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Etrali introduces Check Suite to Support Compliance with FCA and CFTC Rules on Call Recording

Etrali Trading Solutions has pulled together functionality it offers around the recording, storing and retrieval of traders’ voice calls to deliver Etrali Check Suite, a solution designed to help firms maintain compliance on the trading floor. The company previously provided on-site engineer checks of recording solutions as part of a managed service, but has packaged...

CMC Markets Adopts SmartTrade’s LiquidityFX Managed Service

CMC Markets, a provider of spread betting, foreign exchange and contracts for difference trading, has selected smartTrade Technologies’ LiquidityFX trading solution for FX and precious metals on the basis of its no brokerage fee model, delivery as a cloud-based managed service and collocation with liquidity providers across Equinix data centres in New York, Tokyo and...

BT Builds Out Netrix Turret Range to Deliver Netrix HiTouch

BT has built out its Netrix range of trading turrets with Netrix HiTouch, a turret that integrates with services delivered by the BT Radianz Cloud as well as with trading applications and market data. The turret is designed to support complex trading strategies requiring high touch collaboration and communication among traders, clients and counterparties, and...

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Steep Learning Curve for Adaptive Trading

As many of you know, we like to spend some time with the marketplace to try to understand some of the nuances of the topics we cover, particularly as we prepare for our big conferences, like the forthcoming Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on May 13. Attendees of our London equivalent last month will...

MarketPrizm and Fusion Systems Deliver Managed Low Latency Market Gateway

MarketPrizm’s tie up with Fusion Systems to offer a managed, low latency market gateway and risk management solution for clients in Asia-Pacific is expected to extend to the US later this year and could reach European markets depending on client demand. The joint offer combines MarketPrizm’s market data, collocation hosting, infrastructure and connectivity services with...

Lab49 Describes Development of UBS Neo Cross-Asset Platform

Lab49, a strategy, design and software development consultancy working with investment banks, asset managers and exchanges, has detailed its involvement in the creation of UBS’s Neo cross-asset platform, which is designed to provide access to all UBS Investment Bank products and services, and includes social web technologies and mobile access. The consultancy’s involvement as a...

Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: To Really Get Big Data You Will Need Both Brains and Brawn

Intelligent Trading Technology was created last year to recognise the shifting emphasis in trading rooms that continue to search for “Alpha” and that elusive competitive advantage. This was to both embrace our existing Low Latency community and expertise, along with those rapidly adopting strategies that use “Big Data” and more sophisticated analytics. Some said that...

Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Kaazing’s Living Web For Everything-as-a-Service

Founded in Silicon Valley back in 2007 as a better way to deliver interactive web apps, Kaazing is getting a new lease of life with the emergence of what it calls the Living Web – its marketing spin on what’s more often called the Internet of Things (IoT), where distributed applications of all kinds communicate...

NanoSpeed Adds Ultra-Low Latency Connectivity to Eurex T7 Using FPGA Technology

NanoSpeed, a provider of ultra-fast field programmable gate array (FPGA) connectivity solutions, has added the Deutsche Börse Group’s Eurex T7 platform to the 30-plus exchanges it offers access to using the Nano-TG trading gateway. As well as access to the Eurex T7 platform, NanoSpeed is offering connectivity to the eight Eurex T7 derivatives partner exchanges...

Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: The Show Moves On

With our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit behind us a couple of weeks ago, the show moves on to New York where, on May 13, we will kick off another packed agenda with a keynote and panel discussion examining the key attributes of what is required from an Intelligent Trading architecture. Although some experts now say...