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ING Bank Improves Communication with MDXT Data Sharing Solution
MDX Technology (MDXT), a market data connectivity specialist and provider of an enterprise data sharing solution, has signed up ING Bank as its twelfth European customer and is building out its business in the US and Asia ahead of a move into South America. ING Bank selected MDXT’s Connect enterprise data sharing solution to improve…
Fidessa Responds to Demand for a Consolidated Trading Platform
Fidessa has responded to ongoing client demand for consolidated trading platforms that reduce total cost of ownership and increase efficiency with the addition of US Treasuries to its global futures and options platform, and connectivity to BrokerTec and Nasdaq OMX eSpeed. The addition of US Treasuries to the derivatives platform takes the company into fixed…
Charles River Shrink Wraps Compliance Solution to Offer Compliance as a Service
Charles River has packaged the compliance module of its Investment Management Solution to offer Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) to asset managers seeking economic and efficient start-of-day portfolio compliance. The service is cloud based and integrates software, data and advisory services that include writing and maintaining compliance system rules. It is designed to help small and medium-sized firms…
Markit Integrates Datasets to Deliver Enhanced iNAV for ETPs
Markit has integrated its fixed income evaluated pricing and fair value data services with exchange traded fund data to deliver an enhanced intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange traded products (ETPs). The service is available immediately and is designed to improve transparency around ETP pricing. The company has offered an iNAV service for…
Raiffeisen Bank Implements Asset Control Data Management Platform
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is in the process of implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform with a view to centralising data management for end-of-day valuations and market risk calculations across its operations in Europe and Asia. The bank selected Asset Control after an evaluation of competitive solutions and a successful proof of concept….
Markit Develops Managed Services With CTI Acquisition
Markit’s agreement to acquire tax compliance and reporting services specialist Compliance Technologies International (CTI) will add a tax component to the company’s managed regulatory reporting services that already include the Counterparty Manager platform and the recently introduced Markit | Genpact Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Services. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed and the transaction…
Options Builds Out Velocity Platform with Velocimetrics Real-Time Performance Analytics
Options continues to build out its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), ultra-low latency electronic trading platform with the addition of Velocimetrics’ real-time monitoring and performance analysis solution. The companies have partnered to roll out the Velocimetrics software at Velocity colocation sites around the world, starting in the US with deployments in New Jersey. Options recently added the…
Opinion: Uniting Entity Data – the Missed Opportunity
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director, EMEA & Asia, Goldensource The industry’s drive to understand and reduce systemic risk has created fresh challenges around instrument and entity data that put technology under a whole new light. However, in a post-2008 crisis landscape dominated by regulatory reform, compliance is only part of the issue. If firms can…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: With Decision Latency, Performance Focus Turns Inward, and Parallel
As efforts to reduce data transmission latency begin to hit the speed of light barrier (the wireless networks being rolled out are pretty much the end game), attention is turning away from the speed of trade execution and towards the speed of trade construction and optimisation – decision latency as some call it. Addressing decision…
Enyx-Options Partnership Aims to Yield High Performance at Reasonable Cost
Hardware-accelerated trading solutions provider Enyx has partnered with Options to offer its nxFeed market data distribution system through the Options Velocity platform. The combined solution aims to offer the benefits of FPGA-based data delivery at a lower cost point via a managed service business model. The solution enables users to access, via a single API,…