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Archax Unveils 24×7 Crypto Exchange Tailored for Institutional Investors
In the wake of its $28.5m Series A funding round of November last year, Archax, the regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, has formally launched its 24×7 crypto exchange designed specifically for institutional investors. The move is further evidence of Archax’s role as a pioneer in bridging the gap between the DeFi crypto community…
big xyt and JSE Establish Joint Venture to Market New Data Analytics Platform
big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest stock exchange, have established a joint venture, big xyt ecosystems. The new company will make the Trade Explorer data analytics platform, initially launched in South Africa, available to other trading venues and financial centres worldwide. The…
The Battle for Top Talent: Trends Uncovered in Harrington Starr’s Latest Financial Technology Salary Survey
Leading recruitment specialist Harrington Starr has published its highly-anticipated Financial Technology Salary Survey 2023/24, an in-depth report that provides detailed salary trends, hiring demands, and gender diversity statistics across a wide range of job roles in the financial technology industry. A key finding of this year’s report is that following 2022’s boom year for recruitment…
A-Team Group Releases Institutional Digital Assets Handbook
A-Team Group has this week released the first edition of the Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023, an in-depth guide to the institutional digital assets landscape for trading technologists. Financial institutions have demonstrated a marked and noticeable growth in interest in digital assets in recent years. With the potential for assets of all types to be…
T+1: Why Equities and FX Must Be in Perfect Harmony
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. Significant enhancements to market structure always result in technological innovation to better enable market participants to handle any changes. With the introduction of T+1 for US securities less than one year away, there are multiple elements that need to be considered. For European and Asian based market participants,…
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather…
IPC Systems and CryptoStruct Collaborate to Enhance Connexus Crypto Ecosystem with Enterprise-Grade Data
Communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions provider IPC Systems has partnered with CryptoStruct, a low latency cryptocurrency market data and trading solution vendor. The collaboration aims to deliver enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus Crypto ecosystem and further strengthens IPC’s crypto offering following the company’s recently-announced partnership with Kaiko. Connexus Crypto, launched in November 2021, is IPC’s…
LTX and BlackRock’s Aladdin Enhance Corporate Bond Trading Workflows Through Platform Integration
LTX, a subsidiary of global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has completed the latest phase of its multi-year partnership with Aladdin, Blackrock’s end-to-end investment management and operations platform for institutional investors. This phase focuses on enhancing corporate bond trading workflows and expanding LTX’s network through a platform integration. LTX’s Liquidity Cloud and actionable pre-trade Cloud…
The Six Key Technology Challenges Facing the Trading Stack
By Dave Carson, Head of Field Engineering at DiffusionData. The challenges I want to discuss are those that are affecting every trading participant today, including exchanges, data providers, banks and hedge funds. These include: Controlling the Firehose of Data With the rise of electronic trading, data volumes have spiralled. As technology continues to advance, so…
Intercontinental Exchange and KX Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Analytics for Financial Firms
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, has joined forces with KX, creator of the Data Timehouse and KDB.AI vector database, in order to utilise KX’s platform to offer real-time analytics on data from ICE’s Consolidated Feed and Consolidated History. The collaboration comes in response to the growing challenges…