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Fidessa Moves Into Low Latency Technology with Direct Market Access Platform
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…
Orc Teams Up with Galaxy Futures to Offer Access to Chinese Markets
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…
Fonetic Fuses Trade and Communications Data to Deliver Automated Trade Reconstruction
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….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Approaching the Low-Latency Endgame?
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…
Mirror Blockchain-Based Trading Platform Gets $8.8 Million Funding
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…
Symbiont Sets Out Plans for its Smart Securities Technology
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…
Electronifie Provides All-to-All Platform for Corporate Bond Trading
Electronifie is challenging problems of liquidity and information leakage in the US corporate bond market with an electronic trading platform that connects buyers and sellers directly but anonymously, limits market impact and generates liquidity. The company was set up by former Goldman Sachs trader and SEC executive Amar Kuchinad in downtown New York in March…
Thomson Reuters Adds Sentiment Data on Companies to its MarketPsych Indices
Thomson Reuters has added indices covering over 7,500 global companies to its MarketPsych indices, giving investors greater insight into how emotions and perceptions move financial markets, and helping them to define more effective trading strategies. The company indices add to MarketPsych indices that have been developed by Thomson Reuters in conjunction with MarketPsych, a consultancy…
MetaMako Launches MetaApp Latency-Reduction Device
By Zoe Schiff Low latency trading specialist Metamako has launched MetaApp, a latency-reduction device aimed at the trading and exchange communities and the telcos that provide them with connectivity. MetaApp seeks to address firms’ growing requirement for flexibility and determinism in their efforts to establish and support low-latency infrastructures in support of fast market access….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Flash Crash Blame Game
As you know, we don’t often wade in on macro market structure issues, preferring instead to stick to our proverbial knitting: trading infrastructure that uses high-performance technologies to introduce some smarts. But the recent arrest of a culprit in the authorities’ long-running efforts to assign blame for the May 6, 2010, so-called Flash Crash –…