Townsend Analytics
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| Townsend Analytics | |
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| Founded | 1985 |
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| Headquarters | Chicago, IL USA |
| Key People | Jeff Wecker, CEO; Stuart Townsend, Founder and President |
| Products | Multi-asset class, broker-neutral platform, data, and other services |
| Web site | http://www.townsendanalytics.com/ |
Townsend Analytics is involved in technology-driven solutions for the global capital markets comprising four core areas: trading services, data, exchange services and portfolio and risk services. Townsend's business is primarily aimed at the institutional trading community.
In late 2005, Lehman Brothers acquired Townsend Analytics to beef up its electronic trading offerings.[1] Townsend is a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary of the Wall Street giant.
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History
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Townsend Analytics, which has been in the technology business for more than 20 years, claims a number of firsts:
- First real-time financial software under Microsoft Windows
- First to provide real-time streaming data over the Internet
- First integrated solution for NASDAQ trading rooms
- First Windows-based direct-access trading solution
- Created the groundbreaking technologies behind Archipelago ECN and its successor ArcaEx: the first all-electronic, fully open exchange in North America
Products and Services
Trading Services
Services include, but are not limited to:[2]
- Townsend Analytics’ flagship institutional product is RealTick EMS (Execution Management System). It is a multi-asset (global equities, futures, options, ETFs, bonds, FX, and synthetic equities), multi-broker, multi-routing and multi-regional market data, analytics and direct-market-access (DMA) trading platform.
- Broker-dealer connectivity to multiple asset classes
- Portfolio/trade order management tools
- Real-time and customizable trading and order-entry tools for algorithmic trading
- FIX flow - trade capture & order routing
- Mid- and back-office reporting tools
- Regulatory reporting tools
- Training & documentation
Content & Data Services
- Townsend Analytics Market Data
- RealTick Data Display Solutions
- News
- Enterprise Wide Data-feeds solutions
- Analytics
- Research (Independent – 3rd Party- Sell Side)
- Data API Interface
Content & Data Services - Front Office
- Broker/manager desktop
- RealTick Market Data Terminal(s) - quotes, charting, research, news, trading/order entry applications, and pre-trade/post-trade analytics
Content & Data Services – Middle & Back Office
- RealTick Market Data Terminal- Account information, trade data.
- Reference Data
- Order Management Tools - View net positions and daily blotters.
- Enterprise Wide Data Feeds
- Broker/dealer extranet - web based trade and order management tool for the broker dealer.
Key People
References
- ↑ "Lehman Brothers Acquires Townsend Analytics,” Dec. 22, 2005. FinanceTech.com. Retrieved on Feb. 27, 2008.
- ↑ Trading Services. Townsend Analytics. Retrieved on Feb. 27, 2008.
