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Pico Reaches Agreement to Acquire Corvil, Plans Corvil-as-a-Service
Pico has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Corvil, a deal that will create a powerhouse providing managed trading technology services underpinned by sophisticated real-time performance analytics. The acquisition will combine Pico’s trading technology services with Corvil’s performance monitoring and analytics products to help clients gain greater insight into Pico’s managed electronic trading environments. Existing...
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Research Unbundling for US Asset Managers: ‘One Size Fits Nobody’
TradingTech Insight sits down with Joel Burnette, Solutions Consultant at Red Deer, to discuss the response to the research unbundling requirements of MiFID II and explore how US markets are handling the new normal. TTI: What has been the most interesting thing about the North American research market’s response to MiFID II? Joel: We have...
EMIR and MiFID Transaction Reporting Challenges Continue to Trouble Firms and Regulators
Data quality is proving to be an enduring albatross around the necks of financial institutions that must comply with EU reporting rules under MiFID II and EMIR. A recent disclosure by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) shows that matching rates remain poor for derivatives transactions reported under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation...
Trading Technologies Adds Colocated Execution and Connectivity at ICE Data Centre in Basildon
Trading Technologies International (TT) has added colocated execution and client connectivity services at the ICE Data Services European Liquidity Centre in Basildon, UK, to its global trading infrastructure offering. The expansion to Basildon provides TT’s global user base with the lowest-latency direct market access to ICE’s European derivatives markets through the TT platform, and also...
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Infini Capital Management Selects TORA OEMS for Multi-Asset Pairs Trading
Hong Kong-based multi-strategy hedge fund Infini Capital Management has selected TORA for its pairs trading solution. The firm chose the TORA cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) on the basis of its configurable functionality and on-the-ground support for fund trading activities. The functionality of TORA’s multi-asset, multi-region and broker-neutral pairs application was another deciding…
TradingScreen Certifies Integration with IHS Markit thinkFolio
TradingScreen, provider of an all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), has announced a certified integration with IHS Markit’s investment management platform thinkFolio. The integration ensures that mutual clients benefit from a standardised and certified interface between the two platforms, which will provide scalability and reduce costs. The certification offers thinkFolio clients access to…
Woodseer Global and ULTUMUS Team Up to Deliver ETF Dividend Forecast Product
Woodseer Global, a London-based dividend forecast data specialist and ULTUMUS, a provider of data services for index and ETF data, have released a joint ETF Dividend Forecast product. Across investment banks, asset managers and fund service sectors there has traditionally been a limited choice of sources for ETF dividend forecast data, with either limited coverage…
Redline Trading Extends RedlineFeed Market Data to Cloud Solutions
Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, has announced availability of RedlineFeed for access to real-time and delayed exchange market data for customer solutions deployed in the cloud. The initial release includes support for US equities top-of-book streams at Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres. RedlineFeed’s…
3di Releases Profiler Version 6 with Enriched Catalogue of Alt Data Vendors
3d innovations (3di) has launched version 6 of its vendor analysis tool Profiler, a web-based tool that provides comparative and benchmarking information on market and reference data services, and associated technologies. Version 6 provides an enriched catalogue of alternative data vendors covering multiple industries beyond financial services and delivering unique datasets from non-traditional sources that…
Traiana Releases Automated Post-Trade Service for Equity Swaps Market
Traiana, a provider of infrastructure service for trade lifecycle solutions, has introduced a service that will automate post-trade lifecycle management of the equity swaps market. The Equity Swaps Lifecycle Management service normalises data reported by swap providers and conducts reconciliation and affirmation of daily valuations, payments and legal confirmations to identify any changes to underlying…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Trucost Environmental Data to Xpressfeed
Responding to market demand for unique and differentiated data, S&P Global Market Intelligence has released Trucost environmental data through its data feed platform Xpressfeed. Trucost, part of S&P Global, is a provider of carbon and environmental data and risk analysis. The environmental data is the first of several planned initiatives and releases from Market Intelligence…
Velocimetrics Implements Enterprise-wide Data Lineage PoC at Large European Bank
Velocimetrics has implemented an enterprise-wide data lineage proof-of-concept at a major European bank. Driven by regulation BCBS 239, the bank wanted to achieve automated intra-day reconciliation, correlation and trade netting, but was already challenged to achieve T+1. The primary compliance requirement was to show completeness of reporting, although the project is already showing additional value…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Partners CME Group
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has partnered CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, to offer its first cloud solution. The move modernises JSE’s market data offering that now includes historical equity, equity derivatives, and currency derivatives in the cloud. The historical tick data will enable clients, traders and investors to assess trading opportunities, strengthen their market…
Finastra Partners Xceptor to Automate Reconciliation
Finastra has partnered Xceptor, an intelligent automation software company, to offer new reconciliation functionality to its securities market customers. Xceptor’s out-of-the-box third-party reconciliation functionality allows Finastra’s Fusion Markets customers to automatically reconcile and validate transactions and positions data, including harder-to-handle formats, in a single solution resulting in reduced manual workloads, exceptions and breaks, and improved…
big xyt adds Consolidated View
Market data analytics provider big xyt has released Consolidated View, an extension to its market analysis metrics solutions including the Liquidity Cockpit platform and 250days website dashboard. Consolidated View allows access to a standardised independent view of trading activity across the equity and ETF trading landscape in Europe. Users are able to observe changes in…
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…
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Rapid Addition Taps Former TR Enterprise Chief Powell as CEO
High-performance trading technology supplier Rapid Addition has named Mike Powell CEO, reporting to Executive Chairman and FIX guru Kevin Houstoun. Powell is former managing director for the enterprise division of Thomson Reuters, now known as Refinitiv, responsible for the company’s core data feed and platform business under the Elektron brand. Powell has been working as…
DataRobot Names Rob Hegarty to Lead Push into Financial Markets
DataRobot, an enterprise AI firm, has named Rob Hegarty as general manager of financial markets and FinTech with the remit to expand the company’s reach in these sectors. DataRobot helps clients build and deploy machine learning models to increase revenue, improve efficiency and client experience, and reduce risk. Before joining DataRobot, Hegarty was the founder…
TORA Names Head of US Sales
TORA, a cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) provider, has appointed Thomas Mullooly as head of US sales. In making this appointment, TORA seeks to expand its US sales channels and ensure the value of its OEMS platform is communicated to the global market. Mullooly reports to TORA managing director Chris Jenkins, and joins…
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 Leslie 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,…
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Trade Surveillance and Mobile Recording in the Era of Data Privacy
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, the public’s attitude toward data privacy has hardened, most visibly through new regulations...
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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
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