TradingTech Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
Adaptive’s Aeron Premium Technology Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the electronic trading technology solutions provider, has announced that its Aeron Premium technology is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This follows last October’s announcement of Adaptive’s partnership with Google Cloud, and the subsequent launch of Aeron Premium, which augments the popular Aeron open source platform with additional features, enterprise-grade…
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence Launch Integrated Solution for Primary Bond Markets
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have unveiled an integrated solution aiming to streamline operations in the syndicated primary bond markets. The solution offers mutual clients of TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed income execution management system (EMS), and S&P Global Market Intelligence’s InvestorAccess platform, a comprehensive and optimised workflow for primary markets. The system ensures portfolio managers…
Time for Better Tech as Firms Fail to Tackle Trade Fails
By Alistair Griffiths, Director of EMEA Sales, Baton Systems. The drive to innovate is a fundamental human characteristic. However, when I look at certain areas of global financial markets, it feels like we are going backwards, rather than progressing. According to a recent ECB report, settlement fail penalties cost T2S firms over €1.5billion in 2022…
Leveraging Technology to Modernise Trading Platforms
At the A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Briefing New York, the opening panel session was on the subject of “Modernising trading platforms”, where the discussion, moderated by Andrew Delaney, A-Team Group’s President & Chief Content Officer, centred around how to leverage interoperability, technology and outsourcing to differentiate and create a best-in-class trading platform. Panelists Nikhil Singhvi,…
LIBOR Transition – The Final Countdown, and Why Data is Key
By Jim Mahn, Global Head of Product, TraditionData. With the USD London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) scheduled to be phased out by June 30th this year, its remnants have the capacity to cause disruptions as derivative contracts based on LIBOR will most likely still exist. Allied with the present economic conditions and the market volatility…
Obstacles to Cloud Adoption
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and discussed what the real world currently looks like, in earlier blogs (here, here and here). But practitioners accept that the journey to cloud isn’t entirely an easy one. Even for committed capital markets protagonists, cloud…
Trading Technologies Unveils New TT FX Unit and Appoints Industry Veteran Tomo Tokuyama as Head
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), provider of technology platforms for global capital markets, has unveiled a new foreign exchange business unit, TT FX. The company made the announcement at the outset of the FIA International Derivatives Expo (IDX) in London, appointing Tomo Tokuyama, a seasoned FX trading expert, as the head of the newly established…
The Potential of Generative AI to Transform and Disrupt Trading
What are the applications and use cases for generative AI in trading? How can firms successfully integrate large language models into their trading workflows and address challenges around data quality, model interpretability and potential biases? What are the regulatory and ethical concerns around AI systems and how can these be alleviated so that firms can…
KX Releases PyKX Python Interface to kdb+ for Developer Community, Accelerates Data Science Workflows
KX, provider of the kdb+ time-series database, Data Timehouse, and KDB.AI vector database, has released a new version of PyKX, its Python first interface to kdb+, with a development-only licence. The release expands the reach of KX technology to the more than 10 million strong Python developer community. By giving Python developers the ability to…
Navigating the Future of Cloud-Based Market Data Delivery Solutions
Market data infrastructure’s transition to the cloud has gathered significant pace recently, driven by the growing recognition of benefits such as enhanced accessibility, flexible distribution, superior scalability, increased efficiency, and the potential for considerable cost reductions in both sourcing and managing data. As use cases for market data in the cloud grow, notably in areas…