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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Convergence Continues
More evidence this week that market practitioners are embracing intelligence in trading with news that a major global investment bank has implemented a risk and data management platform that appears to make a significant step toward the Holy Grail of incorporating enterprise analytics into the pre-trade decision-making process. This is precisely the kind of thing…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Selects Cinnober to Support Strategy for Growth
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) partnership with Cinnober to develop a multi-asset clearing platform is expected to deliver not only real-time clearing, but also overall trading improvements and greater market certainty. The contract between Cinnober and the JSE to build a real-time integrated clearing platform initially handling six asset classes was signed last week. Implementation…
Quincy Data Extends Low Latency Market Data Service to Frankfurt
Quincy Data has pushed further into Europe with the extension of its Quincy Extreme Data service to Frankfurt. The Frankfurt service distributes CME Group market data from the CME Aurora data centre in Chicago to the FR2 data centre in 37.79 milliseconds. The company has also lowered the latency of distributing CME Group data from…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Getting Smart at ITS New York
I’m thrilled that the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit on May 13 in New York is emerging as a match for our new editorial ‘agenda’ here at Intelligent Trading Technology. As you know, we are progressing at pace through our expansion of the remit, from pure low-latency infrastructures to a broader view of how…
Opinion: Will New Liquidity Reporting Lead to a Big Chill?
By Georges Bory, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Quartet FS The collapse and bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 is an extreme example of what can happen when the ratio of liquidity holdings to potential debt is inadequate. The bank was hit with a liquidity crisis as a result of the collapse in the sub-prime mortgage…
Etrali introduces Check Suite to Support Compliance with FCA and CFTC Rules on Call Recording
Etrali Trading Solutions has pulled together functionality it offers around the recording, storing and retrieval of traders’ voice calls to deliver Etrali Check Suite, a solution designed to help firms maintain compliance on the trading floor. The company previously provided on-site engineer checks of recording solutions as part of a managed service, but has packaged…
CMC Markets Adopts SmartTrade’s LiquidityFX Managed Service
CMC Markets, a provider of spread betting, foreign exchange and contracts for difference trading, has selected smartTrade Technologies’ LiquidityFX trading solution for FX and precious metals on the basis of its no brokerage fee model, delivery as a cloud-based managed service and collocation with liquidity providers across Equinix data centres in New York, Tokyo and…
BT Builds Out Netrix Turret Range to Deliver Netrix HiTouch
BT has built out its Netrix range of trading turrets with Netrix HiTouch, a turret that integrates with services delivered by the BT Radianz Cloud as well as with trading applications and market data. The turret is designed to support complex trading strategies requiring high touch collaboration and communication among traders, clients and counterparties, and…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Steep Learning Curve for Adaptive Trading
As many of you know, we like to spend some time with the marketplace to try to understand some of the nuances of the topics we cover, particularly as we prepare for our big conferences, like the forthcoming Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on May 13. Attendees of our London equivalent last month will…
MarketPrizm and Fusion Systems Deliver Managed Low Latency Market Gateway
MarketPrizm’s tie up with Fusion Systems to offer a managed, low latency market gateway and risk management solution for clients in Asia-Pacific is expected to extend to the US later this year and could reach European markets depending on client demand. The joint offer combines MarketPrizm’s market data, collocation hosting, infrastructure and connectivity services with…