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LTX and TS Imagine Enhance Fixed Income Liquidity Access for Buy Side Through Strategic Integration
LTX, the AI-driven trading platform operated by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has successfully integrated with TS Imagine’s TradeSmart Fixed Income Execution Management System (EMS). The collaboration aims to improve the trading experience for mutual buy-side clients by delivering enhanced pre-trade transparency, superior price discovery, and consolidated access to a wide pool of liquidity within their…
Meritsoft Launches New Trade Tracking and Exception Manager Solution for Enhanced Settlement Efficiency
Meritsoft, the Cognizant company specialising in post-trade automation, has unveiled its new Trade Tracking and Exception Manager (TTEM) solution, designed to offer comprehensive insights into settlement operations for financial institutions. The launch aims to improve operational resilience and efficiency for market participants, minimise settlement failure rates, and elevate client service and reporting standards. The cross-asset…
5 Recurring Themes from Comms Surveillance (Q1-2024)
Communications surveillance came under focus in two sessions at the recent A-Team Group Trading Technology Summit in London in February. During a morning Keynote session, Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-team sat down with Paul Liesching, Chief Revenue Officer at 1Global to discuss “Navigating the Complexity of Communications Surveillance.” An afternoon panel…
BNY Mellon Enhances AI Capabilities with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Deployment
BNY Mellon, in a significant step towards advancing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, has announced the deployment of an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, becoming the first major bank to implement such advanced AI infrastructure. This move was facilitated by a strong partnership with NVIDIA Professional Services, allowing for a faster-than-usual setup of the SuperPOD, which includes…
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…