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TRG Screen Combines and Enhances FITS and INFOmatch Capabilities to Deliver Optimize Spend
TRG Screen has added Optimize Spend to the Optimize platform it introduced late last year. The first solution on the platform, Optimize Spend combines, extends and enhances the best of TRG’s FITS and Screen’s INFOmatch, which TRG acquired in 2018, to offer a best-of-breed market data and subscription spend management solution. Further additions to the…
The Capital Markets Enterprise 2021: Digitalizing for Competitive Advantage
By Nathan Snyder, Head of Banking and Capital Markets Consulting, DXC Luxoft. Many financial institutions find themselves at a crossroads as they take stock of concerns about their ongoing financial viability. As they attempt to return to some semblance of normal in the wake of the pandemic, many banks need to decide how to respond to the…
Indosuez Wealth Management Automates ETF Trading with Bloomberg Rule Builder
Indosuez Wealth Management, the global wealth management brand of Crédit Agricole Group, has become the first bank to adopt Bloomberg’s Rule Builder for automated ETF trading, following a pilot testing period. Rule Builder is a trade automation solution that covers fixed income, FX, equities, futures, and now ETFs. The system is designed to help traders…
Industry Leaders to Discuss Innovation, Cloud, Digital Transformation and Trading Infrastructure at Upcoming Virtual Summit
In its first iteration since the global Covid-19 pandemic, next week’s A-Team TradingTech Summit Virtual has a sharp focus on how emerging technology and infrastructure are presenting capital markets organisations with the opportunity to digitally transform their businesses. With the work from home phenomenon and the explosion in data volumes pointing to the need for…
Straits Financial Joins TrueFX to Enhance Clients’ Access to FX Liquidity
Singapore-based brokerage house Straits Financial Services has joined TrueFX, a trading facility for spot FX, as a clearing member, to provide FX brokers and buy-side firms in the Asia Pacific region with direct market access to spot FX liquidity. TrueFX was launched last year by technology vendor Integral and investment bank Jefferies, in a move…
Infrastructure Monitoring: Mapping Technical Performance to Business Performance
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent, TradingTech Insight. High-performance infrastructure and connectivity technologies have become essential components of trading architectures in today’s electronically traded markets. And as trading systems become ever faster, increasingly interconnected, and process more and more data, there has never been a greater need for accurate and comprehensive monitoring of the infrastructure that…
Gedik Investment Selects Horizon as Algo Trading in MENA Region Grows
Gedik Investment, a leading brokerage house in Turkey, has chosen Horizon Software as its platform for algorithmic execution of equities on the Borsa Istanbul exchange. Gedik has implemented both the TWAP and POV trading strategies offered by Horizon, allowing the Gedik team to time trades efficiently and instantly benefit from significant changes in price. “The…
Editor’s Recognition Award for Best Trading Technology Practitioner
Vijay Bhandari, Technology Principal, Strategy and Innovation Network, Deutsche Bank. Following the announcement of A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Awards – USA 2021, we talked to Vijay Bhandari about the award, his work at Deutsche Bank, and how he expects his role to evolve over the next year. A-Team: Vijay, what does this award mean to…
Glue42 and Deephaven Collaborate to Deliver Pre-Trade Risk Management at Top 10 Hedge Fund
Desktop integration specialist Glue42 has partnered with Deephaven Data Labs, a next-generation data platform, to build a unified portfolio management platform for a top 10 global hedge fund, delivering a pre-trade risk and regulatory compliance module as an initial use case. The hedge fund had four specific goals in mind, says Reena Raichura, Head of…
TickSmith Partners with BMLL to Help Firms Monetise Their Data, and Integrates with Snowflake’s Data Cloud
Montreal-based TickSmith has announced a collaboration with BMLL, the data and analytics company, that will enable data producers, including exchanges, trading venues and data vendors, to generate new revenue streams by creating and distributing analytics derived from their data. TickSmith’s Enterprise Data Web Store allows data-rich firms to create their own customisable data web store,…