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SWIM – Retail Liquidity goes from Strength to Strength
By Joe Everitt, Managing Director SELECT, Stifel Europe Double-volume caps, large-in-scale restrictions, periodic auctions and systematic internalisers. In the first eight months of the new MiFID II regime the trading landscape has evolved radically. New liquidity venues abound fulfilling a variety of purposes and masters, some merely enabling the compliant trading of existing business in…
TP ICAP Rolls Out Data Products for SOFR-Linked Derivatives
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter TP ICAP has introduced two distinct data feeds for derivatives linked to the Secured Overnight Financial Rate (SOFR) benchmark, an alternative to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) that was first published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in April 2018. The data products have been sourced from…
Aquis Exchange Sidesteps Brexit with Plan to Set Up Paris-Based Company
Aquis Exchange, operator of a pan-European cash equities multilateral trading facility (MTF) and provider of exchange software to third parties, is establishing a venue in Paris to ensure it can continue providing financial services to its members across Europe following Brexit, which may be as soon as the end of March 2019. The company has…
QuantHouse Provides Optimised Direct Access to Cboe Market Data
QuantHouse is providing clients with optimised direct access to Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) market data for US equity and equity options via its low-latency market data offering QuantFeed and order routing service QuantLINK. The partnership will enable QuantHouse clients to access all asset classes traded by Cboe from all QuantHouse data centres via a…
ICE Partners OneMarketData to Deliver On-Demand Tick Data and Analytics Service
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has teamed up with OneMarketData to deliver an on-demand tick data and analytics service based on the OneTick platform and provided within the ICE Consolidated Feed. OneMarketData’s OneTick analytics will be hosted by ICE Data Services and powered for customers by the ICE Consolidated Feed, offering a cost-effective, on-demand data platform integrated…
Bell Direct Selects FlexTradeOMS for Smart Order Router Algo Strategies
Australian-based online broker Bell Direct has selected FlexTrade’s order management system (OMS) for smart order router algorithmic strategies for the Australian Stock Exchange and Chi-X Australia. Lee Muco, chief operating officer at Bell, says the broker chose FlexTrade because its global, multi-asset and end-to-end OMS caters to the company’s existing workflow while also considering the…
Exegy Partners TNS to Deliver Global FX Trading Platform
Market data normalisation and distribution technology provider Exegy is working with managed data communications and interoperability specialist Transaction Network Services (TNS) to create a global FX trading platform. The partnership will combine Exegy’s Trade Port FX, which delivers normalised FX market data and execution services, and TNS’ market connectivity and hosting solutions to offer a…
Archax selects Aquis Technologies to underpin institutional-grade crypto exchange
Archax, the institutional-grade crypto and security token exchange due to open in the first half of 2019, has selected Aquis Technologies for a complete suite of exchange operations services and tools to support its business. The suite includes the Aquis Matching Engine (AME) and Aquis Market Surveillance (AMS), as well as market operations and post-trade…
Continuous Development Key to Future Proofing Your Back Office
By Amrik Thethi, chief technology officer, Torstone Technology Most of us will agree that trying to get fit after a period of inactivity can be a challenging endeavour. What’s more, those who do not commit to making fundamental lifestyle changes on a long-term basis will most likely find any physical gains short lived. This analogy…
FlexTrade Introduces Fast Back-Testing Framework for Equities, FX and Futures
FlexTrade has introduced a back-testing framework designed to gauge and adjust the performance of past trading strategies for real-time use in trading equities, FX and futures. The solution is available as an addition to the company’s FlexTRADER EMS and OMS platforms and is designed to allow traders to test an unlimited number of financial instruments…