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LedgerEdge and Charles River Collaborate to Provide DLT-Enabled Corporate Bond Liquidity
LedgerEdge, a corporate bond trading platform built on distributed ledger technology (DLT), has joined forces with Charles River Development (CRD), to provide investment firms with access to liquidity from LedgerEdge’s ecosystem via CRD’s Inventory Hub and OEMS. The partnership enables CRD’s Inventory Hub to deliver an aggregated view of corporate bond liquidity, with the aim…
Adaptive Acquires Real Logic; Thompson and Montgomery Join Management Team
Electronic trading consultancy Adaptive Financial Consulting has acquired Real Logic, a low-latency trading technology development firm founded by high-performance computing specialist Martin Thompson, who will be joining Adaptive’s management team as Head of Platform. Prior to setting up Real Logic in 2011, Thompson was CTO of financial exchange LMAX, and is seen as one of…
Adaptive Joins TradingTech Summit London to Discuss the Changing Reality of Technical Innovation
Adaptive, a provider of trading technology solutions based on the latest technologies and techniques, and a platinum sponsor of next week’s A-Team Group TradingTech Summit London, is pushing the boundaries to reduce the overall cost of innovation and delivery of novel capital markets products. Ahead of the event, we talked to Adaptive CEO and co-founder…
Pico Launches Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse for Real-Time Execution Analytics
Trading technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has launched the Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse, which aims to provide visibility into transaction execution quality to correlate client trading behaviour with execution path and counterparty performance. The solution, offered as a standalone software product, streams nanosecond-timestamped data from Corvil network instrumentation, to deliver real-time visibility at a…
Luxoft Outlines Challenges and Opportunities of Modernisation it Will Present at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London
With less than a week to go before A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London and a buzz building about the event’s sessions and speakers, we talked to James Wilson, Sales Director, Banking and Capital Markets, at Luxoft, one of the Summit’s platinum sponsors. Wilson highlights the challenges faced by the trading technology community, solutions to these…
Best Transaction Reporting Solutions
Transaction reporting is demanded of financial institutions by multiple regulatory regimes, with the goal of detecting suspected market abuse or money laundering. To comply, firms need to ensure their systems are able to deliver complete and accurate information about the financial instrument traded, the firm undertaking the trade, the buyer and seller, and the date…
Video: Kaiko Discusses Digital Assets Trading Infrastructure
In this video, Bediss Cherif, Head of Product at Kaiko, a provider of digital assets market data for institutions, outlines the infrastructure needed to underpin successful digital asset trading. He also tells us why he’s looking forward to speaking at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. ? You can find out more about…
Liquidnet Links Portfolio Managers Directly with Syndicate Banks for New Bond Issuance
Agency broker Liquidnet has introduced new functionality for new issue bonds, which enables investment firms to communicate with syndicate banks directly from their Order/Execution Management Systems (O/EMS) as part of the book build process, before the bond is priced and allocated. The new feature, which builds on the Liquidnet Primary Markets functionality the company launched…
APG Asset Management to Deploy IHS Markit’s ThinkFolio on AWS for Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
Dutch pension provider APG Asset Management, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands with €633 billion in assets under management, plans to transform front-office operations for its multi-asset portfolio globally using IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment management and trading system. Under the arrangement, IHS Markit will deploy and manage the infrastructure, as well as the thinkFolio…
Exegy Sees ‘Tectonic Shift’ as Sales Jump 50% due to Pandemic Volatility and ‘Retail Revolution’
Following its May 2021 merger with Vela Trading Systems, high-performance market data and trading technology specialist Exegy Inc. says a ‘tectonic shift’ in the marketplace is driving demand for its expanded portfolio of solutions. Among the factors now triggering investments in new data and trading technologies are the leap in volatility sparked by the global…