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Exactpro and Athens Stock Exchange Publish Case Study on Successful Trading System Migration
Exactpro, the software testing company, and the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) have jointly released a new case study entitled “Athens Stock Exchange Trading System FIX Migration – OASIS Upgrade Testing & Coverage Analysis.” The study focuses on the data-driven passive testing and functional test automation approaches used by Exactpro to assist the migration of the…
ICE ESG Chief Marks a Busy 18 Months in Product Development
Larry Lawrence has got off to a running start in his first 18 months as head of sustainable finance at data and market technology giant Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). When ESG Insight spoke to him last year not long into his new job, Lawrence was putting together an expansion plan that he said would harness the disparate strengths of…
How to Make the Most of Market Data
The challenges of sourcing, managing and monitoring market data are well rehearsed, but solutions are emerging as financial institutions zero in on their requirements, and data vendors respond. Short term, cost, coverage, accuracy, user rights and compliance are key concerns. Longer term, new approaches to market data such as pay-as-you-go pricing, packaged data and software…
Regnology Continues Expansion of Solutions Portfolio with Invoke Purchase
Regulatory reporting solutions provider Regnology’s definitive agreement to acquire Invoke, a France-based supplier of financial, regulatory, and tax reporting solutions for supervisory authorities and reporting entities, marks the fifth acquisition in less than a year for the company, which was spun out of BearingPoint in 2021. The aggressive acquisition programme is aimed at offering a…
Webinar Preview: Standards and Taxonomies Pose Multiple Challenges
Taxonomies provide the definitive framework on which ESG regulations, government policies and business strategies are built. They help define what company, product or service is sustainable from an ESG point of view and they provide the language for labelling those elements, such as “green bonds”. But they are only as valuable as they data that…
What’s Driving Capital Markets’ Growing Interest in Cloud?
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. As we pointed out in our last blog, after an extended period of reticence – based mainly on sensitivities around latency, security, and privacy – capital markets trading firms are finally joining the rest of the digital world by exploring how cloud can help their business and streamline or…
BTP is on a mission to build trust in capital markets, Chronicle is its digital provenance solution
Provenance can be a problem, but there are answers as vendors such as BTP move into the space with solutions that help financial institutions gain confidence in the provenance of capital markets related assets such as data, financial instruments, commodities, and regulatory reports. The company’s digital provenance solution, Chronicle, was made generally available in autumn…
IBM plans release of Hybrid Cloud Mesh to ease management of multi-cloud infrastructures
IBM is planning a second half 2023 release date for IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, a SaaS offering designed to help enterprises manage hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. Driven by application-centric connectivity, the cloud mesh is engineered to automate the process, management and observability of application connectivity in and between public and private clouds. The solution unlocks the…
Overnight Trading Specialist Blue Ocean to Deploy S3 for CAT Reporting
Blue Ocean Technologies’ Blue Ocean ATS trading platform has selected S3, a regulatory reporting and trading analytics provider, for reporting to the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Blue Ocean Technologies specialises in global afterhours trading. According to Matthew Horisk, Chief Information & Operating Officer for Blue Ocean Technologies, “Utilizing S3’s CAT Reporting Service will be…
Vontobel Expands Deployment of NICE Actimize Markets Surveillance Platform
Swiss investment firm Vontobel has renewed its contract with NICE Actimize, and expanded its use of the SURVEIL-X Markets Surveillance platform. The broadened arrangement will support Vontobel’s future growth plans while continuing to meet its current regulatory requirements. The new arrangement allows long-time NICE Actimize client Vontobel to add new capabilities going forward. Vontobel’s use…