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Pico Pushes on to Fulfil Global Expansion Plan
Pico, a provider of infrastructure, connectivity, cloud technology, data and analytics services, has a global expansion plan and is pushing on to fulfil it with an additional 20 colocation facilities due to be up and running across Asia this year, expansion of its PicoNet proprietary network, hybrid connectivity options including radio transmission, and ongoing developments...
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Cost of Trading Infrastructure Goes Down as Demand for Lower Latency Goes Up
The cost of technology to optimise trading infrastructure is going down, but that doesn’t mean demand for increasingly low-latency solutions is going down too. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit in New York City discussed the issues of optimisation for high performance under the auspices of moderator Greg Piesco, associate partner at Citihub...
Digital Reasoning Releases AI-Enabled Voice Analytics and Partnership with Corlytics
After four years of research and development, Nashville-based Digital Reasoning has released an AI-enabled voice analytics solution for financial services communications monitoring. It has also announced a partnership with regulatory risk tech company, Corlytics, to deliver one of the highest volumes of pre-trained models for monitoring available to the financial sector, according to the companies....
Pico Pushes on to Fulfil Global Expansion Plan
Pico, a provider of infrastructure, connectivity, cloud technology, data and analytics services, has a global expansion plan and is pushing on to fulfil it with an additional 20 colocation facilities due to be up and running across Asia this year, expansion of its PicoNet proprietary network, hybrid connectivity options including radio transmission, and ongoing developments...
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Seed CX Selects Corvil to Support Service Performance
Digital asset exchange Seed CX has selected Corvil to deliver trusted and timely intelligence to assure the performance of its platform. Built for institutional investors, Seed CX’s execution and settlement ecosystem seeks to establish a new standard for reliability and performance. Corvil provides visibility across the company’s client access options and proprietary binary protocol. This…
MIK and Itiviti Partner to Deliver OMS Connectivity
MIK Fund Solutions has partnered Itiviti to integrate its OMS with Itiviti’s NYFIX order routing network and give clients access to the NYFIX service delivery platform. MIK is one of 50 buy-side service providers to select NYFIX as their main connectivity partner. Marshall Saffer, chief operations officer at MIK, comments: “When we decided to launch…
Predata Adds Predictive Analytics for US Equities
Predata, a provider of predictive analytics for geopolitical risk, has released a suite of signals for US equities. The signals quantify online attention to each of the 11 S&P equity sectors, as well as constituent companies and macro themes within sectors. Predata provides signals for asset classes including FX and commodities, but this is its…
BattleFin Partners Refinitiv
BattleFin, provider of an alternative data marketplace, has partnered Refinitiv to bring fundamental and reference data to its Ensemble platform. Alternative datasets within Ensemble’s platform will be mapped to Refinitiv’s identifiers, including PermID, to provide a holistic data workflow, helping investors, analysts and data scientists find alpha and new investment strategies. Refinitiv’s desktop research platform…
ASX Adds Liquid-Based Cooling Pods at Australian Liquidity Centre
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is opening its first high-density pod at its colocation data centre, the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC). The pod is designed to meet customer demand for high-density power combined with efficient cooling and can deliver up to 24 kilowatts of power into an individual cabinet. The pod provides customers the same…
JSE Goes Live with Derivatives on Millennium Platform
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has gone live with equity and FX derivatives on Millennium Exchange and Millennium Surveillance. The migration of equity and FX derivatives trading onto Millennium Exchange is expected to enable clients to reduce trading costs and bring customer technology infrastructure onto the same platform as cash equities. LSEG Technology has worked with…
FINOS Adds Four Companies
Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), an independent membership organisation whose purpose is to accelerate collaboration and innovation in financial services through the adoption of open source software, standards and best practice, is adding four members. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) will join as a platinum member; Wipro, a consulting and business process services company,…
Algomi Extends ALFA with Ability to Execute Orders on Liquidnet and Trumid
Algomi, a provider of data aggregation technology for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, has extended the functionality of Algomi ALFA with the ability to execute orders on Liquidnet and Trumid. This goes beyond aggregating market data and liquidity, to allow traders to navigate markets and execute trades without duplicating steps across platforms. For actionable…
Timefolio Asset Management Selects SS&C’s Solutions to Power Operations
Timefolio Asset Management Singapore, a subsidiary of Korea’s Timefolio Asset Management, has selected a combination of SS&C Technologies services to power its operations. The company was looking for a trusted provider that could support investment operations as they grows. Working with SS&C Eze and SS&C GlobeOp also minimises the number of vendors the company works…
Refinitiv Adds Shanghai-London Connect App to Eikon Platform
Building on its commitment to provide data on China’s financial markets and as trading via the Shanghai-London Stock Connect commences this week, Refinitiv has added a Shanghai-London Connect app to its Eikon platform. The app brings together information market participants need to engage with trading and investment opportunities created by the new trading link, including…
Eventus Partners QuantHouse to Source Market Data
Eventus Systems has partnered QuantHouse, a global provider of systematic trading solutions including market data services that was recently acquired by IRESS, to use QuantFEED market data to support its Validus trade surveillance platform. The platform can be implemented on-premise or as a cloud solution based on Amazon AWS. Either implementation can be run in…
Liquidnet Acquires Prattle on Heels of RSRCHXchange purchase
Liquidnet, a global institutional investment network, continues expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) investment analytics platform with the acquisition of Prattle, a provider of automated investment research solutions for portfolio managers and research analysts. The agreement builds on Liquidnet’s acquisition of RSRCHXchange, an aggregator of institutional research. In 2017, the company acquired OTAS Technologies. With…
London Stock Exchange Acquires Beyond Ratings
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has acquired Beyond Ratings, a provider of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data for fixed income, as part of continued investment in its Information Services business, which includes FTSE Russell. The acquisition offers an opportunity for LSEG to build out its multi-asset data and analytics capabilities by commercialising Beyond Ratings’…
Barclays’ Equities Asset Class Prepares for BARX One
Barclays is planning the release of BARX One, a next-generation cross-asset trading platform that unifies for the first time its algorithmic trading and execution services offerings in fixed income, foreign exchange, listed derivatives and now equities. The BARX One initiative aims to optimise execution performance by accessing pools of liquidity through Barclays’ various trading technology…
SS&C upgrades Advent solutions
SS&C Technologies has released version 19.1 of its Advent portfolio management solutions. The Advent products, acquired in 2015, include Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), a portfolio accounting and reporting solution that includes a new API for portfolios and token-based authentication capabilities. APX regulatory reporting is also improved. Advent Genesis, a cloud-based rebalancing, portfolio construction and trade…
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Glue42 Appoints Sean Stephens as Chief Revenue Officer
Smart desktop integrator Glue42 has named Sean Stephens chief revenue officer with a remit to expand global sales efforts and help customers realise measurable value. Stephens reports to chief operating officer James Wooster. Glue42 CEO Les Spiro, says: “Our headcount is now in excess of 100 employees, the majority of whom are focused on engineering…
ULTUMUS Hires Femi Orangun
ULTUMUS, a provider of data creation, management and distribution services for index and ETF products, has hired industry veteran Femi Orangun. Orangun joins the company from DeltaOne Solutions, part of IHS Markit, and takes on the role of solutions architect with a remit to assist development of the ULTUMUS data platform and production of advanced…
Axyon AI Names Frank Abbenhuis Chief Commercial Officer
Axyon AI, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) for capital markets, has named Frank Abbenhuis as chief commercial officer with responsibility to oversee the company’s expansion from Modena, Italy, to London and drive client development. Axyon AI products can solve problems such as anticipating the market impact of economic events to suggesting future syndicated loans…
FlexTrade Hires to Build Sell-Side OMS Strength in EMEA
FlexTrade, a provider of cross-asset execution and order management systems (EOMS), has appointed Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani as co-heads of sell-side OMS business development for the EMEA region. Both Loi and Shirani come to FlexTrade with more than 25 years of combined experience in equities and derivatives trading technology. Since 1997, Loi has worked…
Dash Names Venu Palaparthi Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Regulatory Affairs
Dash Financial Technologies, a capital markets technology and execution provider, has named Venu Palaparthi as chief compliance officer and head of regulatory affairs. Palaparthi will be directing Dash’s compliance strategy with regards to internal regulatory policies and compliance with government regulations. Peter Maragos, co-founder and CEO of Dash Technologies, says Palaparthi’s experience will be key,…
Cinnober Chairman Nils-Robert Persson Steps Down
Nils-Robert Persson, chairman of Cinnober, has stepped down from his position at the company after 20 years. Persson’s departure from Cinnober this month follows that of deputy CEO, Per-Anders Häll Bedman, who left the company in December 2018, shortly before its acquisition by Nasdaq. Since the acquisition, OCC has selected to replace its legacy clearing…
Brian Conroy Appointed Liquidnet President
Liquidnet, a technology-driven, global institutional investment network, has appointed Brian Conroy as president. In this role, Conroy will work alongside Liquidnet CEO and founder, Seth Merrin. Conroy brings over three decades of experience in the financial services industry to Liquidnet, joining the company from Fidelity International in London, where he served as president. He will…
Artur Fischer Steps Down from Role of CEO at Equiduct
Artur Fischer, CEO of Börse Berlin and responsible for founding Equiduct, is stepping down from his position as the joint CEO of Equiduct. David Murphy, who has served as chief operating officer and head of operations and business development at Equiduct, is set to succeed Fischer. Equiduct is a pan-European trading venue operated by Börse…
Horizon Names Philippe Thomas as an Advisory Board Member
Horizon Software has named Philippe Thomas as a member of its advisory board. Thomas has previously held executive positions at Ullink and SunGard, and joins Horizon from his role as a consultant and investor at New World Wind, a provider of sustainable electrical services. The appointment is part of the company’s expansion strategy following an…
QuantHouse Appoints CTO and COO to Drive Growth and Innovation
QuantHouse has appointed its co-founder Denery Fenouil as chief technology officer (CTO) and Emmanuel Carjat, co-founder of Atrium Network, as chief operating officer (COO) to facilitate the company’s global growth. Rejoining the firm to oversee software and technology development, Fenouil was previously the architect of QuantHouse’s low latency market data solution. As COO, Carjat will…
FSB Names US Federal Reserve’s Randal K Quarles as Chair
Mark Carney will step down from the role of chair at the Financial Stability Board (FSB) at the end of this month, making way for Randal K Quarles, governor and vice chairman for supervision at the US Federal Reserve, to take the chair for a three-year term running from December 2, 2018 to December 1,…
LSE Group Names Tom Dunlap as CDO of Information Services Division
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has named Tom Dunlap as chief data officer (CDO) of its Information Services Division, which includes global index provider FTSE Russell. The role is new and gives Dunlap responsibility for developing and leading the division’s global data strategy, overseeing a global team across multiple sites, engaging with key global clients,…
Horizon Software Names Keith Todd as a Member of its Advisory Board
Horizon Software has named Keith Todd CBE as a member of its advisory board. The addition of Todd to the Horizon team follows a management buy-out of the company with private equity firm Capzanine in June 2018 and a period of growth. Todd brings over 40 years of technology business experience to institutions ranging from…
Digiterre Names Rob Swan as Partner and Commercial Director
Trading and investment technology supplier Digiterre has named Rob Swan as partner and commercial director. Swan has held positions at HSBC Asset Management, Close Brothers, Henderson Global Investors, Skandia Investment Management and Neuberger Berman. He most recently led the data services team at Calastone, where he offered a global distribution insight tool for both fund…
Vela Names Scott Visconti as Chief Technology Officer
Vela has named Scott Visconti as chief technology officer (CTO), a role reporting to CEO Jennifer Nayar and responsible for technology strategy, supporting growth and next stage development of Vela’s product stack, services and processes. Visconti will be based in Vela’s headquarters in New York and will lead the global development team while working alongside…
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Upcoming Webinar: Privacy vs. Surveillance: Managing conflicting regulations in Germany and other privacy-sensitive jurisdictions
Date: 27 June 2019 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET. The EU’s MiFID II and other regulations globally have placed greater emphasis than ever on market surveillance, recording of trading communications and records-retention processes in an attempt to stamp out market abuse and boost investor confidence and protections. At the same time,…
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FRTB Special Report
FRTB is one of the most sweeping and transformative pieces of regulation to hit the financial markets in the last two decades. With the deadline confirmed as January 2022, this Special Report provides a detailed insight into exactly what the data requirements are for FRTB in its latest (and final) incarnation, and explores what needs to be done in order to meet these needs on a cost-effective and company-wide basis.
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Delivering Algo Performance through Enhanced Market Simulation
The global shift toward unbundling of research services from execution is forcing sell-side institutions to focus on differentiating their service offerings as they vie for buy-side liquidity in an increasingly competitive marketplace. With soft-commissioned research and high-speed connectivity to trading venues no longer potent as differentiators, the sell side is acknowledging that the quality and...
Alternative Data: Application and Best Practices for Investment Management Firms
Knowledge is money in capital markets and alternative data is fast becoming part of that knowledge, but it is not always easy to source, evaluate, integrate and use to best effect. The data may be incomplete, unstructured, include data that isn’t permitted for redistribution under privacy laws, and have limited or no archive available for...
Getting eComms Surveillance Right
Demand for electronic communications (eComms) surveillance has risen in response to regulatory requirements and compliance needs to pinpoint problems such as market abuse without wasting time and resources reviewing false positives. Innovative technologies such as machine learning, natural language understanding (NLU) and other strands of artificial intelligence (AI) are improving financial services firms’ ability to...
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TradingTech Summit New York City
The TradingTech Summit is aimed at senior-level decision makers in trading technology, electronic execution, trading architecture and explores progress trading firms are making towards digital transformation initiatives and how they are using high performance technologies to gain an edge in the current regulatory environment.
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The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) Breakfast Briefing, will examine how the capital markets industry is approaching FRTB data management and will look at the implications for the ways that firms source, manage and store data for FRTB compliance.
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The TradingTech Summit in London brings together European senior-level decision makers in trading technology, electronic execution and trading architecture to discuss how firms can use high performance technologies to optimise trading in the new regulatory environment.
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