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Second Chance at Solvency II Shows Why We’re All in this Together
By Ashley Smith, senior vice president of business development, Silverfinch Who doesn’t wish for a chance to have a second shot at something? How often do we muse about rerunning the botched job interview, or the exam we failed? For insurers and asset managers the rerun is not going to be a dream because, this…
IBOR Systems Will Break Firms’ Internal Information Barriers
Continued increased interest in Investment Book of Record (IBOR) systems will continue to shape front-office trading operations and alpha generation in 2017, predicts Joshua Satten, head of the fintech practice at Sapient Global Markets, the Boston-based business technology and consulting provider. “IBOR is bringing together front, middle and back office data,” he said. “As we…
Architecture, Performance Proved Key to Deutsche Börse Use of TBricks
Deutsche Börse’s implementation of the Tbricks derivatives pricing and alerting platform offered by Itiviti, a Stockholm-based capital markets technology provider, harnesses the platform’s architecture and performance strengths, said Rickard Davidsson, vice president of sales, EMEA, at Itiviti. “TBricks uses out-of-the-box functionality for its overall set-up — for pricing, volatility management, alerting, and standard monitoring functionality…
MiFID II Preparation Challenges Emerge
For trading operations, MiFID II still appears to be a moving target in terms of transparency and reporting requirements, according to data and regulation experts from industry service providers. Compliance with MiFID II is requiring significant technology resources, the experts said, speaking during the general meeting of FISD in New York on December 15. “In…
Avelacom Expansion Speeds Relays To Asia
Moscow-based network service provider Avelacom expansion of its optical fiber network, which reduces latency on its London to Moscow route, will have a ripple effect of decreasing the latency for trading between the UK and Asia, because Moscow acts as a hub for transmitting to Hong Kong, Tokyo and South Asia markets, according to Alina…
TransFICC Confirms First 5 Venues For Spring Launch
London-based electronic trading technology company TransFICC, which serves fixed-income and derivatives markets, plans a spring 2017 launch of its application programming interface (API) service to facilitate connectivity with trading venues. The service can connect to multiple venues to execute orders without separate submissions (for users with software to enable this method of sending orders through…
The Missing Piece of the Data Governance Puzzle
The benefits firms expect to gain from effective data governance include higher quality data, a reduction in duplicate processing and reduced costs, but reaching these gains is not always easy as firms report a shortage of technical capability around data governance, problems with legacy systems, and a lack of management buy-in and budget. In terms…
NovaSparks Adds Markets To Ticker Product
Paris-based market data company NovaSparks, which offers field programmable gate array (FPGA) services, has added 10 markets to its NovaTick ticker plant product. The additions bring NovaSparks total coverage in NovaTick to a total of over 50 markets. The new markets include the Osaka Securities Exchange, Chi-X Japan and SBI JapanNext in Japan; the Australian…
Fonetic Upgrades Automatic Trade Reconstruction Technology
Fonetic has extended its automatic trade reconstruction (ATR) solution to give compliance and surveillance officers more features and functionality to support the investigation of trades, detection of fraud and the ability to export an ATR timeline as a data file to a regulator. The company suggests the solution is well suited to the trade reconstruction…
Bloomberg Tradebook Launches Customizable Algorithm
Bloomberg Tradebook, the global agency brokerage business, has launched a Relative Benchmark Trading Algorithm on its PAIR cross-asset trading platform. The added algorithm gives Tradebook users the ability to customize how they trade securities relative to benchmarks they choose, according to Michael Baradas, cross-asset product manager at Bloomberg Tradebook. “Active investors are trying to find…