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MDX Technology Breaks the Market Data Mould with Project IOWA
MDX Technology, a provider of real-time data distribution solutions for the global trading community, has introduced Project IOWA, a data driven ecosystem designed to redefine the way content owners and content subscribers meet and transact business by using flexible, multi-channel subscriptions to data. The aim of the initiative is to liberate content owners and subscribers…
State Street Acquisition of Charles River Offers Clients Front-Office Data Management Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter State Street has completed its acquisition of financial data firm Charles River Systems for $2.6 billion. First announced in July 2018, the deal gives State Street’s clients access to Charles River’s front-office data aggregation and management platform. The bank has appointed John Plansky, formerly global head of State Street Global…
RegTech Summit Calls for Collaboration Between Vendors, Users and Regulators
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit returned to London last week with an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, lively panel discussions and an innovative regtech showcase featuring four newcomers to the market. The event also hosted numerous sponsors exhibiting leading regtech solutions and was joined by over 200 capital markets participants keen to further their knowledge of,…
Stakeholders Must Work Together to Create a RegTech Ecosystem to Support Innovation
Stephane Malrait, Managing Director of Market Structure and Innovation in Financial Markets at ING, urged the industry to join forces to support growth, development and innovation and overcome the high barriers to adoption for regulatory technology solutions in his keynote speech at the opening of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit at the Tower Hotel in London…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
IPC and RANsquawk Collaborate on Real-Time Audio and Text News Feed
Communications and network solutions provider IPC is collaborating with RANsquawk, a supplier of market information, to offer a real-time audio and text news feed to users of IPC’s Unigy 360 cloud-based software-as-a-service communications and workflow solution. The aim of the collaboration is to help traders using Unigy 360 make better decisions. Users can consume RANsquawk’s…
The CAT Makes Progress with Selection of Exegy to Provide Timestamp Data
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has been a long time in the making, but progress has been made recently with the selection of Exegy’s packet capture service to provide trade timestamps to the CAT, and a move by the FIX trading community to plan a FIX CAT working group to help firms with implementation….
QuantHouse and Enyx Offer FPGA Accelerated Market Data Service in the Hong Kong Exchange Data Centre
QuantHouse (QH) has added ultra-low latency FPGA-based market data specialist Enyx to its API ecosystem to offer trading firms an FPGA accelerated end-to-end market data service. The solution will initially be rolled out in the Hong Kong Exchange data centre (HKEX). To reduce the cost of FPGA implementation and time to market, Enyx and QH…
BSO and Hoptroff Develop Time-as-a-Service Solution to Support Regulatory Compliance
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Global network provider BSO and time synchronisation specialist Hoptroff London have partnered to create a fully traceable and accurate Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution. Hoptroff’s Global Timing Network and AI driven Time-Suite software will be combined with BSO’s global low-latency network to offer a time synchronisation tool that gives firms a timestamp…
BSO Provides Direct Connectivity to India International Exchange
Global network provider BSO is providing international investors with access to the Indian market through direct connectivity to the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in which the India International Exchange (INX) is located. The IFSC is aiming to attract the international financial community by providing domestic and offshore traders equal access to wider global markets…