Fidessa and Virtu Partnership Provides Virtu SI Liquidity to Fidessa Solutions
Fidessa and Virtu Financial have partnered to give users of Fidessa’s market access solutions access to Virtu’s systematic internaliser (SI) disclosed liquidity, as well as improved upstream workflow to manage the more complex trading environment of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Virtu’s customisable SI price feeds are integrated to Fidessa’s smart routing...
Options Adds Colocation Service at Nasdaq Stockholm, Plans More Venues
Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services, has made its high-performance managed colocation service available at Nasdaq Stockholm, the primary securities exchange of the Nordic countries. The service gives colocated clients low latency connectivity to the exchange’s Nordic feeds and is part of a global expansion plan that will extend Options’ colocation...
QuantHouse adds Jane Street Financial’s SI to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse continues to build out its qh API Ecosystem with the addition of Jane Street Financial’s systematic internaliser (SI). Through its SI, Jane Street offers liquidity for more than 2,000 single stocks from the Cboe Europe universe, with a focus on small and mid-cap names. Jane Street adds to SIs already connected into the qh...
FCA Highlights Good and Bad Practice Across Five Areas of Algorithmic Trading
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a report on the supervision of algorithmic trading that focuses on five areas of algo trading compliance and highlights good and bad practice observed from cross-firm reviews. The FCA report coincides with publication of a consultation paper by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on proposed expectations regarding a...
Ullink Partners LiquidMetrix to Offer MiFID II Best Execution Reporting
Ullink has extended its partnership with financial data specialist LiquidMetrix to provide Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) best execution reporting for its European sell-side clients. The solution, UL Publisher for Best Execution, addresses MiFID II’s requirement for sell-side firms and private banks to produce best execution reports based on data from their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
QuantHouse Adds Exchange Data International to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added Exchange Data International (EDI) to the qh API Ecosystem it established last September as a framework for fintech firms to offer their products as on-demand solutions available through open APIs, and API based users, particularly hedge funds and automated trading firms, to access trading solutions without the complexity of integration. The addition...