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QUODD Acquires Xignite, Enhances Cloud-Native Market Data Offering
QUODD, the market data-on-demand provider, has acquired Xignite, the specialist in market data APIs, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition adds more than 500 market data APIs, covering millions of instruments across all asset classes, to QUODD’s solutions set. The combined business will serve a client roster of more than 2,200 companies, ranging from the...
UK Firms Behind on their Plans for EMIR Refit, Novatus Survey Finds
UK firms are largely behind in their plans to comply with the EU’s EMIR Refit transaction reporting regulation, which comes into effect April 29, 2024. Moreover, they are finding the increased technological complexities introduced by the update particularly challenging. These are among the main findings of a survey conducted by Novatus Advisory on readiness for...
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Data Transformation in Quant Research and Trading
Quantitative workflows rely on sourcing, aggregating, normalising and managing data. This can be highly resource-intensive, leading to a situation where some financial institutions with quant shops are more focused on data management than on data science and modeling. So how can the data ingestion, management, and pipeline processes of quant workflows be streamlined, allowing quants...
TNS Rolls Out Dedicated Server Offering for Capital Markets
TNS, the infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services provider, has launched a standardised Dedicated Server offering, the first step in introducing the company’s new cloud platform for financial markets. The product is designed for high-performance trading and utilises TNS’s bare metal servers, along with ultra-low latency trading connectivity through TNS Layer 1. “What we’re...
ESG Data Spotlight Shines on Sovereign Debt and its Challenges
The ESG lens is being focused on sovereign bonds, considered by many observers as the next frontier for sustainability data. The Assessing Sovereign Climate-Related Opportunities and Risks (Ascor) project has launched a framework for assessing government debt that it hopes will develop into a standalone tool. The organisation, which comprises asset owners and managers that...
Mizuho Bolsters ESG Data Capabilities as Japan Toughens Regulations
Japanese financial giant Mizuho Bank has upgraded its ESG data capabilities as the government in Tokyo tightens rules on sustainability reporting and after the bank was implicated in a greenwashing scandal. The financial services major has put in place a disclosures and data verification framework to help it assess the progress and credibility of net-zero...
A-Team Group’s Lorna Van Zyl Featured on FinTech Focus TV, Discussing TradingTech Summit London
In anticipation of this year’s TradingTech Summit London, we’re delighted that A-Team Group’s Head of Event Content, Lorna Van Zyl, was the star guest on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, talking with Toby Babb of Harrington Starr. In a wide-ranging interview, Lorna shares what goes on behind the scenes when putting the event...
S&P Global Forges Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Business Growth and Innovation
S&P Global and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are building on a longtime relationship with a multi-year strategic collaboration that will be based on AWS as preferred cloud provider and help S&P Global enhance its cloud infrastructure, accelerate business growth, and engineer innovation. The collaboration reinforces S&P Global’s efforts to optimise its data and technology assets...
Alveo Sets Sights on Accelerating Market Data Migration to Cloud and Improving Business User Access to Data
Alveo has set out its next stage strategy with a focus on two key themes – accelerating client migration of market data to cloud, and building out its self-service data provision for business users. Also on the agenda are ESG data management, industry partnerships, and development of AI tools. To find out more about the...
Trends in Electronic Trading
By Jeffrey Britell, Senior Vice President – Global Network Services, IPC Systems. In the past 20 years, electronic trading technology has opened up what was a largely interbank domain to a much broader financial community that includes investment managers, buy-side and retail firms and increasingly, non-traditional, technology-led firms. From the early days of order management...