A-Team Insight Brief
Capital.com Selects IntegralFX for Retail FX Customers
Global brokerage firm Capital.com has selected IntegralFX, the cloud-based FX workflow automation solution from technology provider Integral, to offer bank-grade pricing to its retail trader customer base.
Integral’s end-to-end eFX trading and workflow solution has been specifically built for the broker community. Capital.com will aim to benefit from connectivity to Integral’s low-latency market data, greater access to multi-asset liquidity sources, and advanced price distribution functionality.
Start-up Util Raises £5m for its Environmental Impact Data Service
Util has closed a £5 million funding round that saw the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange buy stakes in the London-based sustainability data provider. Util counts Danske Bank Asset Management and Degroof Petercam Asset Management among the customers to whom it supplies environmental impact data on 50,000 companies.
Alveo Ops360 Adds No Code Curve builder & Integrates with QuantLab
Cloud-based market data management service provider Alveo has extended its data operations solution Ops360 by rolling out ‘no code’ capabilities in its curve builder and integrating with QuantLab for advanced analytics.
Without the need to code, users can now drag and drop input data sets into functions and set parameters to derive data and calculate curves and risk factors. They can also now prototype and do ‘what if’ analysis on risk factor creation against either standard libraries such as QuantLib, or their own libraries in Python or other languages.
OpenFin Expands to Government Sector
OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, has expanded out outside of the finance sector for the first time by entered into a strategic partnership with, and securing investment from, In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor serving the U.S. intelligence and national security community.
The company has also announced record growth for the first half of 2022, with a number of significant wins in the finance space. The software is now used at more than 3,800 banks, wealth and asset management firms in 60+ countries.
Rimes Offers Clients DEI Data from Denominator
Diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) metrics specialist Denominator is to provide data and scores to financial institution clients of ESG data management company Rimes Technologies. Rimes, which won two gongs in this year’s A-Team Innovation Awards, described the new partnership as a “great addition to our data universe”. Denominator’s metrics are based on more than 650 DEI variables applied to more than 1.5 million private and public companies.
McObject Extends Capabilities of eXtremeDB in Version 8.3
McObject has released version 8.3 of eXtremeDB, a hybrid in-memory and persistent database management systems (DBMS) that can be used as an embedded database with or without SQL, a client/server database, and a distributed database. New features in eXtremeDB 8.3 include: server-side authentication when using eXtremeDB as a client/server DBMS; addition of authentication to the JDBC driver; C# SQL API for .NET 5 and .NET 6; and SQL execution engine improvements.
FactSet Partners Brazilian News and Market Data Vendor Agência Estado
FactSet has struck a strategic partnership with Agência Estado, a real-time news and market data vendor in Brazil. The partnership integrates Agência Estado’s Portuguese-language newswire into FactSet’s workstation to create the Broadcast+ FactSet Workstation, a co-branded solution combining local Brazilian news and content from Agência Estado with FactSet’s data, analytics, and technology services.
FI Feedback Sought in Creation of GFANZ Corporate Climate Data Hub
Financial institutions and auditing companies have been invited to offer their expertise and feedback on the creation of a global corporate climate performance database backed by the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). The One Planet Data Hub would be handed over to the United Nations once it is complete, and a prototype service is expected to be unveiled next year. Regulators and standards setters are already involved in the project, as are data providers including Moody’s and S&P.
Bloomberg Expands Sustainable Fixed Income Index Offering
Bloomberg has added new sustainable bond indices to its suite of ESG-focused products. The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Green, Social, Sustainability Bond Indices will be built on the financial data giant’s Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index, the Bloomberg Sustainable Finance Group’s green, social and sustainability bond indicators, and metrics aligned to the International Capital Market Association Green Bond, Social Bond and Sustainability Bond Principles and Guidelines.
CQG Partners with Lime to Offer Trade Execution on US Equities
Trading technology solutions provider CQG has expanded its partnership with technology-driven broker-dealer Lime Trading Corp. CQG’s front-end trading platforms are now integrated and certified into Lime’s back end for trade execution, giving CQG clients the ability to seamlessly access Lime’s low-latency gateways to US exchanges and dark pool venues for equity trading.
CQG clients also gain access to Lime’s execution services, including its liquidity-seeking algorithm, a smart order router that searches for optimal liquidity in a fragmented marketplace.