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.
Ultra-low latency is no longer the preserve of a handful of proprietary trading firms. As new asset classes electronify, data volumes surge, and regulatory expectations around execution quality and resilience tighten, the performance demands on trading infrastructure are broadening across sell-side desks, electronic market makers, and an expanding range of buy-side participants. The technology landscape...
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...
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They say time flies when you’re enjoying yourself, and so it seems the industry have been having a blast with its preparations for the introduction of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) next month. But now it’s time to get serious. To date, much of the industry debate has centred on the identifier itself: its...