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The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
IPC and RANsquawk Collaborate on Real-Time Audio and Text News Feed
Communications and network solutions provider IPC is collaborating with RANsquawk, a supplier of market information, to offer a real-time audio and text news feed to users of IPC’s Unigy 360 cloud-based software-as-a-service communications and workflow solution. The aim of the collaboration is to help traders using Unigy 360 make better decisions. Users can consume RANsquawk’s…
The CAT Makes Progress with Selection of Exegy to Provide Timestamp Data
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has been a long time in the making, but progress has been made recently with the selection of Exegy’s packet capture service to provide trade timestamps to the CAT, and a move by the FIX trading community to plan a FIX CAT working group to help firms with implementation….
Blackstone Closes Deal to Take 55% Stake in Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business
Nearly nine months after Thomson Reuters signed a definitive agreement with Blackstone that would give the private equity firm a 55% stake and Thomson Reuters a 45% stake in the company’s financial and risk business, the deal is closed and the business rebranded as Refinitiv. With backing from Blackstone, Refinitiv plans to invest in a…
Thomson Reuters’ Brennan Carley Presents the Case for Cloud Adoption
Cloud technology has attracted champions and cynics for many years, but times are changing as financial firms realise the benefits of both public and private cloud environments in terms of cost savings, operational gains and business agility. Brennan Carley, global head of enterprise at Thomson Reuters, presented a compelling keynote on why trusted data belongs in the…
Gibraltar Stock Exchange’s Targ Patience Discusses the Role of Regtech in Fighting Financial Crime
Fighting financial crime is imperative and is best achieved by having impenetrable client onboarding, anti-money laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) processes in place. At some firms, first generation systems are struggling to cope with the volume of data that needs to be processed quickly and efficiently to ensure accurate entity data and effective…
Meet the Speakers: Stephane Malrait Presents Opening Keynote at A-Team Group RegTech Summit
A-Team Group’s second annual RegTech Summit will be hosted in London next week, but before the industry converges at the Guoman Tower Hotel for the event on October 4,we would like to introduce you to Stephane Malrait, global head of market structure and innovation in financial markets at ING. Malrait will present the summit’s opening keynote discussing…
QuantHouse and Enyx Offer FPGA Accelerated Market Data Service in the Hong Kong Exchange Data Centre
QuantHouse (QH) has added ultra-low latency FPGA-based market data specialist Enyx to its API ecosystem to offer trading firms an FPGA accelerated end-to-end market data service. The solution will initially be rolled out in the Hong Kong Exchange data centre (HKEX). To reduce the cost of FPGA implementation and time to market, Enyx and QH…
BSO and Hoptroff Develop Time-as-a-Service Solution to Support Regulatory Compliance
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Global network provider BSO and time synchronisation specialist Hoptroff London have partnered to create a fully traceable and accurate Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution. Hoptroff’s Global Timing Network and AI driven Time-Suite software will be combined with BSO’s global low-latency network to offer a time synchronisation tool that gives firms a timestamp…
How to Get Data Lineage Right for Regulatory Compliance and Business Value
Data lineage is critical to getting regulatory compliance right and key to data transparency and ownership for the business. It is also a game changer when it comes to data quality. But how can you implement a successful data lineage programme that will deliver these rewards on an ongoing and cost-effective basis? This question and…