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Smartkarma Challenges Traditional Investment Research Services
Smartkarma is on a mission to break the mould of traditional investment research services with an independent, cloud-based platform that curates research from independent providers and allows users to consume the research by paying a per user subscription. The platform operates dynamically to make all research available to all users in real time, but does…
TickSmith Gets Funding for Its TickVault Big Data Platform
It was encouraging this week to see VC interest in high-performance data management technology for financial markets, a segment often overlooked by fintech funds. TickSmith has announced a C$2 million investment from Illuminate Financial Management LLP, a venture capital firm with a specific focus on capital markets financial technology, giving it some clout as it…
EDM Council Data Management Benchmark Highlights Need to Improve Data Quality
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council’s 2017 Data Management Industry Benchmark Summary illustrates the highs and lows of data management across financial services firms. On the upside, firms have made progress in establishing data management programmes and implementing foundational governance. On the downside, data quality issues remain. The Council’s 2017 benchmarking study was carried out…
Privatar Plays into GDPR and plans Product and Geographic Expansion
Privitar plans to invest the $16 million it raised in a recent funding round in accelerating development of existing and new data privacy products, and extending its geographic footprint from Europe to the US and Asia-Pacific. The company was founded in 2014 and is now well placed to help data-driven organisations address data privacy concerns…
Best Practice for MiFID II and FRTB Data Analytics and Risk Modelling
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) raise the bar on data analytics, benchmarks and risk modelling, requiring firms to process huge volumes of data and tackle the challenges of data quality and consistency. For those that succeed, beneficial outcomes include improved transparency that can…
Calypso/List & Ullink/Enfusion Launches Herald Return of STP
More evidence this week of the growing importance of post-trade capabilities, as trading system provider Calypso Technology teams with electronic trading platform supplier List, and trading and connectivity specialist Ullink hooks up with order and execution management systems (OEMS) vendor Enfusion. Driven in part by regulatory requirements, among them MiFID II’s record-keeping obligations and the…
AIMA Offers Guidance to Best Execution Under MiFID II
For hedge funds and other investment managers with a thirst for information on how best execution will change under MiFID II, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has just released its MiFID2 Best Execution Guide. Best Execution under MiFID II differs from its predecessor’s provisions in two main ways. First, MiFID II requires investment firms…
Vela Adds to Object Trading to Growing Portfolio of Managed Services Components
In another burst of corporate activity, Vela Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Object Trading, a provider of Direct Market Access (DMA), pre-trade risk, and analytical applications. The deal follows hot on the heels of Vela’s recent acquisition of OptionsCity and adds to Vela’s portfolio of high-performance trading and market data offerings. In particular, Object…
Exegy Plans Integrated FPGA and Microprocessor Solutions
Exegy is integrating its field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware with Intel microprocessors to support low-latency services that can benefit from both technologies. The company has early engineering samples of boxes containing both FPGAs and microprocessors, and says release dates depend on Intel’s final integration schedule. Intel’s roadmap towards more tightly integrated FPGA and traditional…
QuantHouse Launches API Addressing MiFID II Needs
Trading solutions and market data services provider QuantHouse has launched an algorithmic trading stress-testing service, in API form, geared toward handling the increase in volume of market information and activity expected once MiFID II regulation takes effect in 2018, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer at the company. “The solution enables…