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Quest Selects QuantHouse to Support Core Trading Requirements
Quest, an alternative investment firm, has chosen QuantHouse to provide specialised technology services to meet its needs for high quality data and technology, and to tailor solutions for its automated trading clients. With connectivity and hosting services in financial data centres worldwide, QuantHouse allows Quest to connect to brokers, execution venues and other technology providers…
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Improves Compliance
By: Shira Rottner, Business Development Manager, Shield FC Artificial Intelligence (AI) is carving out a growing niche in regulatory compliance because AI and Machine Learning (ML) applications address common challenges and systematic issues that compliance officers face every day. Enterprise software applications that integrate AI can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of regulatory compliance programs…
Temenos Extends Reach into Buy-Side Market Through Collaboration with Bloomberg
Banking software specialist Temenos has formed a strategic collaboration with Bloomberg that could catapult it into the buy-side market. The collaboration makes the Temenos Multifonds Global Accounting product accessible through the Bloomberg terminal, allowing asset managers to generate NAV estimates independent of, and in parallel to, their fund administrators, and enabling accurate daily oversight and…
Datactics Details 2019 Plans Including Public Cloud Solutions, a Sanctions Matching Engine and a Data Quality Clinic
Datactics has made plans for 2019 that will move selected solutions into the public cloud, extend implementation of innovative technologies, create a data quality clinic, and add a matching engine for sanctions screening to its open data projects. The company is also working with clients on data-quality-as-a-service. The company’s commitment to cloud technology, initially private…
TNS Adds Peer-to- Peer Virtual Private Network Solution
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is offering a peer-to-peer (P2P) virtual private network (VPN) solution that is designed to provide low-cost, secure connectivity to the TNS Secure Trading Extranet. As a simplified P2P VPN solution, it should also help firms reduce the total cost of ownership of VPN estates, while allowing TNS clients to reach the…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Inside Bloomberg’s London Campus – The End of the Data Centre?
Bloomberg’s new London HQ, which opened last year on the site of the old Bucklersbury House between Cannon Street and Bank station, has been lauded by pundits for its innovative and appealing architectural and ergonomic design. Gone are the tanks of piranhas (at least we didn’t see any when we were there) in favour of…
CDO Leadership: Yesterday’s Fairy Tale is Today’s Reality
By: Tony Brownlee, Chief Strategy Officer at Kingland Systems Sometimes we all need a good story, especially as we look at the priorities for 2019. We all know the classic children’s story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks stumbles into a house and proceeds to discover three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three…
Regulatory Oversight Committee of the LEI Calls for Final Comments on Fund Relationships
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is calling for final comments on a second consultation document on fund relationships in the Global LEI System (GLEIS) by Monday January 14, 2019. The consultation follows an initial review of fund relationships towards the end of 2017 and is aimed at making sure…
Could MiFID II be the Unlikely Catalyst of AI Adoption in Capital Markets?
By: Terence Chabe, Business Development Manager, Colt Technology Services We are a year on from MiFID II coming into effect, and while the regulation hasn’t caused any of the more apocalyptic consequences predicted, it has transformed the day-to-day life of those working in capital markets. One key change is the vast amount of data firms…
FlexTrade Taps Corvil for Infrastructure, Client Analytics
Buy-side order and execution management system provider FlexTrade has turned to Corvil to industrialise its infrastructure monitoring processes and ultimately help clients optimise their own trading stacks. The move illustrates the ongoing shift to greater transparency around execution quality as firms look beyond transaction cost analysis (TCA) and seek to measure execution performance and offer…