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Fidessa BlockShadow Solves MiFID II Block Trading Problem
Fidessa has worked with long-standing client Redburn to deliver BlockShadow, a service driven by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and designed to provide intelligent access across conditional dark venues for best execution of large orders. BlockShadow manages the whole process of placing multiple conditional orders on these venues, while at the same…
Risk Focus Adds Regulatory Reporting Advisory
Risk Focus has introduced Regulatory Reporting Advisory (RRA), a service designed to help clients comply with trade reporting regulations, meet aggressive deadlines and build solutions for regulatory compliance, including upcoming regulations such as Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR), which takes effect in early 2019. Risk Focus RRA offers support for all aspects of regulatory reporting…
ESMA Publishes Double Volume Cap Data
After delaying publication of double volume cap (DVC) data just after go live of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFDI II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now has published DVC trading volumes and calculations. The purpose of the DVC mechanism is to limit the…
CLS Offers CLSReporting to Support MiFID II FX Reporting Requirements
Market infrastructure provider CLS has introduced CLSReporting, a product for foreign exchange (FX) matched instructions that supports members with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reporting requirements. The product is a response to market demand and will provide the ability for parties and counterparties to FX trades to exchange additional information in settlement…
S&P Global Extends AI and Analytics with Acquisition of Fintech Firm Kensho
S&P Global plans to strengthen its capabilities in emerging technologies through the acquisition of Kensho Technologies, a provider of next-generation data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data visualisation systems to financial institutions and national security. The company will acquire Kensho for about $550 million and expects the deal to close late this quarter…
Jane Street Group Invests in McKay Brothers
McKay Brothers’ low-latency networks and market data services have been endorsed by a minority investment from long-standing client Jane Street Group. The company’s founders continue to hold a controlling majority of McKay’s equity, with other minority investors including IMC, Tower Research Capital, Susquehanna International Group and XR Trading. Stéphane Ty?, McKay Brothers co-founder, says: “Jane…
Mana Partners Goes Live with Metamako Solutions for Better Investment Decisions
New York-based electronic trading and asset management firm Mana Partners has gone live with Metamako, using its network devices to provide cost-effective, nanosecond-level access to exchanges and gaining the ability to make better investment decisions. Concentrating on quantitative and algorithmic asset management, Mana has implemented Metamako’s FPGA-based, Layer 1+ network devices running the MetaMux application….
CMC Markets Joins QuantHouse API Ecosystem
QuantHouse continues to build out its API Ecosystem with the addition of CMC Markets. This will give financial firms within the ecosystem easy and efficient access to CMC’s platform, which supports trading in global single stock constituents, equity indices, FX, commodities and treasury derivatives. Recent additions to the qh API Ecosystem include Jane Street Financial’s…
SIs on the Rise Across Asset Classes
By: Christian Voigt, senior regulatory advisor, Fidessa There’s been much speculation about the revival of the Systematic Internaliser (SI) as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has sharpened its rules. So, now that we’re almost two months into the new regime, how is it looking? Luckily the regulators (e.g. ESMA and FCA) publish…
Fidessa and Virtu Partnership Provides Virtu SI Liquidity to Fidessa Solutions
Fidessa and Virtu Financial have partnered to give users of Fidessa’s market access solutions access to Virtu’s systematic internaliser (SI) disclosed liquidity, as well as improved upstream workflow to manage the more complex trading environment of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Virtu’s customisable SI price feeds are integrated to Fidessa’s smart routing…