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TNS to Offer Managed Layer 1 Market Access at Bergamo IT3 for Euronext Move
Connectivity specialist TNS is expanding its managed hosting solution to the Aruba Global Datacentre IT3 in Bergamo, Italy, in preparation for Euronext’s migration of its primary matching engine from ICE’s facility in Basildon, UK, in the second quarter of next year. As with TNS’s other global colocation sites, TNS will leverage its Layer 1 switching…
Quod Financial Signs Four New Clients, as Demand for Automation and Multi-Asset Solutions Grows
Multi-asset OMS/EMS trading technology provider Quod Financial has secured four new clients – CMC Markets in London, Kepler Chevreux in Paris, SKB Bank (Sinara) in Russia and an undisclosed major bank in Saudi Arabia – to satisfy a range of functional requirements around automated trading, across multiple asset classes. CMC Markets Connect is leveraging Quod’s…
VoxSmart Acquires GreenKey Technologies to Bolster NLP Capabilities
London-based communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart Ltd., has acquired speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) provider GreenKey Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The deal will enable VoxSmart to strengthen its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions, as it moves to position itself as a leader in NLP and voice analytics for financial markets. The…
Manco.Paris Partners with Jump Technology to Offer Managed Front-to-Back Platform for Investment Managers
Manco.Paris, a regulated French Management Company (ManCo) has partnered with Paris-based software vendor Jump Technology, to provide institutional investors with real-time access to their portfolios. The capability – based on Jump Technology’s web-based front-to-back solution – will be offered as part of Manco.Paris’s full range of services, including UCITS or AIFM fund hosting, operational management,…
Northern Trust Invests in Essentia Analytics to Optimise Decision Support with Behavioural Science Capabilities
Northern Trust has taken a minority equity stake in behavioural data analytics vendor Essentia Analytics. The deal means that Essentia Analytics’ cloud-based solution, which brings together historical data and behavioural science to identify and address biases that impact investment performance, will be offered through the Northern Trust Whole Office platform, which facilitates client access to…
ION Acquires Clarus Financial Technology to Offer Margin and Risk Management for OTC Derivatives
Trading, analytics, and risk management solutions vendor ION Markets has acquired Clarus Financial Technology, a provider of SaaS analytics, data, and research for global derivatives markets, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will broaden ION’s XTP offering and complement ION’s JANUS pricing and valuation expertise with Clarus’s SaaS analytics products for real-time margin and risk…
Appital Integrates Equities Book Building Platform with FlexTrade
Fintech startup Appital, the UK-based equity capital marketplace, has integrated its book building platform with FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution management system (EMS) vendor. The integration will enable Appital users to execute large orders in small and mid-cap stocks through the Turquoise MTF, via a single point of access and with seamless straight-through-processing (STP) to over…
Liquidnet Launches Primary Markets for Electronic Trading of New Bond Issues
TP ICAP’s Liquidnet subsidiary has launched a platform to support electronic trading of new issues in fixed income markets. Liquidnet Primary Markets provides an electronic workflow for new issues in Debt Capital Markets (DCM), together with a new protocol for trading new issues. Integrated into the existing Liquidnet Fixed Income trading application, the solution provides…
CQG Connects to Brazilian Exchange B3 for Trading and Market Data
Trading solutions provider CQG has added Brazilian Exchange B3, one of the world’s largest financial market infrastructure companies, to its global network of exchanges, enabling clients to obtain trading and market data access to the Brazilian markets for their listed commodities, interest rates, treasury, and equities products. B3 futures contracts are now live on the…
SmartTrade Expands Partnership with Japan’s SBI as Demand for Crypto Solutions Grows
Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies is expanding its partnership with SBI Liquidity Market, a Japanese FX infrastructure solution and liquidity provider, to provide support for SBI FXTrade’s cryptocurrency derivative trading operations, which will complement the existing FX business of SBI Liquidity Market. SmartTrade is seeing increasing demand for its cryptocurrency & digital asset…