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...
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...
Duco Plans to Add Products, People and Markets Following $28m Investment
Duco plans to expand its cloud data engineering solutions and extend its global footprint following a $28 million investment round. The investment reflects interest in the fintech’s Duco Cube software-as-a-service solution and growing uptake of cloud technology across the industry. The company provides technology that enables banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges to normalise, validate...
UBS MTF Selects Aquis Technology for MiFID II Surveillance and Reporting
UBS MTF (Multilateral Trading Facility) has selected Aquis Technology, the regtech services arm of Aquis Exchange, to provide market surveillance and RTS 27 reporting software as required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). UBS selected the Aquis Market Surveillance solution on the basis of its strong and comprehensive market monitoring and surveillance,...
Exactpro Concludes Buyout from London Stock Exchange Group
Exactpro Systems has been bought out of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) by a company incorporated by the former’s founders. Deals of the acquisition were not disclosed and the LSEG is expected to remain a customer of Exactpro, which will provide an independent software quality assessment of LSEG’s core platforms based on a multi-year...
Deutsche Börse Reaps the Benefits of Implementing Metamako Network Devices
Deutsche Börse Group is reaping the benefits of Metamako FPGA-based network devices in its colocation network, including the ability to gain greater insight into the network and use precisely timestamped packet capture data for analyses that were not previously possible. The exchange deployed 60 Metamako K-Series devices running MetaWatch, an ultra-precise tapping and timestamping application,...
Mizuho Securities Integrates Nomura Research AI to Monitor Communication
Mizuho Securities has implemented Nomura Research Institute’s (NRI) voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to optimise the monitoring and analysis of communication between investors and sales reps that is tracked for both compliance and customer care purposes. The voice recognition and AI systems are based on NRI’s TRAINA VOICE Digest and have been customised...
Quant Insight Adds Analytics Dashboard to Trading Tools Portfolio
Quant Insight, a London based macro research firm providing discretionary managers with actionable investment ideas, has introduced the QI Analytics Dashboard that allows users to analyse and visualise patterns between asset prices and the macro forces driving them. The dashboard also provides tools to identify the best trading expression across all asset classes. Mahmood Noorani,...
Eze Software Partners with MSCI to Roll Out Real-Time Factor Analysis
Investment management software provider Eze Software has teamed up with factor analytics specialist MSCI to enable investors to measure their exposure to risk in real time and adjust exposure as they trade throughout the day. Eze is integrating MSCI’s factor exposure data into its order management system (OMS), with MSCI providing coefficients of the Barra...
TORA Delivers AI Tool Designed to Help Traders Meet MiFID II Best Execution
Investment solutions supplier TORA has developed a pre-trade analytics solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help trading firms meet the best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). TORA is offering the tool as part of its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), enabling traders to monitor costs across...