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Best Practice Approaches to Trade Surveillance for Market Abuse
In 2023, Openmarkets Australia was fined the largest ever penalty imposed by the?Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) of $4.5 million. Among other observations, the regulators noted that Openmarkets had not appropriately calibrated its post-trade surveillance system and that this resulted in an unmanageable volume of alerts, most of which were not reviewed. “This outcome…
CQG Unveils AI Predictive Model for Traders in Futures Market, Tested at 80% Accuracy
CQG, the financial markets technology solutions provider, has announced the successful completion of testing of its artificial intelligence (AI) predictive model for traders, boasting an impressive 80% accuracy rate in forecasting the future movements of the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract. The newly developed machine learning (ML) toolkit is designed to provide retail traders and…
Archax Partners with Talos to Enhance Institutional Crypto Trading and Custody Services
Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Talos, the institutional crypto trading platform. By incorporating its institutional-grade exchange and custody services into the Talos platform, Archax will leverage Talos’s advanced platform capabilities to provide institutional clients with broader access to a diverse range of crypto…
BMLL Moves into Historical Level 1 and Level 2 Data, Building on Level 3 Granularity
Historical market data and analytics provider BMLL, specialists in the provision of Level 3 data, are now offering historical Level 1 and Level 2 data and analytics, built from the ground up based upon their extensive Level 3 datasets. Level 3 data comprises the full order book, and includes every individual message sent to and…
Resilience Amid Conflict: Maintaining Operations During the Ukraine Crisis
When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, escalating the war that had started in 2014, the humanitarian and economic impacts were immediately profound and far-reaching. The invasion and subsequent attacks caused the widespread destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and critical infrastructure such as water and electricity supplies, severely affecting living conditions and access to essential…
Modernising the Front to Back Trading Workflow: Getting Ready for T+1 SEC Settlement
With less than three months to go before the North American securities markets transition from T+2 settlement to T+1, firms have faced numerous operational challenges in adapting to the shortened settlement cycle, and have been making comprehensive preparations to modify their existing processes to comply. As the deadline approaches, what are some of the key…
Driving Trading Innovation and Digitisation with Interoperability And Low Code/No Code Technologies
Interoperability and low code/no code technologies on the trading desk are increasingly recognised as modern approaches that contribute to building successful, agile trading platforms. So how can firms implement these technologies effectively to enhance the user experience and reap some real business benefits? And how do they foster a culture that supports the necessary innovation…
ICE and IPC Systems Set to Launch ICE Voice for Enhanced Trader Communications
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) in collaboration with trading solutions and infrastructure provider IPC Systems, has announced the planned launch of ICE Voice, a new cloud-based audio platform designed to complement ICE Chat, creating a comprehensive communications solution for traders and financial professionals. ICE Voice aims to integrate ICE Chat’s user base of over 120,000 active…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2024. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services, and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology and data solutions to capital markets participants in Europe. The awards were presented during a celebratory drinks reception at the end of A-Team…
Exegy Enhances Liquidity Lamp with Intraday Iceberg Order Signals
Exegy, the market data and trading technology solutions provider, has enhanced its AI-driven iceberg order detection tool, Liquidity Lamp, with the addition of intraday signals that provide quantitative traders with additional insights into iceberg order volumes. The new intraday version of Liquidity Lamp, which filters out the ‘noise’ typically associated with retail and high-frequency trading…