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Hedge Funds Gulping Up Alternative Data for Competitive Gain
Use of alternative data is on the rise, and a new study from the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), in collaboration with fund services and technology provider SS&C, finds that more than half (53%) of surveyed hedge funds globally now use alternative data to help them generate outperformance. Alternative data is unconventional or non-market data…
Pico Taps Frank Troise as Co-CEO
Markets technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has named electronic trading veteran Frank Troise as co-CEO in what current chairman, CEO and founder Jarrod Yuster terms the latest step toward taking the company to the next level of growth. The move – which will tap Troise’s operational expertise to support Pico’s expansion across its target market…
SteelEye Launches Free Communications Surveillance
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, this week confirmed that it would offer financial firms the opportunity to use its Communications Surveillance service for free as the market adapts to a new style of working under pandemic conditions. As firms reopen their offices, reduced density rules are likely to prevail for some time, meaning…
TNS Launches New York Upgrade for Ultra-low Latency Offering
US data communications provider TNS (Transaction Network Services) has upgraded its network in three New York Area data centres with the TNSXpress Layer 1 solution to speed up delivery of market data from NYSE, CBOE, and Nasdaq. The TNSXpress Layer 1, a single hop architecture that is up to 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3…
Can the FX Industry Achieve ‘Business as Usual’ at these Most Unusual of Times
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer at Integral. As novel COVID-19 has swept the globe, financial institutions can still remain focussed on trying to operate ‘business as usual’ and serve their clients. But this continuity can be achieved largely in part with access to the right technology. We are facing the biggest black swan event…
COVID-19: Regulator Round-up (5 May)
In these days of unprecedented economic pressure and accompanying financial volatility, regulators around the world are realigning their priorities and rapidly shifting their strategies to support institutions through the ongoing crisis. In this regular weekly feature, we keep you up to date on the latest regulatory news, responses and approaches – from deadline delays to…
Rapid Addition’s RA Platform 3.0 Address ‘Buy and Build’ Imperative
London-based trading technology provider Rapid Addition has released version 3.0 of its RA Platform, a middleware solution for handling electronic trading messaging, allowing firms to customise their trading connectivity set-ups to best suit their requirements. The new version aims to support firms’ growing tendency toward ‘buy and build’ as they seek to optimise their use…
Nasdaq Launches Cloud Data Service
Nasdaq has finally launched its new long-awaited Cloud Data Service (NCDS), offering access to real-time exchange data, index, and fund data through cloud-based technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution makes Nasdaq data available through a suite of scalable, cloud-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which utilise open-source delivery standards and a software development kit (SDK)…
WHSS-VendEx Tie-In Yields Superset of Market Data Management Capabilities
VendEx Solutions’ partnership with New York-based West Highland Support Services (WHSS) – announced this month – will allow both companies to market the superset of their combined offerings in financial data management, with a particular emphasis on market data. VendEx is seeking to shake up the market data inventory management space with its SaaS-based offerings….
COVID-19: Regulator Round-up (28 April)
In these days of unprecedented economic pressure and accompanying financial volatility, regulators around the world are realigning their priorities and rapidly shifting their strategies to support institutions through the ongoing crisis. In this regular weekly feature, we keep you up to date on the latest regulatory news, responses and approaches – from deadline delays to…