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Evolution of the Algo Trading Desk
The algo trading desk continues to develop, driven by technology opportunity and competitive markets, but other factors are also playing into development as the buy-side and sell-side acknowledge the need for more communication and brokers invest in data transparency. The evolution of the algo trading desk and the role of both buy-side and sell-side firms…
MarketAxess Develops Portfolio Trading Solution to Automate Workload
MarketAxess, operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities and provider of market data and post-trade services for global fixed income markets, is developing a platform designed to reduce the manual workload of portfolio trades and improve competitive pricing. As a result of feedback from clients performing portfolio trades, an uptick in portfolio…
TRG Screen Acquires Axon, Adds to Solutions Armoury
Data usage and subscription management specialist TRG Screen’s acquisition of Axon Financial Systems, which helps practitioners comply with suppliers’ data policies, continues a series of acquisitions and expansions at TRG that began when VC Polaris Partners acquired a controlling stake in the company in 2014 and drafted in Steve Matthews as CEO. Axon’s main attraction…
BTON Financial Taps Schwieger and Walker as Non-Execs
BTON Financial, a startup that is offering outsourced smart broker routing targeting mid-tier asset managers, has appointed the London Stock Exchange’s Brian Schwieger and Merrill Lynch’s Tony Walker as non-executive directors. Schwieger and Walker have joined as advisors, helping BTON to promote its vision of offering SaaS-based, broker-neutral routing of buy-side orders to sell-side trading…
Cost of Trading Infrastructure Goes Down as Demand for Lower Latency Goes Up
The cost of technology to optimise trading infrastructure is going down, but that doesn’t mean demand for increasingly low-latency solutions is going down too. A panel at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit in New York City discussed the issues of optimisation for high performance under the auspices of moderator Greg Piesco, associate partner at Citihub…
Digital Reasoning Releases AI-Enabled Voice Analytics and Partnership with Corlytics
After four years of research and development, Nashville-based Digital Reasoning has released an AI-enabled voice analytics solution for financial services communications monitoring. It has also announced a partnership with regulatory risk tech company, Corlytics, to deliver one of the highest volumes of pre-trained models for monitoring available to the financial sector, according to the companies….
Pico Pushes on to Fulfil Global Expansion Plan
Pico, a provider of infrastructure, connectivity, cloud technology, data and analytics services, has a global expansion plan and is pushing on to fulfil it with an additional 20 colocation facilities due to be up and running across Asia this year, expansion of its PicoNet proprietary network, hybrid connectivity options including radio transmission, and ongoing developments…
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit Discusses the Challenges and Solutions of Cloud Technology
The move to the cloud is accelerating, but not without challenges and questions, some of which were answered during a panel session at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit in New York City. Ian Tivey, moderator of the panel and associate partner and cloud practice lead at Citihub Consulting, opened the session on cloud technologies to…
Corvil 9000 Offers High-Performance Trading Data Capture and Analytics
Trading infrastructure monitoring and analytics specialist Corvil’s release of the Corvil 9000 analytics appliance builds on the Dublin-based provider’s quest to help trading firms identify new opportunities through the capture and analysis of network traffic and execution performance. Corvil 9000 is a network traffic capture appliance that is able to operate in 40Gbps and 100Gbps…
TradingTech Summit Opens with Focus on Digital Transformation
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit, hosted in New York City earlier this week, opened with a focus on digital transformation and its impact on business. Simon Letort, chief digital officer and head of innovation at Société Générale Americas, presented a keynote covering innovation and digital change at the bank, and how it is building a shared…