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DTCC and iCapital Target Private Markets Infrastructure as Alternative Assets Move Towards Scale
DTCC and iCapital have formed a strategic collaboration aimed at bringing greater automation, standardisation and connectivity to private markets, as growing allocations to alternative investments put pressure on an operational infrastructure that remains considerably more fragmented than its public-markets equivalent. The agreement brings together DTCC’s market infrastructure, processing capabilities and participant network with iCapital’s technology…
FactSet Pushes Deeper into Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure with BCC Group Acquisition
FactSet’s acquisition of BCC Group International (bccg) brings the data and analytics provider further into the infrastructure layer underpinning institutional market data, as financial firms reassess architectures built around legacy distribution platforms. Announced last week, the deal brings bccg’s ONE Platform into FactSet’s Real-Time Solution Suite, combining FactSet’s real-time, historical and reference data capabilities with…
Why the Future Trading Desk Looks More Augmented Than Autonomous
After decades of electronification and automation, the next stage in the evolution of the buy-side trading desk may be less about removing traders from execution than changing the information, tools and decisions that reach them. That was one of the clearest themes to emerge from A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Insight webinar, The Buy-side Trading Desk…
TS Imagine Pushes AI Deeper into Trading Workflows with TSIQ
TS Imagine is taking its use of artificial intelligence beyond information retrieval and analysis and into trading, portfolio and risk workflows with the launch of TSIQ, an AI platform designed to explain, recommend and – subject to user-defined controls – act. The launch follows a five-year, $100 million investment by the company in data, infrastructure…
Liquidnet Targets Fragmented Liquidity Landscape with Meridian
Liquidnet has brought its algorithmic trading capabilities together under a new proposition, Meridian, as institutional equity traders face an increasingly complex liquidity landscape spanning lit and dark venues, bilateral liquidity and other execution mechanisms. The launch is the culmination of an 11-year expansion of Liquidnet’s electronic trading business. Meridian combines its algorithms, analytics, quantitative services…
The New Economics of Equities Trading Infrastructure
How modular architecture, 24/5 trading, and the rising cost of change are reshaping equities infrastructure By Ian Salmon, Head of Accelerator Program, Adaptive. Equities trading infrastructure has traditionally been judged against a familiar set of measures: latency, throughput, reliability and the ability to remain stable during periods of intense market activity. Those requirements remain fundamental….
Exegy and MarketsIO Target the Market Data Migration Deadlock
For years, financial institutions have faced an uncomfortable trade-off around enterprise market data infrastructure. Legacy platforms may be expensive, complex and increasingly ill-suited to modern trading environments, but replacing technology embedded across hundreds or thousands of applications can introduce even greater cost and operational risk. A recently announced partnership between Exegy and MarketsIO is taking…
The Low-Latency Race Shifts from Speed to Scale and Control
For years, the evolution of low-latency trading infrastructure has largely been measured in one direction: faster. Microseconds became nanoseconds as trading firms invested in colocation, network optimisation, specialist hardware and FPGA acceleration to gain an edge in markets where position in the queue can determine whether an order is filled. That race hasn’t gone away….
Waypoint Launches Archon to Tackle Market Data Entitlement Complexity
Waypoint Trading Solutions, the TNS business built on the combination of TNS Financial Markets and Radianz, has launched a new market data entitlement management platform designed to give financial institutions greater control over user permissions, exchange reporting and the costs associated with market data consumption. The new system, Waypoint Archon, centralises entitlement tracking across individual…
BMLL Adds Kalshi Data as Prediction Markets Move Deeper into Institutional Workflows
BMLL, the market data and analytics provider, has added historical prediction market data from Kalshi to its global market data platform, giving quantitative and systematic investment firms a standardised dataset for incorporating event probabilities into macro research, backtesting and trading models. Under the partnership announced today, Kalshi’s historical order book will be normalised into the…