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SteelEye Becomes LME ISV Provider
Compliance technology and data analytics specialist SteelEye has become an approved LME ISV, passing all conformance tests to offer connectivity directly to LMEselect. LMEselect is the LME’s electronic member to member trading system, accessed by members of the exchange, allowing them to anonymously execute trades with other member firms. Clients of members are also able…
Success for Exactpro on Testing for Live Digital Derivatives Platform ZUBR
Exactpro, a specialist , ex-LSE Group firm providing independent functional and non-functional testing, has successfully finalised full software testing of the live digital derivatives platform ZUBR Exchange ahead of its launch. Exactpro’s testing was aimed at providing transparency to ZUBR’s clients and investors, and has ensured robust trading and risk engine performance. The ZUBR testing…
Infront Adds Equiduct Apex Market Data to Professional Terminal
Oslo-based European market data vendor Infront is adding data from the Equiduct pan-European trading platform. The vendor will incorporate market data from Equiduct’s Apex on-exchange trading service for retail orders into the Infront Professional Terminal. The Apex service is backed by Equiduct’s pool of liquidity providers and active brokers. The service automatically calculates the best…
SmartStream Partners with Luxoft for Post-Trade Lifecycle Alliance
Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) specialist SmartStream has teamed up with software engineering firm Luxoft in a new post-trade lifecycle alliance that aims to support more efficient, streamlined and cost-effective middle- and back-office operations. Switzerland-based Luxoft was acquired in June last year by US digital services giant DXC Technology for $2 billion, in a deal that…
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…