Source: Wombat Financial Software
Wombat Financial Software, the high-speed trading infrastructure experts, today announced that Tony McManus, a former UBS Technical Architect, has been appointed the newly created role of Director of Algorithmic Trading Solutions.
Reporting to Danny Moore, Wombat's COO, Tony has overall responsibility for the development and delivery of Wombat's Algorithmic Trading product suite.
Tony's career spans over ten years within in the financial services industry. Most recently he served in a technical leadership role within the Equities division at UBS, culminating in his role as Technical Architect within the Cash Equities Division. He was responsible for the design, implementation and delivery of highly available, scaleable, real-time enterprise level systems supporting high numbers of users across a wide variety of technical platforms. Prior to that role, McManus had served in numerous leadership positions spanning businesses such as stock lending, cross product position management, cash equities order management, pre and post trade analytics and client facilitation risk trading.
"Attracting someone with Tony's industry experience reflects our strategy of leveraging in-depth customer knowledge and validates our belief that we can completely transform what's happening in the trading technology market," said Moore. "Leaders in electronic trading firms can clearly see opportunity for profit from events like MiFID and RegNMS, and are consequently looking for an integrated trading technology stack that spans market data, real time event processing and historical data. Under Tony's leadership, with our technology assets, we feel particularly well poised to offer the market the most productive development platform in the market."
"When I decided to move to the other side of the client/vendor relationship, Wombat emerged as the only company that offered the dynamism, creativity and market data software expertise to make that an easy decision", said McManus. "Wombat has developed a suite of products that is unique in its combination of high performance and connectivity to all significant trading venues, making it the ideal platform upon which to build the next generation algorithmic trading plaatform. The opportunity was simply too good to miss."