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Sapient Global Markets Details the Challenges and Opportunities of Trading on Swap Execution Facilities
As the US swaps market began the transition from telephone trading to electronic trading on swap execution facilities (SEFs) this week, a number of issues hung in the balance, including which of the SEFs that have registered with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will be successful, how vendors can support firms trading on…
Lucera Details On-Demand Infrastructure for Electronic Trading
Lucera, a spin off from Cantor Fitzgerald, brings its on-demand, high-performance infrastructure for electronic trading to market today, offering trading firms reduced time to market, lower capital expenditure, on-demand scalability and reduced operational risk. The company and platform emerged from Cantor Fitzgerald in April 2013, after the financial services firm released a group of employees…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: COREP/FINREP – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Last week’s Regulatory Update seminar, hosted by Lombard Risk, was an eye-opener for anyone who thought their work was done after the past year’s huge efforts on COREP. In particular, the session focused on the challenges to come with respect to reporting under CRD IV, FINREP and incoming Asset Encumbrance (AE) rules. Indeed, such is…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Putting it All Together
After several months of shoe-leather and elbow grease, the agenda for our March 6 Data Management Summit at London’s America Square conference centre is snapping into place. Our rapidly changing marketplace is yielding much food for thought, and plenty of fodder for some good debates. Helping us set the scene at the kickoff this time…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: A New Summit Takes Shape
A week after I last chimed in about our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on March 4 – to be reprised in New York on May 13 – our programme is taking shape. What we’ve pulled together is yet another step in our journey from Low Latency infrastructures into the very brave new world of…
TMX Group Switches to Ullink for Pre-Trade Risk Management
TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, is planning to migrate equity trading customers using Mantara pre-trade risk management and connectivity tools to Ullink solutions. TMX has maintained Mantara products since the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October last year, but will cease to do so once it is up and running…
Managed Services in the Mainstream – It’s Not Just About Cost Anymore
Are managed services coming of age as providers of front-office trading capabilities? Certainly some of the trends we are seeing suggest they are. It was not so long ago when investment banks and other sell-side trading rooms were able to push the managed services debate into the long-grass, citing control, security and competitive advantage as…
OptionsCity Extends Hosting of Metro and Freeway Trading Platforms to London
OptionsCity has extended the hosting of its Metro electronic trading and market making platform and Freeway multi-asset trading engine to London, taking up residence in both the Interxion data centre in Brick Lane, East London and the NYSE data centre in Basildon, east of London. The company’s arrival in London at the end of last…
Options Adds Quincy Extreme Data as it Builds Out Pipe Velocity Platform
Options, a provider of trading infrastructure-as-a-service, has partnered Quincy Data to offer its customers trading at Equinix NY4 and the CME access to the Quincy Extreme Data ultra low latency market data service. The addition of Quincy Extreme Data to Options’ Pipe Velocity electronic trading infrastructure solution was driven by a request from an investment…
Bank Vontobel Selects smartTrade Platform for Foreign Exchange Trading
Bank Vontobel has selected smartTrade Technologies’ hosted LiquidityFX platform to support a new foreign exchange service for spot, forwards and swaps trading. The bank opted for the LiquidityFX solution ahead of other options on the basis of its rich functionality and fast time to market. Urs Bernegger, head of RM and advisory FX/PM at Bank…