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What’s Next for Financial Services and MiFID II
By: Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS In Hollywood, with every movie that hits the headlines its sequel is right around the corner. When the credits roll, it no longer marks the end of a film, but the next step in a long and lengthy franchise. The same applies in the world of financial services….
Quant Insight Adds Predata Geopolitical Predictive Risk Signals to Analysis Framework
Quant Insight and Predata have partnered to add Predata’s global geopolitical risk signals from its predictive analytics platform to Quant Insight’s quantitative macro analysis framework and processes. The aim of the partnership is to give institutional investors and traders a better grasp on political, financial and economic factors driving asset prices, and insight to help…
FlexTrade Integrates Kensho AI Driven Analytics into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade has integrated Kensho Technologies’ pre-trade analytics solution into its FlexTRADER EMS, providing a real-time event feed to help traders make decisions when executing a trade and enhance best execution. Kensho captures events to surface company-specific developments, such as product launches, mergers and acquisitions or corporate announcements. These events come from news outlets and other…
CME Group Acquisition of NEX Group Combines Cash, Futures and OTC Markets
CME Group has reached agreement to acquire London-based interdealer broker NEX Group in a deal valued at £3.8 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018 and will bring together two trading industry giants with the ambition to deliver better ways to trade and manage risk across futures, cash and…
Speakerbus and Revista Partner to Offer Voice Compliance and Trade Reconstruction
Speakerbus and Revista have partnered to provide cloud-based voice compliance and instant trade reconstruction capabilities. The Revista platform has been integrated with the Speakerbus high-performance trader voice management portfolio to provide a layer of compliance, while Revista captures every single interaction throughout a trade transaction lifecycle to support trade reconstruction. Andy Wodhams, CEO at Speakerbus…
Options Deploys TradeVision for Real-Time Multicast Gap Detection in Market Data Feeds
Options has integrated Ixia’s TradeVision platform with its managed colocation infrastructure to provide real-time multicast gap detection for market data feeds. The platform will initially be integrated with Options infrastructure across the US, with expansion across European venues during the second half of 2018. Launched in November 2017, TradeVision is a market data monitoring platform…
Elixirr and Kaizen Partner to Deliver Regulatory Reporting Remediation Solutions
Elixirr and Kaizen have partnered to deliver an end-to-end regulatory reporting remediation service for financial institutions. The firms, Elixirr a consultancy and Kaizen a regulatory reporting assurance specialist, will offer clients assurance testing, governance and support for trade and transaction reporting remediation projects. Kaizen’s ReportShield solution checks every item of transaction data for accuracy and…
Highlights of A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit covered hot topics from the evolution of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role to the unfinished business of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the outstanding data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the potential of technologies including cloud, machine learning and artificial…
Cinnober Promotions Move Hans Sjöberg to CTO, Taraneh Derayati to Head of Sales
Cinnober is playing out its succession plan with the promotion of Hans Sjöberg to chief technology officer (CTO) and Taraneh Derayati to head of sales. Sjöberg joined Cinnober in 2012 and now replaces former CTO, Peter Lenti, a founder of the company who will remain active in a senior technology architect and advisory role. Taraneh…
LCG Selects Solace to Accelerate Real-Time Price Distribution
London Capital Group (LCG), a UK-based contract for difference and spread betting provider, has selected information routing specialist Solace to consolidate and upgrade the technology it uses to distribute real-time price information to applications and traders around the world. Handling information routing between LCG’s internal applications, Solace technology will reduce latency and simplify data flows…