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QuantHouse Adds Trade and Book Updates Synchronisation Feature to Data Feeds
QuantHouse has responded to client requirements with a trade and book updates synchronisation feature that allows trades and book updates to be reconciled when consuming data in real time, or when working with historical data. The feature is available on QuantHouse’s QuantFEED and ConsolidatedFEED, and is focused on feeds from derivatives exchanges. It is currently…
Fidessa Adds Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program
Fidessa has added Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program, helping users of its access architecture and smart order routing capabilities meet the liquidity challenges presented by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Tower uses a diverse set of trading strategies across a broad range of asset classes to provide liquidity…
IHS Markit Extends Derivatives Services Through Acquisition of DeriveXperts
IHS Markit plans to extend its derivatives data and valuations business following the acquisition of DeriveXperts, a provider of valuation services for OTC derivatives and other complex financial securities. Paris headquartered DeriveXperts specialises in daily and monthly computations of hard-to-value assets, such as equity derivatives, FX derivatives, interest rate derivatives and structured notes. IHS Markit…
Kingland Upgrades Fourth Generation Enterprise Software Platform
Kingland continues to develop the fourth-generation enterprise software platform it brought to market last year with the delivery of zero downtime deployment of platform components, improved performance, availability and security of microservices transactions, and refined artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities used to extract data from PDF documents. The introduction of the…
Harmonising Data Can Deliver Value, But There Are Caveats
Harmonising data can help firms extract value, but success pivots on issues including the identification of business needs, effective data governance and a focus on data quality. The potential of a harmonised approach to building a strong data management foundation and reporting capability was discussed at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit during a panel…
AlgoTrader Names Richard Chmiel as Chief Operating Officer
AlgoTrader has hired Richard Chmiel as chief operating officer with a remit to grow US business and manage the algo trading solution company’s global sales, business development, client success and marketing. A veteran of the financial services industry, Chmiel’s career includes periods as a senior executive at Bloomberg, global head of sales and marketing at…
Estates and Infrastructure Exchange Selects Aquis Technologies Solutions
The Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIE) has selected Aquis Technologies, a division of Aquis Exchange, to supply solutions and services including a trading front end, the Aquis matching engine (AME), the Aquis market surveillance (AMS) solution, including a first-line surveillance service, as well as market operations and post-trade tools and services. The matching engine and…
Trading Technologies Begins Build of Trading Ecosystem
Trading Technologies (TT) has been developing expertise for 25 years and says the next 25 will be about adding value for customers based on its intent to build an ecosystem encompassing trading applications, infrastructure and data. TT won’t pull back from its traditional business in trading screens, but it is pushing on to extend its…
KAS BANK Selects AIM Software to Support Digital Transformation
KAS BANK has licensed three modules of AIM Software’s GAIN business application suite as part of a digital transformation designed to the make the bank more agile and competitive. The GAIN solutions will be used to underpin data management and support the bank’s strategic focus on becoming more data driven and improving operations by streamlining…
Pontus Vision Offers Open Source GDPR Solution with GCHQ Style Security
If you are still looking for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance solution, London based regtech Pontus Vision may be able to help you with its open source, secure software that allows firms to search for any given customer and quickly access all of the data the business holds about them in a single…