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Swift and GLEIF Fulfil Plans to Deliver BIC-to-LEI Relationship File
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published the first monthly relationship file that matches a Business Identifier Code (BIC) assigned to an organisation against its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The file allows market participants to link and cross-reference these key entity identifiers free of charge, streamlining entity verification processes and reducing data management...
Imagine Software Adds Panopticon Dashboards to Portfolio Management
Imagine Software has partnered Datawatch to resell the latter’s Panopticon visual analytics platform with its portfolio risk and compliance management solutions. The Panopticon visual analysis software enables easier monitoring and analysis of risk and profitability in real time, while the company’s business intelligence dashboards help organise data portfolios that risk managers have to navigate, reducing...
Siren Offers Semantic Data Investigation Platform to Financial Markets
Siren is moving its semantic data investigation platform into the fintech sector following a €3 million round of seed funding led by Atlantic Bridge University Fund. John Randles, CEO at Siren, says the semantic platform fills white space between business intelligence solutions and coding of deep analytic tools by providing a product that enables investigation...
QB Offers Algo Trading and Trade Simulator Apps on Bloomberg Terminal
Quantitative Brokers (QB), a provider of algorithms and data-driven analytics for futures and US cash treasury markets, has introduced two apps for traders using the Bloomberg Terminal. The new solutions are available through the Bloomberg App Portal. The first is an enhanced version of QB’s algorithmic trading app, which enables futures and fixed income investors...
Metamako and Redline Partner to Deliver Ultra-Low Latency Trading Solution
Metamako and Redline Trading Solutions have teamed up to deliver an ultra-low latency end-to-end solution for automated trading that is based on the former’s low-latency, FPGA-enabled network devices and the latter’s high-performance market data and order execution systems. The solution combines Redline’s InRush consolidated market data feeds with Metamako network devices to allow InRush to...
Thomson Reuters Releases State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Report
Thomson Reuters has released a State of Regulatory Reform 2018 Special Report highlighting a rise in international divergence in regulatory reform and financial firms racing to apply digital technology. On a geographic basis, the report, now in its eighth annual edition, describes major regulations taking effect in the European Union and Asia Pacific, and the...
Thomson Reuters Data Privacy Advisor Plays into GDPR Compliance
Thomson Reuters’ introduction of Data Privacy Advisor, a research platform that brings together the company’s expertise and a Q&A feature based on IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) technology, plays well into compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the next data privacy milestone, which comes into force in May 2018. The platform combines Thomson Reuters’...
BMO Partners Trade Informatics to Improve Trading Performance
BMO Capital Markets (BMO), the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, has partnered Trade Informatics to access the latter’s transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools and execute algorithmic trades with improved execution quality. The partnership allows BMO to measure and evaluate trade decisions with personalised systematic trading technology that is customised to match...
Options Adds NYSE Integrated Feed to Market Data Connectivity
Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services, has added direct access to the NYSE Integrated Feed. The service will be available to clients using Option’s ultra-low latent connectivity and managed colocation platforms in Mahwah and Carteret, NY4 and NJ2. The addition of the NYSE Integrated Feed sees Options offer connectivity to all...
AxiomSL Names Roger Worthington as Head of Software-as-a-Service Function
AxiomSL has released a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting solution, providing an alternative to on-premise deployment and leveraging its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company’s newly created production operations team overseeing the live-service support of the SaaS capability will be led by Roger Worthington as head of production operations. He will...