TradingTech Insight Brief
DiffusionData Releases New Gateway Framework
Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions vendor DiffusionData (formerly known as Push Technology) has released its Gateway Framework 1.0, designed to facilitate easy integration between Diffusion and back-end data sources.
The Gateway Framework, which comes fully integrated with the Diffusion Management Console, provides a low code solution, where the application writer only needs to concentrate on the interactions with the external systems.
Trading Technologies and Bantix Technologies Partner to Provide QuikStrike Through TT Platform
Trading Technologies, provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, has partnered with Bantix Technologies, an options software development company, to offer access to QuikStrike, Bantix’s options analysis software application, through the TT platform.
The QuikStrike interface will be accessible through TT via a single click, giving professional brokers and traders immediate access to options pricing, analytics and data retrieval, historical volatility tools, risk analysis, custom reporting and comprehensive market information.
LSEG Extends Yield Book Analytics Partnership with Citi
London Stock Exchange Group is to extend its long-standing Yield Book fixed income analytics partnership with Citi. The multi-year commitment aims to expand deep models, innovative analytics, and model infrastructure, providing clients with the necessary analytic tools to help manage and grow their businesses.
Yield Book provides analytics that enable market makers and institutional investors to perform analysis of their portfolios, benchmarks, trading decisions, historical performance, and risk, across a range of fixed income products, including governments, agencies, corporates, high yield, emerging markets, mortgages, ABS, CMBS, CMOs, and derivatives.
Tradefeedr Launches Algo Forecasting Suite for Selecting FX Execution Algos
Tradefeedr, the independent FX Data Analytics Platform, has launched the Algo Forecasting Suite, a collection of pre- and post-trade tools for analysing and selecting the most appropriate FX execution algos. The new service provides decision support in terms of whether to use an FX algo, expected algo behaviour, and the most suitable algo given market conditions, risk appetite, time, or audit constraints. It also provides post-trade analytics versus Tradefeedr forecasts, as well as metrics around opportunity costs.
The Algo Forecasting Suite is available via API and Excel, and will shortly be added to the Tradefeedr dashboard of services.
European Exchanges Agree on Joint Initiative for Equities Consolidate Tape
Fourteen European exchange groups are collaborating for the provision of a consolidated tape (CT) for equities in the European Union. The participating exchanges have signed a term sheet to establish a joint venture that will evaluate and prepare an application as a CT provider in a future selection process.
The project will focus on providing a comprehensive, standardised and consistent source of market data through the CT, and will seek to collaborate with regulators to develop the optimal solution for investors.
BMLL Signs Johannesburg Stock Exchange as New Client
BMLL, the historical Level 3 data and analytics provider, has added the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to its roster of exchange clients. BMLL’s data coverage will now extend to include JSE data across equities and ETFs, while the JSE will use BMLL’s Level 3 Data and analytics for cross-venue analysis, offering market participants insights into market structure and performance metrics.
The JSE data sets will complement BMLL’s existing coverage of more than seven years of historic data spanning global equities, ETFs and futures across 65+ trading venues. And by using BMLL’s data and analytics capabilities, the JSE is now able to evidence the quality of execution against a global, independently verified peer set.
FINBOURNE Selected by Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb to Build Fixed Income Consolidated Tape
Following a closely fought tender process against a number of industry peers, FINBOURNE Technology has been selected as the technology infrastructure provider for the Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb initiative to build a consolidated tape (CT) for fixed income in Europe.
In a media statement, the company said it had spent significant time collaborating with capital markets firms, regulators and industry bodies, to collectively understand the data, its quality and how to deliver a resilient and practical CT to the market.
Eventus Launches Anti-Money Laundering Solution, Validus AML
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has launched Validus AML, a new end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) platform aimed at helping firms in both the traditional finance and digital asset space combat financial crime. The cloud-based solution combines a signals-based approach to behaviour detection with rules-based logic and advanced data analytics.
Validus AML will offer a full spectrum of detection, workflow and case management tools for current and new clients, enabling them to reduce financial and regulatory risk, identify illicit financial behaviours and further streamline their use of external vendors on critical compliance functions.
With Intelligence Introduces New Offering for Allocators
With Intelligence, the investment intelligence data provider, is expanding its offering with a new service designed exclusively for allocators, Allocate With. By blending ‘pre-event’ reporting on the latest market moves with detailed insights, it aims to provide allocators with highly intuitive information to enhance their allocation experience.
Allocate With users will receive access to focused content, including allocator investment actions, asset allocation calls, and key people moves. The service will also provide additional information around alternative asset management, including product development and launches, high-level fund summaries, standout positive or negative performances, curated indices and new strategies.
Iress Partners with Centroid, Providing Real-Time Market Data
Iress, the financial software, services and technology company, is partnering with Centroid Solutions, specialists in risk management, bridging and execution engines, to bring real-time pricing data and trading APIs to Centroid’s client base. The collaboration will enable Centroid’s clients to gain real-time market data from global markets via Iress.
Powered by Iress’s ConsolidatedFEED API, Centroid can now offer its clients an enhanced, end-to-end solution for pricing and trading exchange traded products. Iress’s API data and trading solutions have been fully integrated into Centroid Bridge, a Liquidity Management and Order Execution Engine.