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How to Control Access to Single Dealer Portals and Other Market Services
Against the backdrop of rapid adoption of electronic trading across cash asset classes that aren’t typically traded on exchanges, financial institutions are struggling to control access to external trading portals and platforms, and other market services. This phenomenon is presenting a particular challenge in fixed income and foreign exchange markets, where single dealer portals that allow…
Breaking the Dominance of the 4pm Fix: Alternative Approaches to FX Benchmarks
Introduction Since the mid-1990’s, foreign exchange (FX) benchmarks have played a crucial role in providing standardised FX valuation points, which are used for a wide variety of purposes by financial markets participants across the industry. Over the last decade however, particularly in the wake of the Libor scandal of 2012 and the FX fixing scandal…
Trading Technologies Acquires AxeTrading, Adding Fixed Income to Multi-Asset Capabilities
Trading Technologies (TT), the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions provider, has acquired London-based AxeTrading, a global provider of fixed income trading solutions. The acquisition significantly expands TT’s multi-asset capabilities to cover corporate, government, municipal, and emerging market bonds, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swaps, and bolsters TT’s standing in fixed income derivatives…
Tallarium Secures Additional Investment from XTX Ventures and Reciprocal
Tallarium, a provider of specialised trade analytics for price discovery in off-exchange energy markets, has secured an additional $1.6million investment from XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of algorithmic trading company XTX Markets, and Reciprocal, a venture capital firm. The investment will support the company’s goal of becoming the definitive pricing source for the energy…
Reviewing Developments in the Global Regulatory Landscape and the Impact on Technology Change
If there’s one thing that we can be sure of with the world’s financial markets, it’s that the regulatory landscape never stands still. And right now, we’re going through a particularly dynamic phase. Divergence between UK and EU regulation post-Brexit is high on the agenda, with the EU conducting its ongoing review of MiFID II…
TS Imagine Launches Real-Time Risk Platform, RiskSmart X
TS Imagine, the provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions formed following the merger of Trading Screen and Imagine Software in 2021, has launched RiskSmart X, a new cross-asset class, real-time risk platform designed for prime brokerage firms. Offered as a SaaS solution, RiskSmart X’s configurable platform allows prime brokerage and risk management teams…
FCA Publishes Trade Data Review and Launches Wholesale Data Market Study
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new report suggesting that the market for trade data in the UK – both pre-trade and post-trade – currently does not work as effectively as it could. The report is the outcome of a review conducted by the FCA that combined qualitative information on the business…
A-Team-Sponsored Crostyx Girls U12s Team Leads the Way at In2Hockey County Championships
Crostyx Hockey Club’s Girls Under 12 team succeeded in defending their Essex Champions title last month, coming top of their qualifying table in the In2Hockey County Championships and securing a place at the Regional Championships in Norfolk later this month. A-Team Group is a keen sponsor of Crostyx’s Junior Section, which also saw its Boys…
The New World of Trading Technology – a View from the Top
What are the key developments in the financial markets sector today and how are those developments impacting trading technology decisions? Where is innovation occurring and what are the challenges that firms face when deploying new solutions? How are firms tackling such an acute lack of diversity in the workforce that for a recently advertised position,…
Man Group Partners with Bloomberg to Develop New DataFrame Database Product
Man Group, the technology-empowered global investment firm, has signed a multi-year open-source technology development and product integration agreement with Bloomberg, the financial information company, to build upon Man’s DataFrame database product, ArcticDB, and to integrate it into BQuant Bloomberg’s open source analytics platform. ArcticDB is a high-performance Python-native database, built in response to the challenges…