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Traders Turn to the Dark Side as MiFID II Spotlights Liquidity
A report by Liquidnet highlights the impact of MiFID II on trading behaviour in Europe, including a rise in large-in-scale (LIS) block trading in dark pools, periodic auctions and systematic internaliser (SI) volumes, as traders hunt for liquidity. The ‘Buy-Side Perspectives Survey: Post MiFID II’ is based on interviews with 58 heads of trading and…
Key Efficiency Drivers for Evolving Fixed Income Markets
By: David Murray, Marketing and Chief Business Development Officer, Corvil Today’s fixed income markets are in transition, with changing roles of participants, an evolving regulatory climate, increased market fragmentation, accelerating electronification, a shift from active to passive investing, and macroeconomic factors all exerting influence. Unlike many other markets, fixed income markets are neither centralised and…
Horizon Software sets Development Plans Following Capzanine Investment
Horizon Software is planning to develop its electronic trading platform and build geographical presence on the back of investment from European private equity firm Capzanine. The equity firm has taken a majority stake in the company alongside shareholder Sylvain Thieullent, CEO at Horizon, and the management team. Thieullent says the investment will help Horizon confirm…
TTG Capital Selects Trading Technologies’ Futures Platform
London based global proprietary trading group TTG Capital (TTG) has selected Trading Technologies’ (TT) futures trading platform to scale its business and infrastructure technology through access to TT features and technology including Autospreader, ADL, charting, functionality for options trading and analytics, and connectivity to all TT supported markets through TT’s global network of colocated data…
Enterprise Structure from Hyannis Port Research brings Buy-Side Benefits
In April 2018, US-based capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) expanded into the European market to offer high-tech multi-jurisdictional solutions for European investment banks and major buy-side funds. With an approach based around an end-to-end offering, the firm brings its experience with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Rule 15c3-5 on…
BNP Paribas Offers Buy-Side Clients Fidessa-Based Derivatives Workstation By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter
Fidessa has signed a distribution partnership with BNP Paribas to make its GT platform available to the bank’s institutional clients. Under the agreement, BNP will distribute Fidessa’s futures and options order management system as part of as Cortex Listed institutional trading platform to buy-side clients across all regions. The partnership results from increasing demand from…
ITRS Adds Capacity Planning Capability Through Acquisition of Sumerian
ITRS Group has concluded a nine-month partnership with Sumerian, which developed ITRS Insights Capacity Planning, with the acquisition of the firm. The acquisition combines ITRS’ real-time monitoring software with Sumerian’s predictive capacity analytics to help financial institutions save money on under-used resources, while quantifying business risks and avoiding outages. The solution takes large-scale data from…
TORA Partners Trax to Support MiFID II Trade and Transaction Reporting
TORA has extended its provision of MiFID II solutions through a partnership with Trax, the European market data division of MarketAxess. The partnership will combine TORA’s order and execution management system (OEMS) with the Trax regulatory reporting engine to provide users with straight through processing for the trade and transaction reporting requirements of MiFID II….
GMEX and Digital Asset Group JV Bridges Traditional And Emerging Technologies
GMEX Group and Digital Asset Group (DAG) have created a joint venture designed to bring together the practices of regulated banking, finance and exchanges with emerging technologies including blockchain, distributed ledger and artificial intelligence. The collaboration between DAG, provider of a crypto platform, and GMEX, provider of multi-asset exchange trading and post-trade solutions and technology,…
Trading Technologies Adds RCM-X Automated Execution Algos to Trading Platform
Trading Technologies (TT) has added RCM-X’s automated execution algorithms to its trading platform. The seven RCM-X algo strategies cover TWAP, VWAP, IS (implementation shortfall), POV, CLOSE, SCALEPOV and ICEBERG for advanced trade optimisation and execution. Algo parameters, such as exceeding percentage of volume, maximum participation and passive price level, are accessible directly from the TT…