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Iason and Financial Machineries Add Equity Derivatives to GTRA Datafeed
Milan based consultancy Iason has added equity derivatives to the Global Trade Repository Analytics (GTRA) datafeed that it developed in collaboration with, and is marketed exclusively by, Financial Machineries UK. Commenting on the addition of equity derivatives to the consolidated data feed, Iason CEO Antonio Castagna says: “The equity derivatives data completes the set of…
J.P. Morgan and Citadel Adopt truePTS Post-Trade Derivatives Processing Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter truePTS is addressing the challenges of post-trade derivatives processing with its ‘no touch’ automated solution. Early adopters J.P. Morgan and Citadel are using the cloud-based platform as a lower-cost, digital alternative to legacy confirmation providers. The solution offers real-time synchronised connectivity between all participants in the post-trade environment through an…
Blackrock Veteran Joins Opus Nebula
Cloud-based end-to-end reporting service provider Opus Nebula has hired industry veteran Les Gosling as its new business development director and head of sales. Gosling joins Opus Nebula to accelerate the adoption of the firm’s ‘Reporting as a Service’ offering within the asset and wealth management community, initially within the UK, European, and US markets. With…
Dash Financial Technologies Hires Glenn Lesko as Chief Growth Officer
Dash Financial Technologies, a multi-asset trading technology and execution services provider, has appointed Glenn Lesko to the role of chief growth officer. He reports to CEO Peter Maragos and is responsible for driving the firm’s global revenue growth, both organically and inorganically. Lesko brings nearly 30 years of experience to Dash, most of it delivering…
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…