Capital Markets Resources
Trading & Risk in Energy Commodities
This article examines the challenges and opportunities in applying Programmatic Trading and Risk Management (PTRM) techniques to the energy markets.
Laying the Cornerstone for 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.
FX Aggregation and Beyond: Exploiting the Power of CEP
Register to listen to our previously recorded webinar in which experts from Progress Apama discuss real world use cases that illustrate how CEP-based trading platforms are moving beyond FX Aggregation. In the discussion and demonstration, they show how the Apama platform meets the need to aggregate FX data, but also how easily it adapts to a range of new FX trading demands that are likely to emerge in the future.
Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Algorithms
Discover new tools for building customized trading algorithms,and find out how leading-edge institutions are exploiting high frequency techniques. Dr. John Bates talks about how Apama's integration capabilities can incorporate a variety of data - not just tick data – to enrich your algorithmic strategies.
The Emerging Opportunity for Algorithms in FX Trading and Hedging
Dr. John Bates, VP Apama Products and Chris Martins, Apama Product Marketing Director, discuss how algorithmic strategies can exploit new opportunities in FX and cross asset trading to provide a competitive advantage.
Monitoring Rogue TradingPresented By John Bates John discusses the impact of rogue trading and the role that technology can play in helping to detect it. |
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Risk Management & Market SurveillancePresented By John Bates John discusses additional examples of the use of CEP in Capital Markets. |
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOAPresented By Giles Nelson What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements. |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 1Presented By John Bates John Bates discusses how traders are using smart order routing to cope with the changing marketplace. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 2Presented By John Bates John Bates discusses the importance of low latency execution in effective SOR solutions. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 3Presented By John Bates John Bates discusses how the ability to customize can be key to creating competitive SOR capabilities. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Smart Order Routing - Part 4Presented By John Bates John discusses the differences between SOR offerings and what the buy-side really needs from this technology. (provided courtesy of The Tradenews.com) |
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Intelligent Monitoring - Complex Event Processing in Transportation & Logistics Part 1Presented By David Olson The first in the series of Complex Event Processing (CEP) in transport and logistics podcasts looks at the challenges that are facing the industry today, explains the concept of CEP and highlights how CEP can be used in real-time intelligent decision making to save money and meet SLAs. |
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Intelligent Monitoring - Complex Event Processing in Transportation & Logistics Part IIPresented By David Olson This podcast, part II in the transport & logistics series, looks at how CEP is in use today and how the availability of current information can transform the decision making process to manage costs and gain competitive advantage. |
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Proactive Customer Assurance with Complex Event ProcessingPresented By Giles Nelson The complexity of any telco’s service provision and billing systems means that often there’s no overall and up-to-date business view of how well customers are being delivered the services they need. By using Event Processing technology, information from multiple different systems can be brought together in one place and presented in a real-time, business-relevant context. Using this can ensure that service level agreements are met, that revenue is not lost and that organisations can be more proactively address customer needs. |
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Early Adoption of Complex Event ProcessingPresented By John Bates John talks about the applications that showcase the early adoption of CEP in Capital Markets. |
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Event-driven SOA vs CEP. What is the Difference?Presented By Giles Nelson Hear examples of event-driven styles of business and what industries would truly benefit from an event-driven SOA infrastructure. |
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TradeTech '08 RecapPresented By Giles Nelson Giles Nelson, Senior Director of Strategy and Evangelism, shares his thoughts about this year's TradeTech, Paris. |
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eWeek InterviewPresented By John Bates In this eWeek interview, Dr. John Bates introduces CEP and its role within organizations, focusing on how and where CEP and BAM can fit within a broader IT architecture |
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Apama: Backtesting and Analysis of Trading Strategies
Advanced testing of new trading strategies and analysis of existing ones can be critical to achieving the necessary confidence to deploy innovative new algorithms into the market. As the sophistication of algorithmic trading increases, so must that of the tools that both evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and judge their associated risk. With Progress® Apama® Research Studio and Progress® Apama® EventStore™, traders have tools with which to test new strategies and audit the performance of existing ones.
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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.
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Apama FX Aggregation Accelerator
The Progress® Apama ® FX Aggregation Accelerator speeds the implementation of algorithmically driven FX applications that depend on an aggregated view of liquidity across multiple sources. The fragmented nature of FX liquidity has proven a significant barrier to the adoption of algorithmic approaches.
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Apama Smart Order Router Accelerator
An overview of the Apama Smart Order Router (SOR) Accelerator. The Apama SOR Accelerator is designed to jumpstart the implementation of algorithmically-driven applications that will route equities orders to trading venues in support of best execution requirements.
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Apama Trading Platform Collocated with BGC's eSpeed
The Apama algorithms, collocated with the eSpeed Fixed Income trading platform offered by BGC Partners, Inc., exploit the power of the underlying Apama complex event processing (CEP) platform and its sophisticated development environment.
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Fighting White Collar Crime with ApamaFox News interview with John Bates on Fighting White Collar Crime with Apama. |
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Helping Today's Turbulent Capital MarketsJohn Bates, Managing Director, Progress Apama, discusses the role of Apama in capital markets with the South China Morning Post. |





