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FinClear Adopts Eventus’ Validus Platform for Enhanced Trade Surveillance and Monitoring
FinClear, Australia’s leading full-service infrastructure provider for financial markets and provider of trade execution and third-party clearing services, has deployed the Validus platform from Eventus for trade surveillance and post-trade monitoring. This strategic move is aimed at bolstering FinClear’s capabilities in overseeing one in two retail transactions in Australia and managing over AU$360 billion in…
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Chooses OneTick Surveillance for Market Oversight
In a significant development for UK financial market regulation, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has selected OneTick Surveillance from OneMarketData, LLC, as its primary market surveillance and visualisation system. The cloud-based service is designed to enhance the FCA’s ability to detect and investigate market anomalies, thereby safeguarding the integrity and orderly function of the UK’s…
interop.io – Building Ecosystems of Interoperable Applications
Last week, interoperability provider interop.io announced their collaboration with Infront, the European financial market data solutions provider, to enhance the front office trading platform for Deutsche Numis, by integrating their core Fidessa platform with Infront’s retail service provider quotation (RSP) solution. This is a great example of interoperability in action, as discussed in depth during…
Are Firms Prepared for Wave of Messaging Fines Headed for Britain?
By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. The last few years have seen market regulators dole out record numbers of fines to financial institutions over their failure to adequately monitor employee communications on instant messaging applications like WhatsApp. According to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division chief Gurbir Grewal, the regulator has filed charges against…
TMX Group Unveils Two New Order Books to Democratise Speed and Improved Execution Quality
TMX Group has introduced two new equities order books on its Alpha trading platform, Alpha-X and Alpha DRK, in a move that aims to democratise speed of access and improve execution quality for natural order flow on the Canadian market. The launch of the two new order books promises a more optimised trading environment that…
The Key to Unlocking Alpha: The Data You Didn’t Know You Needed
By Brandon Tepper, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Data at Nasdaq. Markets can be up or down, volatile or steady, good or bad. But what is consistent is that companies and investors need to make important data-driven decisions to properly navigate them. The difference between success and failure lies in what types of…
Exegy Introduces FPGA-Based FIX Protocol Support to Enhance Performance and Efficiency
Front-office trading solutions provider Exegy has integrated FIX protocol support into nxFramework, its FPGA-based development framework, aiming to reduce server resource consumption for FIX protocol processing by an estimated 10-20 times. In May last year, Exegy acquired Paris-based Enyx, a leading developer of FPGA-based, high-performance trading solutions. By leveraging their extensive expertise in FPGA technology,…
From BondGPT to BondGPT+: The Evolution of LTX’s AI-Driven Application
Earlier this year, LTX, a subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, launched BondGPT, an application driven by OpenAI’s GPT-4, designed to streamline corporate bond selection. Last month, the company announced the launch of BondGPT+, the enterprise version of the application, which contains a range of new capabilities. In this Q&A, TradingTech Insight talks to Jim Kwiatkowski,…
Unlocking the Potential of Relative Value Strategies in Fixed Income Trading
By Tommaso Di Grazia, Head of Fixed Income Product Development, ION Markets. In the complex world of fixed-income trading, relative value (RV) strategies have long been popular among brokers seeking to capitalize on market inefficiencies. These strategies can involve exploiting the mispricings identified by their customers in fixed-income markets globally. To do this, brokers execute…
SteelEye Introduces Compliance CoPilot to Enhance Communication Surveillance
Following its integration of ChatGPT 4 into its compliance platform earlier this year, surveillance solutions vendor Steeleye has launched the Compliance CoPilot, an AI-driven compliance tool that harnesses the power of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the communication surveillance alert review process. As regulatory bodies worldwide continue to impose fines on investment banks…