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Cosaic Partners with Reformis to Deliver Desktop Interoperability to the Buy Side
Smart desktop technology provider Cosaic has forged a strategic partnership with buy-side technology consultants Reformis to help bring desktop interoperability to investment management firms by leveraging Cosaic’s Finsemble platform. Under the new partnership, Reformis will assist buy side firms with the implementation of desktop interoperability, using Finsemble as the underlying infrastructure. Finsemble is designed to…
Trader Desktop Interoperability Comes of Age
Desktop interoperability – the ability to seamlessly integrate multiple applications across the desktop – has long been a holy grail for financial markets firms, particularly in the front office, where traders across both the buy side and sell side often have a number of applications open at any one time to perform a wide range…
SGX Partners DataBP to Power Own Brand Market Data Licensing and Usage Portal
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has partnered DataBP, provider of a market data administration platform and services for exchanges, index and data providers, to use the latter’s platform and commercial expertise to roll out SGX Data Direct, an SGX-branded online portal for data licensing and usage reporting powered by DataBP. SGX joins a community of exchanges using…
Tradovate Adopts Eventus Validus Platform for Regulatory Monitoring
Tradovate, a US online brokerage firm catering to self-directed futures traders, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus trade surveillance platform to identify patterns of dangerous activity within its order flow, as well as to meet regulatory requirements, including monitoring and ensuring the proper use of regulatory tags. The firm is using Validus to monitor more than 2.5…
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Market Structure for Digital Assets Trading
The landscape of digital assets trading is evolving rapidly. And while cryptocurrencies are fast becoming mainstream, the wider world of tokenisation and decentralised finance (DeFi) is arguably generating even greater interest amongst institutional investors. Many buy-side and sell-side firms, as well as exchanges and technology service providers, are looking at how they can take advantage…
Private Equity Firm 7RIDGE to Acquire Trading Technologies, Installing Todd as CEO
Derivatives connectivity and trading platform operator Trading Technologies International (TT) is to be acquired by 7RIDGE, a London-based private equity firm run by ex-Deutsche Boerse CEO Carsten Kengeter. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is backed by two of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges, Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Cboe Global Markets. The deal with 7RIDGE…
Online Broker Axi Implements KX Insights for Data Analysis
Online foreign exchange broker Axi has adopted KX Insights, KX’s cloud-first, real-time streaming analytics platform, as part of its expansion plans. Axi will use KX Insights for capture, analysis and visualisation of enormous datasets in real time including market data quotes, customer trades, and derived calculations in the cloud. Axi says the deployment strengthen its…
Pico Launches 100 Gbps Corvil 10000 Performance Monitoring appliance
Markets technology and infrastructure provider Pico has released its new flagship appliance – the Corvil 10000 – which boosts the capacity of its performance monitoring and analytics capabilities to handle 100 Gigabits/second deployments. The development follows the release last spring of 100 Gbps capability for Corvil Analytics’ performance monitoring solutions, and is aimed at meeting…
A Stable Future: The Evolution of Trade Finance as a Digital Asset
By Christoph Gugelmann, CEO, Tradeteq. The emergence of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies as a means of achieving investment returns is gathering pace amongst bank and non-bank trading institutions. For example, State Street launched a dedicated cryptocurrency division while Standard Chartered announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading platform. Meanwhile, a survey of 100 hedge…
ACTIV Financial Finds Buyer in the Form of Options Technology
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Fixnetix earlier this year, Belfast-based trading IT and infrastructure provider Options Technology has reached an agreement to acquire market data vendor ACTIV Financial for an undisclosed sum. The deal, aimed to further support Options’ growth strategy through the addition of ACTIV’s real-time, delayed, historical and enriched multi-asset…