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TORA Delivers AI Tool Designed to Help Traders Meet MiFID II Best Execution
Investment solutions supplier TORA has developed a pre-trade analytics solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help trading firms meet the best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). TORA is offering the tool as part of its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), enabling traders to monitor costs across…
Dessa Glasser Joins Financial Risk Group
Dessa Glasser has joined Financial Risk Group (FRG) as a principal consultant in New York. Her responsibilities include developing risk management and data solutions for the company’s global client base, drawing on 25 years of experience designing and implementing innovative solutions in risk, data, and analytics across financial and non-financial institutions. Glasser joins FRG from…
Thomson Reuters Adds Model Risk Management to Connected Risk Platform
Thomson Reuters is building out its Connected Risk platform with the addition of a Model Risk Management (MRM) solution that allows financial institutions to demonstrate real-time understanding of their model risk landscape and report on model governance status and sign-offs from a single platform source. The solution provides risk professionals with a holistic understanding of…
QuantHouse API Ecosystem Opens Access to Sun Trading SI Platform
Trading technology provider QuantHouse is offering direct access to Sun Trading’s Systematic Internaliser (SI) platform through its qh API Ecosystem, which is driven by the company’s QuantFEED and QuantLINK services, and provides access to Sun Trading market data and order entry feeds, as well as SI liquidity. The aim is to help qh API Ecosystem…
Quant Insight Adds Macro Research to RSRCHX Platform
Quant Insight (QI) has made its research available on the RSRCHX platform, a purpose-built aggregator and marketplace for institutional research that allows portfolio managers to buy reports in compliance with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) research rules. QI came to market in January 2017 and offers macro research that provides quantitative analysis…
GoldenSource Releases Nexus as a Hosted Service
GoldenSource has released the latest version of its Nexus data management platform, giving buy-side firms a single, fully managed source for market and reference data. The platform is designed to help asset managers deal with mounting trade transaction and reporting pressures ahead of the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) on…
Two Months to MiFID II: Are Financial Institutions at Risk of Eating Their Data Soup with a Fork?
By: Roy Kirby, senior product manager, SIX Financial Information Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is just around the corner, and one issue that may have escaped firms’ attention is the practical consideration of how to exchange data with other market players. Come January, manufacturers will be faced with the challenge of working…
Itiviti-ULLINK Combo Sets Sights on Trading Tech Market Leader Fidessa
The planned merger of Nordic front-office trading systems provider Itiviti with rival French supplier ULLINK is aimed at creating a global full-service trading powerhouse with a remit to take on market leader Fidessa. The merger of equals – announced today – expects to meld Itiviti’s trading and market-making capabilities with the equities and listed derivatives…
BNP Paribas Selects Fenergo for Compliance and Optimum Customer Experience
BNP Paribas has selected Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) solution as part of a global transformation project that aims to deliver a single view of clients across all jurisdictions and enable the bank to comply efficiently with local and global regulatory rules, and deliver optimum customer experience. Bernard Gavgani, global head of CIB IT and…
Sponsored Blog: Ullink’s Richard Bentley Discusses the Shifting Balance Between High-Touch and Low-Touch Trading Technology
As global trading markets continue to evolve, moving from high-touch to low-touch trading solutions and beginning to benefit from hybrid products, we caught up with Ullink chief product officer, Richard Bentley, to talk about his take on market direction, the rise of managed services, and the products firms need to implement to keep pace with…