Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Glimpse into the Mysterious World of ION Trading
Financial Technology Partners’ announcement this month of its client Carlyle Group’s recent $400 million acquisition of a ‘minority stake’ in ION Investment Group offered an interesting glimpse into the capabilities of the secretive Irish trading technology specialist. The FTP announcement, issued on June 3, quoted Cam Dyer, managing director of Carlyle’s Global Technology, Media and...
Redline Adds Eurex EOBI Order Book Support To its Fast Market Data Solution
Underscoring the important role of Eurex to European markets in general, Redline Trading Solutions has added a feed handler using Eurex’s Enhanced Order Book Interface (Eurex EOBI) protocol. The EOBI interface offers faster access to Eurex order book data, helping firms to respond more rapidly to changes on Eurex whether they are trading in the...
The IDX Roadshow Rolls into Town
June in London means it’s time for IDX – the International Derivatives Expo, the Futures Industry Association’s conference focusing on regulatory and technology issues facing that particular segment of the marketplace. We managed to stop by and say hi to some friends and clients, and savour the atmosphere of this microcosm of the Chicago market....
Sea Otter Implements Itiviti’s Tbricks Platform for ETF Market Making
Sea Otter Global Ventures, a private investment firm based in New York, has implemented Itiviti’s Tbricks platform for exchange traded funds (ETF) market making on NYSE Arca. The firm is a registered market maker on the exchange and deploys proprietary models to trade international ETFs. The Tbricks platform uses an app-based architecture and is provided...
Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange
Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike...
Fidessa Partners Alpha Omega to Support FIX-Based Post-Trade Processing
Fidessa has partnered Alpha Omega to tackle the cost and inefficiency of post-trade affirmation processing, promote use of the FIX protocol, and grow its global trading network. The partnership integrates Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), an industry utility that provides low-cost affirmation processing as an alternative to central matching, and Alpha Omega’s FIX based...
The Role of Real-Time Surveillance in a World of Slow Enforcement
BATS Trading is fed up of being spoofed. On 18 February 2016, the alternative US exchange operator founded in 2005 by high-frequency trading guru Dave Cummings, asked US market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to shorten the time it takes to suspend trading accounts of firms engaged in ‘spoofing’ and ‘layering’ (for BATS...
BSO Networks Builds Out Low Latency Network, Services and Solutions
BSO Network Solutions is planning to extend its low latency trading network into South America, implement its cloud-based trading infrastructure platform within exchanges, and provide a MiFID II compliant time stamping solution. While the company is building out its business with services and solutions, its career started in connectivity, when college friends Michael Ourabah and...
Fidessa Adds Prospector Liquidity Tool to Optimised Trading Initiative
Fidessa has added Prospector, a liquidity tool that helps high-touch traders discover trading and crossing opportunities, to its Optimised Trading initiative. Products already offered as part of the initiative include Fidessa’s Order Performance Monitor, which allows users to monitor live orders simultaneously and identify outliers in real time, and OTAS Market Analytics, which provides insights...
After the Gold Rush: Challenges in Finding Liquidity for Today’s Sales Traders
By Kurt Huhner, Vice President, Business Development – Americas, Fidessa Sales trading lends itself to one of the things that the human brain does better than any computer – pattern recognition – making the leap between potential buyers and sellers. But the role has undergone some fundamental changes over the past few years and, in...