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Paving the Way to T+1: Automation is Essential for the UK’s Settlement Shift
By Paul Chambers, Xceptor. With the UK’s move to T+1 settlement cycles expected to be a game-changer for financial markets, the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce has been drawing on lessons from North America’s T+1 transition. One such lesson from across the Atlantic is that insufficient automation led to increased manual processing and exception management, putting…
SDX and RULEMATCH Partner to Provide Institutional-Grade Crypto Trading & Settlement Solution
SDX, the Zurich-based digital asset infrastructure subsidiary of SIX Group, has partnered with RULEMATCH, the institutional crypto and digital asset trading venue, to deliver a comprehensive, institutional-grade, end-to-end solution for the digital asset market, aimed at addressing the challenges of efficiency, security, and compliance for banks and financial institutions. This collaboration marks a significant step…
Exemptive Relief Expiry Alert: Fidessa Prepares for February 2025 CAT Deadline
The long-running consolidated audit trail (CAT) project has been a major industry achievement but with a compliance deadline rapidly approaching, exemptive relief on some particularly complex reporting issues is due to expire in February 2025. RegTech Insight caught up with ION’s Douglas Craig, Senior Product Manager at Fidessa who had raised concerns on the complexity…
Smart Trader Desktops: Placing UX at the Front and Centre of the Trading Workflow
No matter how advanced the technology stack or feature-rich the interface, a trading platform’s true effectiveness lies in the experience and the results it delivers. As user experience (UX) becomes increasingly crucial to the success and efficiency of trading platforms, designers face new challenges. So how can UX design keep up, enhancing performance without sacrificing…
Algo Certification in Electronic Financial Markets under MiFID II
Q&A with Nick Idelson, Co-chair FIX Algo Trading Working Group & Technical Director, TraderServe Limited. Since the introduction of MiFIR and MiFID II in January 2018, investment firms engaged in algorithmic trading have been required to certify that “the algorithms they deploy have been tested to avoid contributing to or creating disorderly trading conditions”[1], explain…
AiMi Launches AI-Powered Platform to Streamline Capital Markets Infrastructure Management
Fintech company AiMi, the trading and market data infrastructure management solutions provider, has introduced a new AI-powered platform designed to automate and optimise access to capital markets infrastructure. The platform helps firms efficiently manage changes to trading venues’ platforms, services, and APIs, addressing the growing complexity and volume of notifications from global exchanges and vendors….
Horizon Partners with China Merchants Securities for Market-Making in Hong Kong’s First Virtual Asset Spot ETFs
Horizon Trading Solutions, the global electronic trading and algorithmic technology solutions provider, has partnered with China Merchants Securities (HK), a leading Chinese investment bank, to deliver market-making solutions for the newly launched Virtual Asset (VA) Spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX). The VA Spot ETFs, introduced on HKEX in April 2024,…
Moving to a Modern, Component-Based Trading Architecture Using a Buy and Build Approach
With financial institutions under increasing pressure to modernise their trading infrastructures while maintaining agility and control, the debate around what to buy and what to build in terms of technology solutions is critical. So how should firms weigh the costs and benefits of buying versus building? What role do open-source solutions play in trading systems?…
Practicalities of Implementing Interoperability and Low Code No Code Development Frameworks
Two technologies have recently emerged as pivotal enablers of innovation in the financial markets sector: interoperability and low code/no code (LC/NC) development frameworks. These tools promise to streamline workflows, enhance user experiences, and accelerate product development. But what are the practicalities of implementing them in the complex environment of capital markets? How can firms balance…
Bloomberg Launches Customisable OHLC Bar Product for Intraday Quant Pricing
Bloomberg has introduced its new Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) Bar product, a customisable intraday pricing solution for investment research. Designed to streamline quantitative workflows, the product allows clients to quickly generate tailored intraday pricing datasets using either Bloomberg’s predefined templates or their own customised configurations of trade condition codes, aimed at accelerating insights and alpha generation. The…