Caplin Cable Autumn/Fall 2009

News, views and opinions on real-time data and single-dealer platforms in the capital markets

Caplin launches Xaqua; Nomura live with new single-dealer platform

On October 19th Caplin Systems announced its new Single-Dealer Platform (SDP) product, Caplin Xaqua. This product is designed specifically for deployment in the capital markets and enables a bank to build its own SDP quickly and cost-effectively. This minimises the time to market and the risk. It's also future-proof because it doesn't limit the bank's choice of trading systems, products or front-end technologies. Several banks are already live with SDPs running on Caplin Xaqua, including Nomura. Read More

Predictive Customer Management in Investment Bank Trading Systems

 

Caplin and Tibco consider the possibilities of integrating complex event processing (CEP) into an investment bank's single-dealer portal, and come up with some interesting ideas. Read More

 

Browser Wars: the State of the Battle

Many firms haven't upgraded their standard web browsers for some years. There are clearly security issues with this strategy, but with the rise of rich internet applications (RIAs) these older browsers cannot deliver the performance needed for a compelling user experience. This hot topic has been discussed on several blogs in some detail. We review the discussions so far. Read More

The Evolution of Single-Dealer Platform Technology

Caplin led the introduction of streaming web servers back in the late nineties and early noughties; this infrastructure technology is now widely used. Other techniques for both pushing real-time data to a browser and getting it back have been developed and once again Caplin is leading product development in this area for financial services' applications.  Read More