SelectionLearn why fragmentation will occur, how it will impact the swaps market, and the potential ways in which swaps execution facility (SEF) aggregation technology will be used to alleviate the pain of fragmentation in this TABB Group Vision Note offered exclusively by Progress. |
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Dynamic Surveillance: Detection, Prevention, and DeterrenceGet your hands on this new Tabb Group Vision Note, offered exclusively by Progress Software. Learn how regulatory changes across the marketplace are transforming market surveillance requirements and presenting new challenges for brokers. Get tips for meeting the challenges of this brave new surveillance world. |
The Impact of Regulation, Monitoring and Algorithms on the OTC Derivatives MarketThis Vanson Bourne study examines how heads of compliance, risk and reconciliation feel about impending regulation, existing processes, monitoring transactions and algorithmic trading engagements in the wake of the global economic crisis. |
Progress Apama Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution
Track every trade, identify problems and respond - before the damage is done. Learn how the Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution combines real-time and historical data analysis to detect abusive and manipulative practices as well as anomalous market conditions across asset classes and markets in real-time.
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.
Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform
Learn more about the industry leading algorithmic trading platform for applying the power of complex event processing (CEP).
Apama Capital Markets Foundation
This data sheets presents the four application components - Market Data, Analytics, Order Management and Infrastructure - of our Capital Markets Foundation.
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.
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 Offers Algorithmic Execution with CQG
CQG, provider of the industry’s leading trade routing, graphics, and technical analysis tools for real-time and historical analysis, and Progress® Apama®, the market-leading platform for algorithmic trading, have partnered to deliver sophisticated order execution algorithms to CQG users.
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.
Profit-Loss, a leading FX publication, named 
