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A-Team Group Reveals Winners of 2018 Intelligent Trading Technology Awards

The winners of this year’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology (ITT) Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best cloud-based trading environment to best trading analytics platform and best consolidated market data feed. Consultancy categories covered best specialist trading technology consultancy and best specialist market data consultancy. A…

Data Management for Compliance, Business Performance and Reduced Costs

Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, business performance is crucial, and pressure on costs is continual. So, how can you source and manage data once for both compliance and performance, and how can you contain costs? These questions and more were addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinarhosted by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood and joined by Dessa Glasser,…

ARQA Technologies Partners with QuantHouse for European Expansion

By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Russian order management system (OMS) provider ARQA Technologies is leveraging QuantHouse’s data centre and market data infrastructure to launch its hosted trading solutions in Continental European financial markets. Under the initiative, which will be hosted at QuantHouse’s London data centre, ARQA will use an adaptor for QuantHouse’s QuantFEED global market…

FCA Reiterates Need for LEIs in Run Up to July 3 Deadline

The UK regulator has reminded firms and counterparties within the scope of MiFID II to ensure they meet the regulation’s Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) requirement before the extended deadline of July 3, 2018. “After July 3 firms will be required to gather (and be in a position to report) their clients’ LEIs before they trade…

Arkéa IS Selects NeoXam Tracker 3 to Improve Portfolio Management

Arkéa Investment Services (Arkéa IS), the asset management and private banking arm of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, has selected NeoXam Tracker 3 as a front-to-middle office portfolio management system for its affiliates Federal Finance Gestion and Schelcher Prince Gestion. NeoXam Tracker 3 will bring together Arkéa IS’s activities on a single platform, simplifying harmonisation of its…

Traders Turn to the Dark Side as MiFID II Spotlights Liquidity

A report by Liquidnet highlights the impact of MiFID II on trading behaviour in Europe, including a rise in large-in-scale (LIS) block trading in dark pools, periodic auctions and systematic internaliser (SI) volumes, as traders hunt for liquidity. The ‘Buy-Side Perspectives Survey: Post MiFID II’ is based on interviews with 58 heads of trading and…

Key Efficiency Drivers for Evolving Fixed Income Markets

By: David Murray, Marketing and Chief Business Development Officer, Corvil Today’s fixed income markets are in transition, with changing roles of participants, an evolving regulatory climate, increased market fragmentation, accelerating electronification, a shift from active to passive investing, and macroeconomic factors all exerting influence. Unlike many other markets, fixed income markets are neither centralised and…

AML – More Focus in 2018 for the FCA and Firms

By Philip Naughton, Head of UK Compliance, Cordium The regulatory landscape for anti-money laundering (AML) is continuing to evolve, and for financial institutions struggling under an increasingly heavy regulatory burden, we at Data Management Review felt that this article from financial services tech consultancy Cordium was of particular interest in highlighting the upcoming AML upgrades…

Horizon Software sets Development Plans Following Capzanine Investment

Horizon Software is planning to develop its electronic trading platform and build geographical presence on the back of investment from European private equity firm Capzanine. The equity firm has taken a majority stake in the company alongside shareholder Sylvain Thieullent, CEO at Horizon, and the management team. Thieullent says the investment will help Horizon confirm…

TTG Capital Selects Trading Technologies’ Futures Platform

London based global proprietary trading group TTG Capital (TTG) has selected Trading Technologies’ (TT) futures trading platform to scale its business and infrastructure technology through access to TT features and technology including Autospreader, ADL, charting, functionality for options trading and analytics, and connectivity to all TT supported markets through TT’s global network of colocated data…