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Adaptable Blotter Takes Top Place in Up and Coming Financial Technology
Adaptable Blotter from start-up Adaptable Tools has been voted top technology innovation in the Dragons Den session at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit held in Amsterdam. The Adaptable Blotter provides out of the box functionality for datagrids, including powerful filtering, searching, editing and auditing tools. It plugs and plays into whichever technologies are used, and…
Adapt or Miss Out: MiFID II Impact Is Still Uncertain but the Opportunity Is Now
By Michael Tegos, Editor, Smartkarma What’s in a name? For finance professionals in the EU and worldwide, MiFID II (and the slightly more unwieldy full name for which it stands) means upheaval and tumult. For others, it means opportunity. Many might even be thinking of the tired and overused word ‘disruption’. What’s certain is that…
Refinitiv Introduces Cloud-Based Quantitative Analytics Platform
Building on its drive towards cloud delivery of its financial data services, Refinitiv – the former Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has introduced QA Direct in the Cloud, a quantitative analytics platform delivered through Microsoft Azure. QA Direct in the Cloud builds on the QA Direct platform, which was acquired in 2006 as…
Coleman Research Connects Providers and Consumers with Exchange Platform
Coleman Research has introduced Coleman Exchange, a cloud-based software platform that helps research providers and buy-side research consumers manage key aspects of the research workflow. Research firms can use the platform for scheduling, managing subscriptions, and invoicing for analyst access and meetings. The platform also provides entitlements management, producing real-time reports that capture the consumption…
Horizon Software Names Keith Todd as a Member of its Advisory Board
Horizon Software has named Keith Todd CBE as a member of its advisory board. The addition of Todd to the Horizon team follows a management buy-out of the company with private equity firm Capzanine in June 2018 and a period of sustained growth. Todd brings over 40 years of global technology business experience to institutions…
Linear Investments Partners Integral to Expand FX Platform
Prime broker and hedge fund incubator Linear Investments has reached an agreement with Integral that will provide Linear clients with the same level of functionality for FX it already offers for equities, derivatives, and fixed income services. The deployment of Integral’s cloud-based BankFX has enabled Linear Investments to customise its FX platform with sophisticated pricing…
FIX Plans Broader Asset Class Coverage and Move into Back-Office Trade Settlement
FIX is extending its reach with plans to broaden asset class coverage and introduce the FIX messaging protocol into back-office settlement workflows between both asset managers and custodians, and brokers and custodians. These developments are being overseen by the Global Post-Trade Working Group within the FIX Trading Community and are designed to standardise workflows and…
RegTech Summit NYC: Meet The Speakers
The New York edition of A-Team Group’s highly successful RegTech Summit is less than a week away and the industry is gearing up to converge on New York for an event filled with senior speakers, expert practitioners and cutting edge innovators in the RegTech space. Ahead of the big day, we stole a few moments…
Tremblant Capital Selects LiquidityBook
Tremblant Capital has selected LiquidityBook’s SaaS based LBX Buy Side as its portfolio, order and execution management system, with LBX Connect integrated as its FIX routing network. Tremblant is using LBX Buy Side to support its multi-asset trading workflow. It replaces an existing system that was implemented 16 years ago soon after Tremblant’s inception. The…
Beaxy Cryptocurrency Exchange Deploys OneTick as Matching Engine
Beaxy, an all-in-one cryptocurrency exchange has built its matching engine on OneTick, OneMarketData’s flagship high performance analytics and data management platform. The partnership is designed to allow faster transactions, unique and advanced order types, and an overall smoother flow in order books. Based on the OneTick platform, Beaxy will service more than 20 different order…