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Vela Partners Enyx on Ticker Plant Providing Access to US Equity Markets on One Device
Vela continues to push the boundaries of low latency through a partnership with Enyx that is delivering the company’s latest ultra-low latency ticker plant appliance for US equities. The hybrid solution includes Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA card for decoding, line arbitration, filtering, and full order management and book building, with Vela providing normalisation and distribution via…
CME Group Selects Google Cloud Platform for Real-Time Market Data
CME Group has joined the crowd on the cloud, but has selected the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to offer real-time futures and options market data, rather than the usual choice of vendors in capital markets, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The collaboration between CME Group and Google Cloud will go live on November 17, 2019 and…
Trade Surveillance Under MAD/MAR, MiFID II and Other Global Regulations
By Peter Lawrey, CEO at Chronicle Software. Regulations like MiFID II and the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) in Europe, and Dodd Frank in the US, have raised the bar with respect to trade surveillance as regulators seek to boost transparency and investor protections across the board. This has created the need for financial institutions to…
BNP Paribas Builds Cortex LIVE FX Platform on OpenFin OS
BNP Paribas has built and deployed a single dealer FX platform, Cortex LIVE, on the OpenFin OS, which is designed to support desktop interoperability. Based on OpenFin OS, Cortex LIVE offers users intelligent execution methods, transparency and enhanced controls. It also features a real-time market intelligence portal, Insight LIVE, as well as data visualisation and…
Pico Refits Jersey Network with Optical Dark Fibre, Adds Corvil Performance Monitoring
Pico is pushing on with its global expansion plan and taking advantage of its acquisition of Corvil with a refit of its Jersey network and the deployment of Corvil network performance monitoring and analytics on top of the network. The new network, the company’s latest investment in its PicoNet proprietary global financial markets network, is…
genesis offers Platform-as-a-Service for Low Code Application Development
genesis has expanded its microservices-based infrastructure with business components and a set of tools to deliver genesis platform, a low code application development platform designed for capital markets and able to produce robust, secure products and solutions at unprecedented speed by radically reducing coding. The genesis platform is designed to helps clients address highly complex…
big xyt Addresses Gap in Market After Closure of Fidessa Fragulator with XYT View
Reflecting the ever increasing problem of fragmented market data, big xyt, a provider of market data analytics, has released XYT View, an aggregated view of data that firms can use to ensure they are achieving the best possible outcomes for themselves and their clients. XYT View is a web-based tool that allows the trading community…
SOTERIA and RIMES Join Forces on Trade and Communications Surveillance
A new partnership is set to combine two of the most fragmented and challenging areas of market surveillance, as SOTERIA (formerly known as Insightful Technology) joins forces with managed data services and RegTech provider, RIMES Technologies, to create a new solution that assists firms to detect market abuse and insider dealing through the unison of…
HKEX Pulls Out of Bid for LSE
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX) has dropped its $37 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) because it has been unable to engage with LSEG management to realise the deal. While the frustration of HKEX is palpable in its withdrawal statement, there will no doubt be sighs of relief at LSEG as…
Fenics Market Data Releases Enhanced FX Pricing Data Package
Fenics Market Data (Fenics MD), a division of BGC Partners, has released an enhanced FX data package (FMD FX) with over 46,000 new FX records comprising of 350+ currency pairs in Spot, Forward FX and NDF to complement the 120 FX Options currency pairs already available. FMD FX is based on proprietary technology that includes…