Fintech this, fintech that. It’s everywhere you turn. A bit like social media for finance just a couple of years back, whose community of tweeters and chatterers have fallen eerily silent (although tweeting is silent anyway, isn’t it?). Sitting over a Turkish lunch in Whitecross Street with a 30-year veteran of the high-performance market data…

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Orient Securities has implemented Orc’s Trading Bricks platform to support its options market making operations on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The securities firm chose Orc’s turnkey market making solution in a competitive selection process and on the basis of Orc’s market reputation and its platform’s rich feature set. Orient, one of the largest securities firms…

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By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on…

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Thomson Reuters has simplified access to its data feeds and services with a family of open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to help developers create innovative applications quickly and more easily than was previously possible. The Elektron API family is a response to customer interest in open source APIs that can be…

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Fidessa has made its first move into the low-latency, low-touch trading technology market with a low-latency direct market access (DMA) platform that is delivered as a managed service and aims to provide brokers with high-performance, scalable and consistent access to global equity and derivatives markets. The platform is the first service to emerge from Fidessa’s…

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Orc has teamed up with Galaxy Futures Co. to allow its customers to trade on Chinese markets using Galaxy’s exchange memberships. This is Orc’s first joint offering with a local broker in China and builds out its Asia-Pacific strategy of developing close cooperation with regional brokers. The cooperation between Orc and Galaxy integrates Galaxy’s gateways…

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Fonetic has fused information on completed trades with all the voice and text communications associated with the trades to deliver a linguistics-based automated trade reconstruction solution. Called ATR integra, the solution is powered by a proprietary algorithm and can replace time-consuming manual reconstruction processes with automated collection, analysis and matching of trade and communications information….

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We’ve been tracking the developments in the high frequency trading technology space since the launch of Low-Latency.com in 2006 or thereabouts. Now retired and living near Heathrow – or rather, reincarnated as Intelligent Trading Technology – she watches with interest as the superfast aspect of our marketplace finally approaches the endgame, where physics finally says…

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By Zoe Schiff The idea that blockchain technology can aid in the development of real world trading technology gained more credence this month with the news that Mirror – a trading platform operator formerly known as Vaurum – has received $8.8 million in Series A funding from investors led by Route 66 Ventures. San Francisco-based…

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Symbiont is planning to issue its first private equity shares as smart securities on the bitcoin blockchain next month with a view to demonstrating its capabilities to financial institutions interested in programmable securities that are stored on a cryptographic distributed ledger called a blockchain. Beyond the demonstration, the company aims to offer a service based…

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