TS Adds QB’s Legger Algo to TradeSmart OEMS
The newly rebranded TradingScreen – now operating under the TS name – has expanded the range of third-party trading algorithms available through its TradeSmart order and execution management platform with the addition of Quantitative Brokers’ Legger premium multi-leg spread-trading algorithm. Legger is one of Quantitative Brokers’ suite of four premium futures and fixed income algorithms,...
Global Trade Surveillance Requirements Across MiFID II, MAR and Benchmark Regulation
By: Jordan Dilworth, research analyst, JWG Since the financial collapse in 2008, regulators have been concerned about the vulnerability of firms engaged in trading activities and have reacted by emphasising preventive measures. Out of this drive emerged trade surveillance, which aims to prevent market abuse and market manipulation. In June 2016, the Market Abuse Regulation...
Smartkarma Challenges Traditional Investment Research Services
Smartkarma is on a mission to break the mould of traditional investment research services with an independent, cloud-based platform that curates research from independent providers and allows users to consume the research by paying a per user subscription. The platform operates dynamically to make all research available to all users in real time, but does...
Vela Adds to Object Trading to Growing Portfolio of Managed Services Components
In another burst of corporate activity, Vela Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Object Trading, a provider of Direct Market Access (DMA), pre-trade risk, and analytical applications. The deal follows hot on the heels of Vela’s recent acquisition of OptionsCity and adds to Vela’s portfolio of high-performance trading and market data offerings. In particular, Object...
Exegy Plans Integrated FPGA and Microprocessor Solutions
Exegy is integrating its field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware with Intel microprocessors to support low-latency services that can benefit from both technologies. The company has early engineering samples of boxes containing both FPGAs and microprocessors, and says release dates depend on Intel’s final integration schedule. Intel’s roadmap towards more tightly integrated FPGA and traditional...
Industry Looks to Market Data for FRTB Compliance
Although regulatory authorities may be giving the financial industry more time to comply with Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) guidelines on market risk and capital adequacy, firms are finding they need to improve their market data management to be ready. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, architect of FRTB, has set its effective...
OTCX-SimCorp Partnership Takes On MiFID II Compliance
OTC derivatives multi-dealer platform OTCX’s recently announced partnership with investment management solutions provider SimCorp makes the OTCX Request For Quote (RFQ) platform more widely available – and capitalises on the platform’s value for MiFID II compliance, according to Nicolas Koechlin, CEO of OTCX. “We started the OTCX concept a little before MiFID II kicked in,”...
The Time to Implement Innovative Technology for Electronic Execution is Now
Technology innovation is side-lining low latency in the drive to optimise performance and reduce complexity and cost of electronic execution infrastructure – but which technologies are finding favour and what can they deliver? Join the discussion at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City to find out about technology innovation for...
IHS Markit Platform Promises Compliance Cost Savings
Information and analytics solutions provider IHS Markit has begun its rollout of Outreach360, a platform for managing documentation and communication concerning regulatory compliance, according to company officials. The platform will reduce compliance costs and standardize communication with contacts about compliance, says Darren Thomas, managing director and head of the Counterparty Manager service containing the Outreach360...
Going Big, Not Going Home
As operational applications in the financial services industry — mirroring their cousins in general business apps and consumer services apps — continue to get smaller and sleeker, Chicago-based electronic trading technologies provider Trading Technologies (TT) is taking the opposite tack. Since December, TT has gradually rolled out its new service TT Desktop, which offers complex...