The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...
Global sports platform Fanatics has agreed to acquire Water Street Labs, a CFTC-registered Designated Contract Market (DCM), and CX Clearinghouse, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), from BGC Group. The acquisition gives Fanatics direct ownership of the exchange and clearing infrastructure that will enable it to expand its prediction markets business. Alongside the transaction, the...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just over two months away, A-Team Group has updated its MiFID II handbook to bring you the latest details on the regulation’s compliance requirements. Version 2 of the handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, also includes new sections covering data sourcing and data...