A-Team Insight Author: A-Team
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...
Alantra Equities Goes Live with Ullink’s High-Touch and Connectivity Solutions
Alantra Equities (formerly N+1 Equities) has gone live with Ullink’s high-touch order management system (OMS) ODISYS and NYFIX connectivity hub. The Spanish equities broker division of the global mid-market investment banking and asset management specialist Alantra, went live in advance of the January 3, 2018 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) deadline to...
TRG Secures Exclusive Rights to Distribute Vela’s DART Terminal Usage Analytics
TRG continues to build out its spend management and usage tracking business through an agreement with Vela for exclusive global distribution rights to the company’s DART terminal usage analytics. Under the agreement, TRG will provide sales and relationship management for new customers, while Vela will provide after-sales support and development, and continue to manage existing...
QQQ Capital Selects Eze Software to Streamline Investment Workflows
QQQ Capital, Singapore’s new long-term value hedge fund manager, has selected the Eze Investment Suite to automate its operations. The company will launch its QQQ Capital Feeder Fund, a $100 million fund focused on technology, education and tourism, in early 2018, using the Eze software to help streamline front-to-back investment workflows. As a fundamental long-short...
TNS Adds Hosting, Colocation and Connectivity Services in New York and Chicago
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has extended its managed hosting, colocation and connectivity service to New York and Chicago, where it will offer services out of the Secaucus campus and Chicago CH4 data centres. The US offer follows the introduction of the company’s solution in Europe and Asia, where it provides efficient and cost-effective managed hosting...