“We are very excited about introducing the Gateway Development Kit as it provides our customers with the flexibility and freedom to integrate their Orc Trading products with pretty much any type of venue or market data source”, says Jesper Alfredsson, VP Product Management at Orc. “During the development we have worked closely with a number of our customers globally and this no doubt has allowed them to execute their trading strategies in a more efficient way.”

“This is a material step towards a more open Orc technology platform, enabled by our new market gateway normalization design and a great effort by our engineering team.” says Joakim Dahlstedt, CTO, Orc Group.

ULLINK, provider of connectivity and trading solutions for the global financial community, has today released the latest and fastest version of an already proven connectivity trading platform. With innovative performance tuning, this release reinforces ULLINK’s reputation as a constant innovator in the connectivity space.

UL BRIDGE 4 doubled the latency reduction from its predecessor while increasing message throughput and approaching hardware based technologies performances. All business processes available on UL BRIDGE will take advantage of these enhancements, including but not limited to the library of 70 market gateways, the library of 500 adaptors to the trading systems of the world, the pre trade risk applications (UL IRIS), the smart order router (UL SMART) and the algorithms (UL EDMA).

“Our clients are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves and gain a competitive advantage, and therefore finding new ways to optimize our platform processes is key to providing the most efficient, trading system in terms of latency, throughput and scalability for them,” said Laurent Useldinger, CEO of Ullink. “All our managed software and managed services clients are natively going to be migrated to this new technology in the months to come.”

TradingScreen’s TradePlus clients will benefit from an exchange co-located in a local datacenter and an office in Brazil, which ensures low-latency and the industry leading follow-the-sun support that TradingScreen is known for. TradePlus has seamless integration into the world’s leading execution management system (EMS) for the buy side, TradingScreen’s TradeSmart, ensuring a new level of communication between brokers and their clients.

“Sell-side firms looking to buy an OMS face significant challenges when trying to find a system that will integrate with their buy-side customers,” said TradingScreen CEO Philippe Buhannic. “TradingScreen’s TradePlus provides a significant advantage, because there is integration between both sides right out of the box.”

TradePlus covers the entire workflow from liquidity management, order management, book passing, warehousing, sophisticated trading tools, an algo development environment, allocation management and supports a full integration to local back office and middle office systems while leveraging the TradeNet network distribution capability.

“TradePlus offers an innovative set of hosted exchange links and risk and compliance features that insure a new level of control in a high-volume trading environment. TradePlus also provides a highly sophisticated and efficient method for trading the Brazilian equity and listed derivatives markets, while allowing brokers to give their clients the best EMS in the market,” said Jose Barrera, Director of TradingScreen’s Sao Paulo office. “TradingScreen has the largest number of deployed EMS screens globally, and a deep understanding of the market in Brazil. With this foundation beneath it, TradePlus is the right product at the right place and the right time.”

TradePlus, TradeSmart and the complete range of TradingScreen’s trading tools will be on display at the upcoming Terrapinn’s Brasil Investment Summit taking place April 24-27, 2012, in Sao Paolo. To see TradePlus at the Summit, or at any other event, register here.

Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, today announced that it has integrated the Orc Trading products with Cscreen, NYSE Liffe’s global pre-trade price discovery platform, providing traders with a more efficient way of interfacing Indications of Interests (IOIs) for equity and index derivatives from inter-dealer brokers (IDBs).

The Cscreen integration provides Orc users with an efficient way to bring together their activities in the OTC equity derivatives markets alongside their on-screen trading. Leveraging Orc’s rich functionality in strategy trading, the Cscreen solution enables traders to quickly price and assess any incoming IOIs for swift trading decisions. Traders can now benefit from an aggregated, comprehensive view of total trading risk in both listed and OTC markets.

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Judging from the lines of Delegates registering at the CEFIC and SEIS desks, 2012 will be a significant year for  those that took the trouble to register – and above all for those that took space.

As usual,  Microsoft, Dominion,  and Atos were in force – Oscar Martin Healthcare chief at Dominion told us that he expects the private sector to grow the most this year – but pride of place hs to go to CSC Isoft – who had several people available to talk to us, were busy right from the start discussing new projects; the Gran Canaria Region,  where their new Tecnicas division was available for discussion – and above all, the  Talkoo “cloud” services from Cystelcom health.  Cloud services data storage will be a key way for Hospitals and Regional Government to save  money on hardware costs maintenance, and we will be addressing this topic later with Talkoo on these pages.  Spain and Madrid will not be the first  area to consider the benefits of cloud technologies;  already, Slovenia is looking at this and our own sister organisation,  CRTP,  offers cloud certification to those regions that need certified approval.

Inmaculada Parras of Talkoo said “Our focus is in the international market, but we are starting our journey in Spain at a time which is necessary to incorporate services at lower cost. ”

With nothing new in terms of exciting technology – the best Offer came surprisingly form a UK company with a cool technology for personalising your phone.

“WhosOnYourCase”  (www.whosonyourcase.com) – has a unique polymer based technology for personalising a standard mobile phone with the image of your choice – and thereby opening the door to a completely new level of image conscious branding that will generate enormous levels of incremental revenue for the retail market.

The company solution is entirely web-based, which gives it portability and accessibility.  In short, a low cost of entry for Telco retailers looking for a unique edge.

Moving On…. Our Prize for the most fun has to go to CBOSS group.  Unashamedly Russian, the Stand featured great looking young Russian ladies dancing to great music.  They are a serious competitor now in the Telco solutions/billings and consulting areas – but who cares? They had by far the biggest draw of people around their Stand.

Disappointing “National Areas”  of groups of vendors, make us again wonder – why do these companies do it? They should follow the example of WeDoTechnologies,  who (whilst being Portuguese), remain resolutely mainstream, have their Stand positioned where everyone can see them;  and have a separate and remote Meetings Area.

Mobile BCN remains what it is;  a meeting point,  with some unique nuggets of gold if you can find them – but for 2012,  don’t hold your breath.

“The potential of embedded mobile will only be realised if operators fully understand the needs of specific industries,” Vodafone’s head of global business development for M2M, Marc Sauter, told Mobile Business Briefing, adding that industries such as the automotive and utilities sectors have different sets of challenges related to M2M technology.

UK utilities companies, for example, have the government mandate to move to M2M-enabled smart meters by 2019 to cope with. The automotive sector, meanwhile, is likely to have to deal with European legislation for all cars to be equipped with technology that automatically contacts emergency services in the case of a serious accident by 2015.

Both Ford and BMW have called for greater operator involvement in the connected cars space. Vodafone Germany recently signed a deal with BMW to install adapted mobile SIMs into the car maker’s ‘ConnectedDrive’ vehicles.

Another big challenge in the M2M space, according to Sauter, is the complexity and fragmentation that can be created when the technology isn’t delivered as a standardised managed service through a trusted supplier.

“As with all new technologies, both suppliers and customers benefit from greater standardisation which can help to lower the entry cost as well as offer enhanced capabilities. The industry needs to focus on reducing multiple standards and protocols which impact interoperability and inhibit market growth,” he said.

“Ultimately, the mobile industry needs to work together to address issues of fragmentation in order to deliver more value and higher service levels to corporate customers,” Sauter added.

Operators also need to make it easier for companies to deploy this technology. “Vodafone is tackling this by building an extensive knowledge of industry needs alongside an established network of global partnerships to support service and product development,” Sauter explained.

The operator group has created a dedicated Global M2M Platform to make it as simple as possible for customers to rollout and manage M2M technology, by providing a centrally managed way of deploying smart services through connected devices. The operator group also offers a range of M2M starter kits to help customers with device integration projects by reducing the complexity of installing and deploying M2M technology.

Another area Vodafone has focused on in is partnerships, with the likes of Bosch, Accenture and Intel being enlisted to provide connectivity, hardware and application services to make the deployment of M2M services as cost-effective as possible.

Operator support is also essential for device manufacturers, who have considerable M2M expertise, if they are to fully move into the M2M space and drive deployment of the technology globally, Sauter added.

Full details are here below, or if you would like an earlier discussion and sharing of views, please email VP, Robert Gordon, at; robert.gordon@infor.com.