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Pico Launches Corvil Cloud Analytics
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics provider, has expanded its flagship monitoring platform into the cloud with the launch of Corvil Cloud Analytics. Pico’s Corvil Analytics is already one of the most widely used platforms for extracting and correlating performance intelligence from networked environments, typically deployed by banks, exchanges, electronic market makers, quantitative…
Etrading Software Secures Significant Investment from LDC
LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has made a multi-million pound investment in Etrading Software, the London-based capital markets technology company specialising in the provision of market and reference data. LDC’s investment, the first external funding for Etrading Software, will enable the company to continue growing its range of technology-enabled services and…
Microsoft and LSEG Launch 10-Year Strategic Partnership as Microsoft Takes 4% Equity Stake in LSEG
Microsoft and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) have entered into a 10-year strategic partnership, under which LSEG’s data infrastructure will be architected using the Microsoft Cloud and the two companies will jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. Microsoft has also agreed to purchase shares in LSEG that would result in Microsoft…
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems Collaborate to Deliver Collateral Optimisation Solution
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems, a post-trade processing provider that uses distributed ledger technology (DLT), have announced a collaboration to integrate Baton’s Core-Collateral solution into BNY Mellon’s collateral management platform. This will enable mutual clients to optimise portfolio allocations and accelerate the mobilisation of cash and securities collateral across both uncleared and cleared margin obligations…
Preparing for DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act
On 28th November 2022, the European Council formally adopted the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), new legislation designed to strengthen the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms. Originally proposed in September 2020 as part of a larger European digital finance package, DORA’s recent adoption by the EC is…
How Automation is Impacting Asset Manager Workflows
Leon Brown, Account Manager at BidFX, explains why asset managers are increasingly looking at automation for enhanced productivity, as opposed to cutting headcount. Popular opinion now agrees that automation is not a nefarious ploy to reduce staff headcount, but an intelligent business decision designed to increase efficiency and enhance productivity. In the early days of sell-side…
Symphony Acquires Natural Language Processing Platform Amenity Analytics
Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, has acquired natural language processing (NLP) data analytics solution vendor Amenity Analytics, for an amount estimated at tens of millions of dollars, although terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Amenity specializes in extracting and delivering actionable insights – from unstructured content types including earnings call transcripts,…
EFAMA Stresses the Need for a Real-Time Consolidated Tape in Europe
As proposals for a consolidated tape (CT) for equities and bonds in Europe continue to be debated, industry body EFAMA (European Fund and Asset Management Association) has released a statement calling for a real-time CT for equities, to include both pre- and post-trade data. The creation of a CT was originally proposed in MiFID II…
InstrumentiX and FMADIO Launch 100G Combined Capture and Analytics Platform
InstrumentiX, the performance monitoring and analytics solutions provider, and FMADIO, the packet capture appliance vendor, have together released a new 100G capture and analytics platform, the x-100. The x-100 was developed in response to the exponential increase in trading-related data volumes in recent years, which has driven a demand for high-performance capture and analytics to…
Liquidity Risk Spotlight: Increased Regulatory Scrutiny is Our Biggest Threat
Damian Handzy, Managing Director for Performance, Risk and Analytics at Confluence. Inflation and interest rate spikes, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a generation, can cause serious market dislocations and liquidity crunches. Regulators around the world have taken notice. The increasing pressure of regulatory requirements around liquidity risk demands a more precise and…