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The Current and Future Landscape of Real-Time Enterprise Market Data Distribution
Distributing real-time market data across the enterprise is a complex proposition, with many moving parts. Banks and other financial institutions spend vast sums to ensure that the correct market data, the lifeblood of their trading activities, is sourced, normalised, controlled and distributed out to end users and applications in the timeliest manner, with minimal downtime….
StoneX Chooses Chronicle FIX Solution for Equities Trading
StoneX Financial – formerly known as INTL FCStone – has selected Chronicle Software, the low-latency microservices and technology solutions provider, to enhance its equities trading performance. In a competitive process to replace its incumbent trading technology, the firm cited speed, flexibility and reliability as the key factors behind the decision to select Chronicle. StoneX provides…
Market Data in the Virtual Reality World
By Yousaf Hafeez, Head of Business Development for Financial Solutions at BT If you think that market data volumes are high today, you’ve seen nothing yet! With virtual reality (VR) tools for trading edging closer to becoming practically usable on trading floors, any larger scale uptake of such applications will mean an exponential rise in data…
DataBP Partner and Deutsche Boerse to Digitise Market Data Licensing
Data licensing and subscription management platform DataBP has partnered with Deutsche Boerse Group (DBAG) to introduce a digital data licensing and management platform that aims to streamline business operations and optimise the customer experience for the exchange group’s Market Data + Services (MD+S) business. DBAG provides its global client base with market data and services…
Singletrack Teams Up with Glue42 for Embedded Sell-Side CRM and Analytics
Singletrack has partnered with interoperability specialist Glue42 to integrate its client engagement and analytics platform into Glue42’s desktop integration platform. Through the initiative, which makes use of the FDC3 integration standard, Singletrack is seeking to offer hyper-personalised experiences to its sell-side clients. “As a company, we have been tracking the FDC3 standard for a while…
Valantic FSA Completes Strategic Investment in Low-Code Platform Provider Velox
Electronic trading and automation solutions provider valantic FSA, has completed a strategic investment in low-code development fintech Velox Financial Technology, to complement and bring further flexibility to its electronic trading business. The terms of the investment have not been disclosed, although valantic says it is “significant” and that it will allow the company to bring…
Streamlining the Full Trade Lifecycle Through Modularity & Interoperability
For broker-dealers, collapsing technology silos across the front, middle and back office has become increasingly important in the relentless drive towards cost reduction and greater efficiency. As technology has advanced, forward-looking firms are taking an enlightened approach to technology development and investing in consolidation across the entire trade lifecycle. Not only does this present an…
VendEx Solutions Launches Vendor Gateway to Market Data Platform
Market data administration specialist VendEx Solutions has launched VLink, the latest iteration of its VendEx ecosystem, which aims to create digital connections between market data vendors and financial institutions. Following the launch of its VSource vendor services directory in June last year, VLink is the vendor gateway that enables vendors to highlight and share detailed…
MarketAxess Selects DataBP to Automate Data Licensing and Post-Sales Processes
MarketAxess, operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities and provider of market data and post-trade services for global fixed income markets, is working with DataBP, a data licensing and commercial management platform, to support and automate its data licensing and post-sales processes. DataBP says that as data consumption methods in financial services…
What is Digital Transformation and How Do You Get it Right?
While financial institutions are grasping the opportunities offered by the digital transformation of their activities, a number of impediments are hampering some from extending the strategy to their operations teams in the back office. A stubborn corporate culture, fear of change and a lack of planning are just some of the challenges cited by industry…