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The Market Prepares for Trading Digital Assets
By David Griffiths, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Systems. The journey into the world of trading digital assets is underway but differing regulatory regimes and a lack of technology standards remain a challenge. A recent A-Team Group webinar with representatives from Archax, R3 and Eventus provided insight into the ‘The Emerging Market Structure for Institutional…
Horizon Expands Algo Platform to Include Agency Trading Functions
Algo trading technology provider Horizon Software has expanded its Electronic Trading Platform to include agency trading functionality. Initially designed for market-making and algo trading services, Horizon has added high-touch, DMA, DSA and global order routing for equity and global derivatives, to support banks and brokers conducting agency trading. Clients that use Horizon for their market-making…
A-Team Webinar: Integrating Intelligent Machine-Readable News
Machine-readable news technology, which enables trading and investment firms to process unstructured news data in a way that it can be added to the investment process, has become a powerful tool for firms seeking a competitive edge in today’s markets, as it can help firms derive sentiment, which in turn can be used to generate…
There’s More To A-Team Than Meets the Eye – Check Out Our Shiny New Website to Find Out More
Here at A-Team Group HQ, we’ve spent a lot of the global pandemic tracking and supporting the capital markets technology industry as it has grappled with the operational hurdles Covid-19 threw in their path. But we have also been working behind the scenes to launch a new website for our marketing clients to better reflect…
SmartTrade Adds to FX Capabilities with Purchase of TickTrade
French trading software company smartTrade has acquired Toronto-based TickTrade, a specialist in foreign exchange trading and payments technology. The transaction is aimed at positioning smartTrade to offer comprehensive solutions for the FX marketplace globally. SmartTrade already offers electronic trading and liquidity management solutions for firms trading in FX, fixed-income and other asset classes. TickTrade’s focus…
FINBOURNE Joins Dutch Regulatory Sandbox to Explore Creation of EU Consolidated Tape
FINBOURNE Technology, founded in 2016 with a mission to reduce the cost of investing and increase transparency, has joined the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets’ (AFM) regulatory sandbox to drive creation of a consolidated tape provider (CTP). A CTP features in the EU’s MiFID II and MiFIR frameworks, but has yet to emerge despite…
Options Partners with Code Willing to Offer New Quantitative Trading Service
Trading infrastructure provider Options Technology has partnered with data management company Code Willing to offer a new quantitative trading service intended to help clients better control and reduce their data analysis costs. The solution adds Code Willing’s data cleansing, organising, and cross-referencing capabilities with Options’ global network, infrastructure and managed services. Aimed at quantitative investment…
Macrobond Launches Live Data Sharing Platform with Aviva Investors
Macroeconomic data and analytics solutions vendor Macrobond has partnered with asset manager Aviva Investors to develop and launch the Macrobond Viewer, a data sharing platform that gives users the ability to share live research across the enterprise. Aviva Investors has already deployed the tool, which allows economists and portfolio managers to share live charts with…
CME/Google Partnership Aims to Transform Derivatives Markets
CME will migrate all of its markets and technology infrastructure to Google Cloud over the next 10 years, starting with its data and clearing services in 2022, under a 10-year strategic partnership between the two organisations. The arrangement – which CME Chairman and CEO Terry Duffy has said “will transform derivatives markets through technology” –…
Sponsored Blog: What Market Data Strategy Challenges Does the Buy-Side Face?
By Janelle Veasey, Head of Real-Time, Refinitiv, an LSEG business and John Mason, Group Head of Pricing Reference Services, Refinitiv, an LSEG business Although the new Refinitiv Connected Data survey shows that buy-side firms are making more progress on their digital transformation journeys than sell-side firms, the evolution of their market and reference data strategies…