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RCM-X Implements OneTick TCA to Offer Optimised Algo Execution
RCM-X, the trading technology subsidiary of investment firm RCM Alternatives, has gone live with OneMarketData’s OneTick Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) platform to offer clients an enhanced execution algorithm suite in global futures markets. The OneTick TCA solution offers traders flexibility and customisable analysis to show orders and fill performance against a variety of price benchmarks…
HPR Expands Market Access Platform to Hong Kong Stock Connects
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Hyannis Port Research (HPR), a Boston-based provider of advanced capital markets infrastructure technologies, has expanded its market access platform to include support for the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connects. The HPR platform includes the company’s pre-trade risk products for low latency market access and risk management, Riskbot and…
Money.Net Joins OpenFin ecosystem
Money.Net, a web-based platform for financial data, news and analysis, has selected OpenFin technology to deploy and deliver its software to global financial institutions. The company has also become a member of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a non-profit foundation promoting open innovation in financial services, and OpenFin’s Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium…
Archax Introduces Digital Asset Exchange for Institutional Investors
Archax has introduced an institutional-grade digital asset exchange targeted at the professional investment community. The venture is based in London, led by former hedge fund partner Graham Rodford, and advised by former chief strategy officer at the London Stock Exchange Group David Lester. The exchange aims to provide digital asset trading, including crypto currencies, to…
Act Now to Be Ready for Fundamental New Capital Rules
By Tim Lind, Managing Director at DTCC Data Services A decade on since the global financial crisis, large swathes of financial regulation aimed at addressing the weaknesses exposed during that time have come into force. Among many lessons learned in terms of market risk, there were two specific gaps that regulators wanted to address: ensure…
DSB Sets Up Change and Challenge Processes for OTC Derivative ISINs
The Data Service Bureau (DSB) that issues ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II has set up change and challenge processes. The change request addresses issues with existing ISINs or with the product definition templates supplied by the DSB for the creation of OTC derivative ISINs. The challenge process allows users to challenge existing ISINs, for…
MahiFX Offers FX Trade Analysis and Visualisation Tool MFX Echo
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter MahiFX, the institutional and retail foreign exchange (FX) technology services firm, has introduced MFX Echo, a white-label trade analysis, liquidity visualisation and price explainer tool that allows eFX traders to evaluate markets and analyse performance during and post execution. Following the success of MFX Compass, a pricing and risk management…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
Intelligent Trading Summit Tracks Developments in Best Execution
Best execution, smart order routing and finding liquidity were under the spotlight during a panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. So too, was the SEC’s ‘maker taker’ pilot designed to generate data that will provide the Commission and market participants with information to facilitate an informed, data driven discussion about…
State Street: The Journey Towards Internal Efficiency
State Street managing director Nathaniel Rand led A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York with a keynote that opened a window onto the firm’s technology investment strategy, including core goals, key stages and crucial trends in the journey towards an evolved and efficient technology infrastructure. Over the past few years, State Street, one…