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VendEx Addresses Regulatory Compliance with VReg Module
VendEx Solutions continued on its quest to break the mould in the market data inventory systems space with last month’s launch of VReg, a new module that gives consumers of market data an overview of the data suppliers they use to meet their regulatory obligations. The addition is the latest step in the San Francisco…
Join the Debate on Cost and Accessibility of Market Data at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit
Is your firm challenged by the high costs of market data and redistribution charges? Does it face barriers to accessing market data in a timely fashion? And is it looking for ways to resolve these problems? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, join A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London on 25th…
New BMLL CEO Humphrey Outlines ‘Scale-Up Phase’ Post-$25 Million Funding
Fresh from a January funding round that brings total financing raised to $25 million, UK trading analytics specialist BMLL Technologies has named industry veteran Paul Humphrey to take the helm as CEO. Humphrey says the company is now in “scale-up phase” as it sets about its mission to derive value from data hidden within market…
Can EQT Partners Repeat $3 Billion BvD Flip with Rimes Investment?
Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners has emerged as the mystery suitor behind talk that managed data management specialist Rimes Technologies was up for sale. EQT is best known in the data management space as the investor that in 2014 acquired entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and flipped it three years later to…
What’s to Come in 2020: Advanced Trading Technology Opens Door to Highly Individualized and Agile Strategy
By Chris Hollands, Head of European and North American Sales, TradingScreen Farewell to the 2010s, the decade of pure speed. The period when automated trading shot up the curve, ascending from a tool of the early adopters to a cross-asset industry norm. We embraced algorithms as our trump card, so much so that they now…
S3 Offers SEC CAT Solution Ahead of April Reporting Deadline
As reporting to the SEC Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) fast approaches, with large industry participants and small industry participants reporting to the Order Audit Trail System (OATS) due to submit files on April 20, 2020, vendors are finalising solutions to support firms subject to the regulation. Among them is S3, a provider of regulatory reporting…
What’s New in Trading Technology? Upcoming Summit Hits all the Right Notes
At a time when the future of the EU trading environment is unclear, bringing together the European trading technology community could not be more critical. On 25 February, A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit will convene for its ninth year to unite senior industry experts, practitioners, providers and observers in a high intensity forum to examine the…
EU Policy Adviser Dr David Doyle Outlines TradingTech Summit Keynote on Impact of EU Regulation
With Brexit just a day away and the EU regulatory agenda for 2020 beginning to unfold, we talk to EU Policy Adviser for Financial Services Regulation, Dr David Doyle, about his expectations for the year ahead, the impact of Brexit on the UK trading industry, and potential amendments to MiFID II. To find out more…
Liquidnet Names Sanders to Lead New Investment Analytics Business Combining OTAS, Prattle, RSRCHXchange
Agency broker Liquidnet has consolidated its recently acquired technology assets into a single business unit focusing on investment analytics. The new unit – headed by Vicky Sanders, global head of investment analytics – comprises the OTAS Technologies (2017), Prattle (2019) and RSRCHXchange (2019) businesses, which were acquired over the past three years. Liquidnet Investment Analytics…
AxeTrading Addresses Best Execution for Fixed Income with Addition of Overbond Analytics
Bond trading software provider AxeTrading has teamed up with fixed-income analytics specialist Overbond to add its COBI pricing analytics to the AxeTrader execution management system (EMS). The arrangement reflects growing demand for analytics to support pricing evidence as regulations like MiFID II sharpen the focus on best execution within the fixed-income arena. The integration allows…