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TradingTech Summit Discusses Brexit, Market Complexity, Innovation, and More!
A-Team Group’s first TradingTech Summit under the TradingTech Insight brand got off to a great start with Beate Born, executive director of risk and regulatory management at UBS Wealth Management, providing an inspirational industry keynote on the outlook for risk, regulation and sustainability in 2019. The presentation not only set the scene for the summit,…
BSO Innovation Award Recognises OpenFin’s Disruptive Approach to Desktop Apps
This year’s A-Team Group TradingTech Insight Europe Awards included a special innovation award sponsored by network, cloud and hosting provider BSO. The award was won by OpenFin, provider of an open source, standardised operating environment that allows interaction and interoperability between financial desktop apps. BSO sponsored the innovation award on the basis of its own…
A-Team Group Names Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in London on February 27, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services…
SmartStream Partners with Numerix on ISDA Collateral Management
Financial software provider SmartStream, has confirmed a new referral agreement between its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) platform and US-based risk technology specialist Numerix. The partnership will support TLM users in complying with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)’s margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. TLM Collateral Management offers an automated data management solution designed to…
Genesis Challenges Traditional Trading Solutions with Microservices Framework
Genesis Global will release AQS, an automated quoting system for fixed income desks, today, with a view to helping clients transform trading by automating internal workflows. The product is based on the company’s microservices framework and can be hosted in the cloud, underscoring growing appetite among firms to outsource key elements of the trading technology…
kACE Streams FX Options Prices to Additional End Points
kACE is enabling clients to stream FX Options prices to internal and external clients, single dealer platforms, execution venues and third-party platforms using its latest release of kACE Pro. The kACE Pro platform offers technology to support the lifecycle of FX options and metal options, including pricing, distribution, structuring and trading, portfolio management, straight through…
TickSmith Releases Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Tool
Montreal-based TickSmith has made available its Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) solution offering, providing clients with a library of industry standard transaction cost analytics. Deployed as a turnkey solution with all the flexibility of a custom application, TickSmith’s TCA offering can be calibrated to suit unique client requirements. The TCA add-on to the TickSmith analytics platform…
ICE Clear Europe Set to Weather a No-Deal Brexit
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has been recognised as a third-country central counterparty in accordance with European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), which means that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, ICE Clear Europe can continue to service all its clearing members and customers, including those based in the EU. In the absence of a withdrawal agreement…
SPiCE VC Invests in Forthcoming Digital Securities Exchange Archax
SPiCE VC, a fully tokenised venture capital fund, is investing in Archax, a forthcoming London-based institutional digital securities exchange. With plans to launch in 2019, Archax is primed to provide a venue for institutions and professional investors to trade in all types of security tokens globally. As part of SPiCE’s investment, Ami Ben-David will be…
Fending Off the FAANGS Using High-Performance Switch Technology
A story we published some years ago suggesting that Google was looking at making an acquisition in the real-time market data space sparked unprecedented interest from our readership and to this day remains one of our most viewed articles. Since then, the generic financial services space has seen the arrival of a raft of interlopers…