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Tokenisation Transforms Markets Giving Investors a Means to Take Control of Their Finances
By Joe Jowett, CEO and co-founder of StrikeX. ‘Take back control’ may have been the mantra of politicians in recent years, but in the world of financial planning it runs deeper. It represents how many people are taking greater control of their investments and financial affairs to boost their income or build up their savings….
A Global Turning Point for Sanctions and Compliance
By Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus. The digital assets community is rallying around Ukraine in its moment of need. The humanitarian crisis there is personal and direct given Ukraine is a global leader in blockchain engineering talent. During a digital assets conference I attended last month in San Francisco, many entrepreneurs…
IPC Launches Connexus Alpha for Ultra-Low Latency Connectivity
Connectivity solutions provider IPC has expanded its electronic trading portfolio with the launch of Connexus Alpha, which will enable financial markets participants to connect to key global liquidity venues through ultra-low latency optimised point-to-point optical fibre connections. Connexus Alpha, which IPC claims will offer a speed advantage in executing complex trading strategies while reducing the…
Trading Technologies Acquires Algorithmic Executions Specialist RCM-X
Following its acquisition by 7RIDGE late last year, Trading Technologies (TT), a provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, has acquired RCM-X, a Chicago-based technology provider of algorithmic execution strategies and quantitative trading products. RCM-X’s solution set includes trade analytics, independent transaction cost analysis (TCA), and back-testing and simulation services. The RCM-X engineering team…
LMAX Partners with SIX to Launch Cash-Settled Crypto Futures
LMAX Group, which operates trading venues for foreign exchange and cryptocurrencies, has partnered with Swiss financial infrastructure provider SIX, to launch cash-settled, centrally cleared crypto-asset futures. Pending regulatory approval, the launch is planned for the third quarter, and will initially include centrally cleared US dollar-settled Bitcoin and Ethereum futures, trading 23 hours, five days a…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2022
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Bloomberg, oneZero,…
Bloomberg Provides Real-Time Access to B-Pipe on Google Cloud
Bloomberg has collaborated with Google to enable mutual customers to access B-Pipe, Bloomberg’s real-time market data feed, through Google Cloud. The collaboration with Google provides customers with cloud access to real-time market data and analytics, for 35 million instruments, over 330 exchanges and 80 billion ticks a day. Bloomberg claims that it is the only…
Ediphy Working on Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Prototype with 10+ Financial Institutions
UK-based data analytics provider Ediphy Analytics is working with a group of financial institutions to finalise the development of its Consolidated Tape (CT) prototype, with the aim of tendering for the role of official European non-equity Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) next year. Ediphy says it’s in discussions with more than 10 major institutions across the…
Get Ready for A-Team Group’s Announcement of This Year’s Innovation Award Winners
Excitement is mounting in anticipation of next week’s announcement of the winners of A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s…
The Modernisation Imperative
In today’s fast-paced financial markets, institutions face a number of challenges. As well as having to cope with shrinking margins and ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny, firms are having to process more data from more sources than ever before, all in an increasingly competitive landscape. With everything moving so fast and changing so often, financial institutions are…