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OptionsCity Extends Hosting of Metro and Freeway Trading Platforms to London
OptionsCity has extended the hosting of its Metro electronic trading and market making platform and Freeway multi-asset trading engine to London, taking up residence in both the Interxion data centre in Brick Lane, East London and the NYSE data centre in Basildon, east of London. The company’s arrival in London at the end of last…
Options Adds Quincy Extreme Data as it Builds Out Pipe Velocity Platform
Options, a provider of trading infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered Quincy Data to offer its customers trading at Equinix NY4 and the CME access to the Quincy Extreme Data ultra low latency market data service. The addition of Quincy Extreme Data to Options’ Pipe Velocity electronic trading infrastructure solution was driven by a request from an investment…
Bank Vontobel Selects smartTrade Platform for Foreign Exchange Trading
Bank Vontobel has selected smartTrade Technologies’ hosted LiquidityFX platform to support a new foreign exchange service for spot, forwards and swaps trading. The bank opted for the LiquidityFX solution ahead of other options on the basis of its rich functionality and fast time to market. Urs Bernegger, head of RM and advisory FX/PM at Bank…
ITRS Adds Analytic Framework for Data Integrity to Geneos Suite
ITRS Group is piloting an analytic framework for data integrity that is designed to give investment banks, brokers and exchanges a real-time view across pricing data sourced from multiple market data feeds. A production version of the Geneos Market Data Monitor (MDM) will be released on 20 February, offering users predefined relative price algorithms –…
Bloomberg Adds EMIR Reporting Solution to Professional Service
Bloomberg is up and running with a trade reporting solution for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) ahead of next week’s deadline. The company has used existing infrastructure to set up the solution and will initially report trades to European trade repositories operated by DTCC and Regis-TR. Bloomberg is offering the EMIR reporting solution as a…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Step Right Up! ITS is Coming To Town!
The inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit – successor to A-Team’s acclaimed Low-Latency Summits – kicks off in London on March 4 with an action-packed programme of presentations and panel discussions around the convergence of Analytics, driven by Big Fast Data, to initiate the best trades, executed with Low Latency! We are delighted to welcome as platinum…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Eikon – An Icon of Modern Trading Analytics?
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? This week’s unveiling of Eikon 4 – together with a bunch of sentiment analysis capabilities – illustrates the strides Thomson…
Invesco Implements Portware Enterprise for Multi-Asset Trade Automation
Invesco is replacing a number of vendor execution management systems (EMS) with Portware’s Enterprise EMS, which will act as a centralised hub for execution management across all its asset classes. Invesco’s selection of Portware was made after an evaluation of competitive providers that considered not only available products, but also the vendors’ strategies going forward….
Saxo Bank Attracts Early Adopters to its Social Trading Portal
Saxo Bank has opened a portal for social trading on its multi-asset class SaxoTrader platform. Called TradingFloor.com, the portal is open to investors around the world and enables them to share trades, comments and feedback. The portal opened for beta testing late last year and was introduced to the market last week, ahead of full…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Lenovo – Remember That Name
A new name is set to appear in financial markets data centres. With its planned purchase of IBM’s low-end server business, China’s Lenovo is set to become a major arms dealer to trading enterprises. The transaction – announced last week and subject to regulatory approval (including related to foreign investment) – will see Lenovo pay…