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TMX Group Agrees to Acquire Wall Street Horizon
TMX Group, the Toronto-based market operator and data and an analytics provider, has agreed to acquire Boston-based Wall Street Horizon (WSH), a corporate event data provider. The acquisition will extend the global reach of TMX Datalinx’s listed company corporate action and event data offering. “We’ve done well with the distribution of our core content, and…
LightPoint Launches LightPoint 360 ‘Hedge Fund in a Box’ Solution
LightPoint Financial Technology, the SaaS-based trading solutions provider, has launched LightPoint 360, a new all-in-one solution that targets new launch hedge funds, combining LightPoint’s existing SaaS-based trading, order management, portfolio management, and accounting product with Microsoft 365. The new ‘hedge fund in a box’ offering also comes with a comprehensive set of outsourced operational and…
Liquidnet Electronifies Bond Issuance Workflow with Live Deals
Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has achieved the next stage of its electronification of the new bond issuance process, by successfully transmitting live buy-side orders in from Order and Execution Management Systems to participating syndicate banks. The electronic workflow follows the initial testing that Liquidnet Primary Markets conducted earlier this year in collaboration with Invesco…
IEX Group Launches cloudSwXtch, Bringing Multicast to Cloud Networks
IEX Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary swXtch.io LLC, has announced the commercial launch of cloudSwXtch, a cloud-native software product that aims to bring bare-metal performance capability to the major cloud networks. cloudSwXtch is a virtual overlay network that adds high-performance networking to cloud or edge deployments with no code changes to existing applications. The product…
BMLL Secures $26m Series B Investment to Fuel Further Growth
BMLL, the independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, has secured a Series B investment of USD 26 million. The funding round was led by Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital’s Growth Fund, and supported by ACF Investors and other new and existing investors. BMLL provides…
Colt Completes Proof of Concept for Multicast Data in the Cloud
In a further indication of the industry’s interest in finding ways to utilise the cloud for distribution of market data, connectivity and colocation provider Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of a cloud colocation Proof of Concept (PoC), demonstrating the viability of hosting and distributing multicast data in the cloud. According to the…
ION Launches Post Trade Solution, XTP Spark
ION, the trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions vendor, has launched XTP Spark, a trade processing solution for cleared derivatives. Using the same technology as ION’s flagship XTP solution, XTP Spark is aimed squarely at smaller firms such as regional banks and brokers, commodity trading firms and niche clearers who require similar back-office functionality,…
Numis Deploys Glue42 to Integrate Sales & Trading Desktop Apps
Numis, the independent investment bank, has deployed software and services from desktop integration specialist Glue42, to enable sales and trading teams to integrate and synchronise the applications they use on their desktops, both in the office and whilst working from home. The Glue42 technology will provide Numis staff with seamless access to market intelligence, quotes,?pricing,…
Adaptive Partners with Google Cloud to Reinforce Cloud Capabilities for Clients
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the technology solutions provider that builds and operates bespoke trading systems for its clients, has entered into a partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership will enable Adaptive to further leverage Google Cloud’s processing power and analytical capabilities, and will also bolster resilience for services built on Google Cloud. The partnership follows…
3d innovations Partners with BST to Upgrade Abacus Market Data Inventory
3d innovations (3di), the data management product and services company, has partnered with Swiss-based fintech Banking Software Training AG (BST), to launch a new version of its Abacus Market Data inventory, which will be based on BST’s FinOffice componentry. “Abacus, which has been around for a number of years, was starting to get a bit…