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MDX Technology License Helps MarketAxess Users Get Liquidity
Real-time data distribution solution provider MDX Technology’s addition of MarketAxess as a provider of market data through its platform will help users attract liquidity from buy-side clients, according to Paul Watmough, CEO of MDX Technology (MDXT). “We can, from the same secure channels and mechanisms, attract liquidity back on to [MarketAxess] trading platform, so we…
Data Management Industry Weathers the Political Storm
Capital markets in the US and Europe are fraught with uncertainty following the election of President Trump in the US and the start of the Brexit process in the UK, but what material effects will these changes have on data management and will they present more opportunities than threats? The regulatory landscape in uncertain times…
How to Implement Data Quality Metrics that Deliver for the Business
Data quality metrics are essential to financial firms and can deliver significant operational benefits that are increasingly driven by emerging technologies such as machine learning. The business case for metrics, best approaches to implementation, and the potential of technology to improve both data quality and metrics were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar, Using…
Making Data Valuable Requires Quality and Structure
Building the ability to recognise the value in data and derive that value for the enterprise is a complicated proposition to include in data management models, according to experts who spoke at the Data Management Summit hosted by A-Team Group in New York earlier this month. First, firms should establish an “accountability structure through a…
Buy-Side Automation Of Trade Orders Rises
Metori Capital Management’s selection of QuantHouse’s QuantFACTORY algorithmic trading development framework represents the beginning of buy-side firms automating trade order execution based on a portfolio manager’s conceived strategy, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer of QuantHouse. While sell-side firms have already had automated trade execution based on pre-set strategies in place…
Do Traders Dream Of Hologram Interfaces? FlexTrade Thinks So.
Capitalising on Microsoft’s augmented reality HoloLens product, which was first made available to technology developers in March 2016, FlexTrade Systems, a trade execution and order management systems provider, has developed augmented reality trading capability for HoloLens, according to Andy Mahoney, business development director at FlexTrade UK. HoloLens is an altered version of a virtual reality…
GLEIF Eases LEI Acquisition as Identifier Passes the Half Million Mark
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has passed the half million mark, the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) is encouraging the creation of registration agents that will help firms get LEIs, and plans are on the board for mapping services that will link SWIFT BICS and Association of National Numbering Agency (ANNA) ISINs to the identifier. Will…
Technology Catches Up To Regulators’ Monitoring Demands
Conducting a simple real-time statistical analysis of financial market activity does not necessarily require “sophisticated AI or machine learning,” says Guy Warren, CEO of ITRS, an application performance management and big data analytics provider. The purpose of conducting such an analysis is to determine when a circuit breaker kicks in to catch and stop algorithmic…
Trax Sees UK Approval For MiFID II Reporting As First Step In Europe
The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) approval of the approved reporting mechanism (ARM) provided by market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services company Trax is the first domino in a line that its makers hope will run through European countries by the time MiFID II takes effect in January. As an ARM, Trax has…
MiFID II Effects On Order Handling and Reporting Requirements Emerge
The specifics of MiFID II compliance have become clearer with new guidance from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and increased understanding of best execution and transparency parts of the regulation among industry professionals. In ESMA’s recent question and answer statement on MiFID II, the authority specified what data must be published and reported…