Electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology provider Horizon Software has announced the release of Horizon Extend, a development framework for the Horizon platform.
Clients will be able to utilise Horizon Extend to create new pricing modules and hedgers within the system, to automate workflow, to add advanced routing rules for DMA flow, and to develop their own trading risk and control rules, among other things.
The buy-side trading desk is facing a structural reckoning. Decades of siloed systems for equities, FX and fixed income have created what COOs increasingly describe as a “silo tax” – duplicated headcount, fragmented data, and operational overhead that is harder to justify now that the underlying workflows have, in functional terms, converged. Thirty years of...
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