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Tradeweb and Bloomberg Pitch Camp in Amsterdam Ahead of Brexit
Amsterdam is becoming a location of choice for capital markets participants preparing for Brexit. Despite huge uncertainties around how Britain’s exit from the EU will, or won’t, pan out on March 29, 2019, the latest arrivals in Amsterdam include Tradeweb and Bloomberg. Tradeweb has gained authorisation from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)…
Quest Selects QuantHouse to Support Core Trading Requirements
Quest, an alternative investment firm, has chosen QuantHouse to provide specialised technology services to meet its needs for high quality data and technology, and to tailor solutions for its automated trading clients. With connectivity and hosting services in financial data centres worldwide, QuantHouse allows Quest to connect to brokers, execution venues and other technology providers…
TNS Adds Peer-to- Peer Virtual Private Network Solution
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is offering a peer-to-peer (P2P) virtual private network (VPN) solution that is designed to provide low-cost, secure connectivity to the TNS Secure Trading Extranet. As a simplified P2P VPN solution, it should also help firms reduce the total cost of ownership of VPN estates, while allowing TNS clients to reach the…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Inside Bloomberg’s London Campus – The End of the Data Centre?
Bloomberg’s new London HQ, which opened last year on the site of the old Bucklersbury House between Cannon Street and Bank station, has been lauded by pundits for its innovative and appealing architectural and ergonomic design. Gone are the tanks of piranhas (at least we didn’t see any when we were there) in favour of…
Could MiFID II be the Unlikely Catalyst of AI Adoption in Capital Markets?
By: Terence Chabe, Business Development Manager, Colt Technology Services We are a year on from MiFID II coming into effect, and while the regulation hasn’t caused any of the more apocalyptic consequences predicted, it has transformed the day-to-day life of those working in capital markets. One key change is the vast amount of data firms…
FlexTrade Taps Corvil for Infrastructure, Client Analytics
Buy-side order and execution management system provider FlexTrade has turned to Corvil to industrialise its infrastructure monitoring processes and ultimately help clients optimise their own trading stacks. The move illustrates the ongoing shift to greater transparency around execution quality as firms look beyond transaction cost analysis (TCA) and seek to measure execution performance and offer…
Refinitiv and Tradeweb Renew Data Agreement, But Where Next for Tradeweb?
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has renewed an agreement with Tradeweb Markets to make Tradeweb market data, including additional datasets, available for exclusive redistribution. The expanded, multi-year agreement enables financial professionals to access Tradeweb data across multiple Refinitiv platforms and solutions, based on the user’s individual preferences and workflow requirements….
Linedata Partners with Trade Informatics to Launch Analytics Solution
Paris-based Linedata, a provider of credit and asset management technology, has teamed up with FINRA member and quantitative analytics firm Trade Informatics (TI) to launch a new suite of execution analytics using TI’s Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading (START). Linedata’s order management solution (OMS), powered by START, a broker-neutral, intelligent trading engine, will…
AllianceBernstein Selects ICE Liquidity Indicators to Aid with Regulatory Compliance
AllianceBernstein (AB) has selected ICE Data Services’ ICE Liquidity Indicators service to help support its investment management, liquidity risk management and regulatory compliance obligations. Market participants are addressing liquidity as a risk factor in the fixed income markets and seeking ways to comply with regulations such as SEC’s Liquidity Risk Management Rule, which in part…
Eurex and Vela Partner to Deliver Improvements to Eurex EnLight
Europe’s largest futures and options exchange, Eurex, has joined forces with trading and market access technology provider Vela to enhance electronic access to its selective request-for-quote (RFQ) platform Eurex EnLight through Vela’s Metro Trading Platform. Eurex EnLight is an off-book trading service for listed derivatives launched in December 2017 to provide market participants with a…