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Brexit One Year On: How has the Trading Infrastructure Landscape Changed?
A year on from the UK’s exit from the EU, financial markets across UK and Europe have remained relatively healthy, and trading has continued across all asset classes without any major disruptions. Back in April last year, we reported on how firms were navigating the post-Brexit trading landscape, focusing on the preparations that trading venues…
Institutional Trading of Digital Assets to Lead the Hot Topics at A-Team’s TradingTech Summit London
Following a hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, A-Team’s TradingTech Summit is back in London this February for the 11th time, and will bring together trading technology professionals from across the industry, to discuss how firms are innovating in today’s cloud and digital based environment to create flexible and scalable trading platforms. A wide range…
TNS Offers Clients Relocation Service to New LSEG Data Centre
Trading infrastructure and connectivity provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) will offer seamless relocation to clients who wish to access the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data centre facility, when it relocates from Earl Street in the City of London to Telehouse Docklands later this year. TNS has secured infrastructure capacity in the new facility…
MDX Technology Secures Private Investment to Drive Business Expansion Plans
Data collaboration technology vendor MDX Technology (MDXT) has secured “significant investment” from a group of private backers, including Daniel Simpson and Emanuel Mond, co-founders of Cadis (now IHS Markit EDM) and Graham Denyer, ex CTO of IHS Markit EDM. The funding – an undisclosed amount – will accelerate the firm’s business development plans and new…
Cosaic and Aiera Partner to Deliver Plug-and-Play Desktop Interoperability
Smart desktop technology specialist Cosaic – formerly known as ChartIQ – has partnered with Aiera, an event-monitoring platform to provide plug-and-play interoperability of Aiera’s components with other applications on client desktops. Aiera allows hedge funds, banks and corporates with live monitoring of Wall Street events, via desktop and mobile applications and APIs. Aiera used Cosaic’s…
Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
Five Trading Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
The last couple of years have seen some significant shifts in the financial markets trading technology landscape. The impact of the global pandemic has forced many firms within the sector to fundamentally reassess their operational environments, and to accelerate their digitalisation and cloud initiatives. Crypto and digital assets have continued their forward march, as interest…
Can Prime Brokerage Open the Door to Institutional Access to Digital Assets?
By Martha Reyes, Head of Research, Bequant. It’s surprising how crypto markets have been repeating the same evolutionary cycles of infrastructure building as the traditional markets. As more established investors enter the crypto space, digital asset prime brokers are rising to the challenge to offer technology-driven solutions to many of the same challenges faced by…
Intelligent Machine Readable News – How to Get a Signal from the Noise
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trading firms seeking competitive advantage. It offers opportunities to turn unstructured data into actionable insight that can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment, but also raises challenges such as information sourcing, timing and contextualisation. A recent A-Team Group…
Wilshire Forms Digital Asset Advisory Group
Global investment technology and advisory company Wilshire has launched the Wilshire Digital Asset Advisory Group, to be chaired by Blythe Masters, founding partner at Motive Partners and ex-CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. The advisory group aims to bring together the world’s top digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights. The advisory group’s…