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Bloomberg Makes Strategic Investment in Insightful Technology and Integrates with Soteria
Bloomberg has made a strategic investment in London-based Insightful Technology, the owners and operators of the Soteria Integrated Compliance Solution, and entered into a commercial collaboration with the company. As part of the collaboration, Soteria will be integrated with Bloomberg Compliance Solutions, which includes Bloomberg Vault among other real-time Bloomberg surveillance systems and preventative controls,…
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at TORA Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an FX component operating alongside other asset classes. The FX market is highly fragmented and comprises multiple…
Solving the Multicast Challenge of Distributing Market Data in the Cloud
As cloud becomes increasingly widely adopted in the financial markets sector, one area of cloud migration that remains elusive is that of market data distribution. The key stumbling block is the fact that the industry almost exclusively relies on multicast for distributing real-time market data. Multicast is tried and tested, it works, it is well…
Pico Secures $200 Million Investment from Golden Gate Capital
Pico, provider of technology services, software, data and analytics for the financial markets community, has signed an agreement with Golden Gate Capital, the private equity investment firm, for a $200 million strategic investment. Pico will use the capital to pursue strategic M&A opportunities, and to extend its data offering and market coverage across all regions…
TRG Screen Launches Optimize Insights to Deliver Actionable Insights on Market Data Management
TRG Screen, the enterprise subscription management solutions vendor, has launched Optimize Insights, a suite of customisable dashboards and visualisations, designed to unlock data-driven intelligence and actionable insights into market data spend and usage. The new offering, which sits at the heart of TRG Screen’s Optimize platform for market data subscription management, launched in 2020, offers…
Back to Basics – The Fundamental Approach for Digitising Capital Markets
By Scott Eaton, CEO, Nivaura. News cycles in capital markets are fixated on the automation of the fixed-income market. The focus is almost exclusively focused on the secondary market as major market participants are both evolving their own offering while simultaneously swatting off the competitors that are kicking the evolution into high-gear. AI, machine-learning, smart-data,…
Britain’s Innovative Aim to be a Leader in Digital Securities, Not Just Crypto
Charlie Berman, Co Founder and CEO of agora. The British government announced last month the UK’s intention to become a global hub for cryptocurrency by seizing on what it sees as a historic opportunity. A senior civil servant said it means an intention to ‘learn quickly’ and ‘harness the potential of blockchain’. As John Glenn,…
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Adopts Bloomberg Rule Builder for FX and Fixed Income
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers in Japan and Asia, with AUM of JPY 87.0667 trillion, has adopted Bloomberg Rule Builder, a multi-asset, rules-based trade automation tool, to enhance the efficiency and productivity of trading services for FX and fixed income trading. The firm will utilise Rule Builder through Bloomberg’s…
ING Makes Strategic Investment in OpenFin
ING Ventures, the venture capital arm of ING, has made a $10m strategic investment in OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, becoming the 7th major financial institution to not only buy OpenFin but also become a strategic partner. ING adopted OpenFin’s technology in 2021 to accelerate the bank’s desktop transformation strategy. Employees now have…
Optimising High Performance Infrastructure for Growing Market Data Volumes
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance. Given the rising volume, what kind of decisions…