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Carlos Lopez Lansdowne Joins Exegy as Sales director Europe and Asia
Industry veteran Carlos Lopez Lansdowne has joined financial market data solutions provider Exegy as its sales director for Europe and Asia. He will support Exegy’s drive to prepare European clients for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) compliance and to deploy solutions in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Based in London, Lansdowne will report directly…
Ultimate Trading Machine Proposes Record Tick-To-Trade Speed
Traders are being offered top speed tick-to-trade performance using a server engine from Solarflare, LDA Technologies and Penguin Computing. The server, nicknamed the Ultimate Trading Machine (UTM), can achieve a 98 nanosecond tick-to-trade time – the delay between receiving a market tick showing an opportunity to an algorithm, and sending the buy/sell order. The UTM…
RegTech Solutions Show Potential to Make Compliance Processes More Efficient
With just a few weeks to go before A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we caught up with Tammy Eisenberg, Director, Investment Management Risk & Compliance at BNY Mellon, to talk about her views on regtech and the challenges it could address. At the event, Eisenberg will…
Enyx Integrates Xilinx FPGA Technology to Power nxFeed
Enyx has increased the performance of its nxFeed solution on the back of a new release of its FPB2 platform that is powered by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ (VUS+) field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. The FPB2 platform, developed by Bittware, uses the Xilinx VUS+ FPGA to offer a four-times larger matrix than Enyx’s previous platform,…
Wall Street Horizon Extends Corporate Events Intelligence with EventBreaks
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate events intelligence, has introduced EventBreaks, a service that alerts institutional investors to changes in corporate events. The service covers each of the 40-plus event types the company tracks and provides granular information around how events move, alerting users to the time, date and substance of…
FIX Trading Community Releases Final Guidance on Best Execution Reporting
The FIX Trading Community has issued the final release of its Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) 27 and 28. The document provides guidance on how to populate reports required under RTS 27 and 28 with appropriate data in a…
Lucera Partners BSO to Extend Global FX Trading Reach
Market infrastructure provider Lucera has expanded its global FX trading reach with Chicago to New York to London to Tokyo connectivity provided by low-latency network specialist BSO. The agreement between Lucera and BSO combines the former’s on-demand Software Defined Network (SDN) with the latter’s ultra low-latency circuit, enabling electronic traders to seek new sources of…
John Randles Takes the Lead at Siren
After leaving the post of CEO at Bloomberg PolarLake in August 2017, John Randles has emerged as CEO of Siren, a Dublin-based start-up dedicated to the development of a data intelligence platform that combines search, business intelligence, graphic and knowledge representation to advance how financial services firms, among others, address complex questions. The company’s platform…
ABN Amro Clearing Bank Distributes Fidessa Derivatives EMS
ABN Amro Clearing Bank has extended its relationship with Fidessa to allow the clearer to distribute the software vendor’s derivatives execution management system (EMS). This follows ABN Amro’s 2016 harmonisation of its global multi-asset market access by replacing numerous vendor and in-house systems with Fidessa’s XTP technology, and means the clearer can now present clients…
RJO’Brien’s Bradley Giemza Discusses Regulation, RegTech and Cool Start-Ups
A-Team Group’s hugely successful RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London is on its way to New York, where keynote speakers will include Bradley Giemza, chief risk officer at RJO’Brien. Ahead of the event on Thursday November 16, 2017, we caught up with Giemza to find out his views on RegTech and its potential. Q:…