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RJ O’Brien Deploys Eventus in the Cloud for Risk Monitoring and Trade Surveillance
Derivatives trader RJ O’Brien & Associates’ (ROJ) selection of Eventus Systems’ Validus as the global platform for its trade surveillance and risk monitoring requirements is aimed at meeting the firm’s regulatory obligations across a range of jurisdictions, including MAD/MAR, MiFID II RTS 6, the CFTC’s Tag 50 and regulations emanating from the Asia/Pacific region. According…
Canadian Regional Desjardins Group Taps SmartTrade to Automate FX Work Flows
Canadian regional financial services group Desjardins has selected smartTrade’s LiquidityFX foreign exchange trading platform, as the basis for an end-to-end solution to automate its institutional and retail FX workflows across all divisions of the bank. The implementation is characteristic of growing demand smartTrade says it is facing from regional banks, many of which are ‘greenfield’…
TriOptima Connects triResolve Margin Service with SWIFT Payments to Automate UMR Processes
OTC derivatives post-trade services specialist TriOptima is extending its triResolve Margin collateral management service to support automated Swift payment capabilities. The addition of Swift connectivity means that TriOptima clients who are now in-scope for phases 5 and 6 of the BCBS/IOSCO Uncleared Margin Rules will be able to instruct Swift payments directly via the platform,…
Kepler Cheuvreux Taps Big xyt to Add Value via TCA
Execution-only broker Kepler Cheuvreux’s decision to implement Big xyt’s execution analytics and transaction cost analysis solution is part of a growing tendency for trading firms to view TCA as an opportunity to improve the business rather than as just a compliance box to tick. Big xyt’s independent execution analysis solution supports TCA functions like benchmarking…
The Cloud Has Important Trading Use Cases, Say Speakers at TradingTech Summit 2020
The rapidly evolving role of the cloud within trading operations at financial services organizations was one of the key themes of TradingTech Summit 2020, an A-Team Group event, held in London in late February. Over the course of the day, speakers addressed a wide range of aspects of cloud usage within the overall technology infrastructure…
Hg Acquires Stakes in SmartTrade
French trading platform supplier SmartTrade last month quietly announced that private equity firm Hg had acquired stakes in the company from existing investors Keensight Capital and Pléiade Venture. SmartTrade isn’t saying much about the deal but in a statement reported that the existing management team under CEO David Vincent will remain in place and as…
Refinitiv Launches Tick History in Google Cloud to Speed Access and Lower Storage Costs
Refinitiv has made its archive of historical pricing and trade data – five petabytes’ worth of information – available to clients via the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The offering will allow customers will also be able to access, query and analyse Refinitiv’s tick data using the machine learning capabilities of Google Cloud’s BigQuery. The move…
Trading Tech Summit 2020: Optimism for Technology Amid the Continued Regulatory Change
Trading technology professionals can look forward to a year of demanding – and exciting – change, according to speakers and panellists at this week’s A-Team Trading Tech Summit in London. UK- and EU-based firms can expect more regulatory developments – brought about by Brexit, the so-called MiFID II Refit and changes to Market Abuse Regulation…
Cutting Through the Noise: How to Identify True Outsourced Trading
By Andrew Walton, Head of European Business at Tourmaline Partners. More than 18 months into the era of MiFID II, it is now clear how this key piece of European regulation has fundamentally changed the business models of both brokers and investment firms. Buy-side firms in particular are required to have greater systems and controls…
CJC Launches DACS in the Cloud, Prepares for More Offerings
London-based market data consultancy CJC has launched a cloud-based managed service for Refinitiv’s Data Access Control System (DACS) platform, at the same time confirming a new technology partnership with Google Cloud aimed at supporting CJC’s overall cloud strategy. By making DACS in the cloud a viable proposition, CJC hopes to eradicate entitlement management as an…