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SDX and RULEMATCH Partner to Provide Institutional-Grade Crypto Trading & Settlement Solution
SDX, the Zurich-based digital asset infrastructure subsidiary of SIX Group, has partnered with RULEMATCH, the institutional crypto and digital asset trading venue, to deliver a comprehensive, institutional-grade, end-to-end solution for the digital asset market, aimed at addressing the challenges of efficiency, security, and compliance for banks and financial institutions. This collaboration marks a significant step...
Exemptive Relief Expiry Alert: Fidessa Prepares for February 2025 CAT Deadline
The long-running consolidated audit trail (CAT) project has been a major industry achievement but with a compliance deadline rapidly approaching, exemptive relief on some particularly complex reporting issues is due to expire in February 2025. RegTech Insight caught up with ION’s Douglas Craig, Senior Product Manager at Fidessa who had raised concerns on the complexity...
Smart Trader Desktops: Placing UX at the Front and Centre of the Trading Workflow
No matter how advanced the technology stack or feature-rich the interface, a trading platform’s true effectiveness lies in the experience and the results it delivers. As user experience (UX) becomes increasingly crucial to the success and efficiency of trading platforms, designers face new challenges. So how can UX design keep up, enhancing performance without sacrificing...
Algo Certification in Electronic Financial Markets under MiFID II
Q&A with Nick Idelson, Co-chair FIX Algo Trading Working Group & Technical Director, TraderServe Limited. Since the introduction of MiFIR and MiFID II in January 2018, investment firms engaged in algorithmic trading have been required to certify that “the algorithms they deploy have been tested to avoid contributing to or creating disorderly trading conditions”[1], explain...
What a Decade of DataOps has Taught Us
By Hervé Chapron, SVP & General EMEA, Semarchy. It has been 10 years since the term DataOps was first coined. It refers to the practice of combining technology and process excellence to improve the quality, usability and, ultimately, value of data to a business. DataOps has evolved from a nascent concept to an integral component...
AiMi Launches AI-Powered Platform to Streamline Capital Markets Infrastructure Management
Fintech company AiMi, the trading and market data infrastructure management solutions provider, has introduced a new AI-powered platform designed to automate and optimise access to capital markets infrastructure. The platform helps firms efficiently manage changes to trading venues’ platforms, services, and APIs, addressing the growing complexity and volume of notifications from global exchanges and vendors....
Horizon Partners with China Merchants Securities for Market-Making in Hong Kong’s First Virtual Asset Spot ETFs
Horizon Trading Solutions, the global electronic trading and algorithmic technology solutions provider, has partnered with China Merchants Securities (HK), a leading Chinese investment bank, to deliver market-making solutions for the newly launched Virtual Asset (VA) Spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX). The VA Spot ETFs, introduced on HKEX in April 2024,...
Bloomberg Enhances Credit Risk Signalling Tools That Forecast the Barbie Party
Barbie and her pals no doubt threw a huge party when the company that makes the iconic doll, Mattel, saw its debt upgraded from junk to investment grade by the three major credit rating firms earlier this year. Had they spoken with some market watchers, however, the Barbieland party could have started months – maybe...
Modern Data Management Under the Microscope
The biggest names in data management gathered in New York for A-Team Group’s 14th annual Data Management Summit New York City. In the second part of our account of the major discussion points at the day-long event, guest speakers and panellists talk self-service analytics, regulatory data and tooling implementation. What are the challenges of delivering a...
ESG Data Quality Still Dogs Asset Owners Even as They Boost Allocations
A lack of standardised and reliable data continues to pose a barrier to asset owners’ pursuit of ESG-linked investment strategies, according to a poll that nevertheless found surging incorporation of sustainability considerations in allocation decisions. The latest and third annual Voice of the Asset Owner Survey by Morningstar found that almost 40 per cent of...