Fixnetix said it had developed a microchip that achieves "wire-to-wire" execution of trading instructions in less than one microsecond.

Executing a trade isn’t easy. Broker-dealers have to figure out where to trade, when to trade and how much to trade in a way that will minimize their total costs.

The trading capital of Connecticut is now all up in arms, it seems, because UBS is talking about moving out.

Tradeweb said it added high-yield bonds to its European credit trading platform. The addition of high-yield bonds was intended to help asset managers "to enhance portfolio returns,'' in a period of low interest rates.

As I write this, I’m attending Securities America’s annual conference. My team from Impact is here talking with advisors about how they can add multi-media to their websites, create custom magazines for their clients, learn how to work with the media, and add social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to their marketing plan.

Hedge fund advisers who have registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission by July 21 have a lot more to worry about than simply filling out Form ADV.

SS&C Technologies said it launched a self-service portal for fund services, online.

Visa Inc. said its acquisition of the South African mobile payments company Fundamo will help it serve more underbanked consumers abroad. The San Francisco payments network said it would pay about $110 million for the Cape Town company.

Customer relationship management software can be an advisor's best friend, but experts say most users still aren't getting everything they can out of it to grow their business.

A software tools company and a maker of high-performance servers said they set a new record in the speed of pricing options contracts.

With stock trading, there seems to be an app, of course, for just about anything. Here are some of the best ones out there today.

Rule changes brought on by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are expected to produce the most change in the way trading in contracts involving interest-rate commitments.

The Investment Company Institute has asked the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration to make electronic delivery the default method of communicating with 401(k) plan participants, unless a shareholder expressly asks to receive paper delivery.

Forget ATM machines. Financial institutions that want to stay competitive are going to have to work the phones if they want to hang on to their customers in the future. That is to say, they’ll have to make their services accessible by smartphone.

State Street Corp. this week said it will roll out a new mobile application for executive-level portfolio and fund managers' iPads in the fall, giving clients real-time access to portfolio and risk exposure data on their beloved mobile devices.

BNY Mellon said that it had begun expanding its middle office outsourcing service for hedge funds to North America and Asia.

A former employee pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to helping Bernie Madoff create false records for investors.

State Street Bank this week announced plans to offer a cloud computing service geared to investors and investment professionals.

Patsystems said it added London to its network of trading and risk management hubs for futures.

Cinnober Financial Technology introduced a trading system that it said performs "door to door" matching of orders in under 10 millionths of a second.