TradingTech Insight Brief
Push Technology Adds Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities and New REST Adapter to Diffusion Cloud
Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology has enhanced its Diffusion Cloud offering with the addition of a new REST adapter and improved data monitoring capabilities.
The new REST adapter enables development teams to transform existing APIs into streaming data feeds, without the need to re-architect backend systems. The monitoring improvements now makes it easier for Ops teams to understand how their Diffusion Cloud services are being used, identify anomalous behavior, and pro-actively respond to any potential issues before they impact end users.
Parameta and PeerNova Launch ClearConsensus for Independent Price Valuation
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova, a data analytics and management company, have partnered to launch ClearConsensus™, a transparent consensus network for Independent Price Valuation. The service aims to improve business resilience and regulatory response at global banks, by addressing the risk environments for price valuation and control groups.
ClearConsensus combines Parameta’s Evaluated Price (EvP) with PeerNova’s Cuneiform® technology platform to directly introduce observable transactions data via the EvP, while maintaining participant anonymity and data privacy. Real-time analytics help identify market trends to optimise capital allocation and mitigate risk.
Genesis Global Enhances Platform to Streamline Data Integration, Reporting and Full-stack Application Development
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets, has announced a number of platform enhancements designed to it faster and easier for software developers to build new applications and enhance legacy systems.
The enhancements include a new low-code language for creating Genesis applications, streamlined data integration capabilities, a new reporting module, and Oracle database support.
Trading Technologies Launches Connectivity to NSE IFSC-SGX Connect for International Nifty Equity Derivatives Trading
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions has begun offering clients access to the popular Nifty equity derivatives through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, a new joint initiative between Singapore Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India launched on July 29.
As one of the first technology providers to offer international market participants access to the NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, TT is giving global banks and other major financial institutions that use the TT® platform seamless access to Nifty equity derivatives alongside products from more than 50 other major international markets, including SGX Group.
QuantCube Launches Liquefied Natural Gas Commodity Trade Indicator
Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology has launched a new QuantCube Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Commodity Trade Indicator, which aims to provide supply side commodity and energy futures traders with crucial insights at least one month in advance of official data, by tracking the import and export in volume of Liquefied Natural Gas.
Harnessing automatic identification system data to track the position of tanker ships in real time, the LNG Indicator is a significant addition to QuantCube’s suite of real-time international commodity trade indicators, which include Crude Oil, Iron Ore, and Coal.
Genesis Receives $20m in New Investments from Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, has followed its $200 million Series C funding announced in February with $20 million in new investments from Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi.
In 2021, Genesis tripled its revenue and the size of its team. Financial services firms use Genesis across the software value chain to automate spreadsheet processes, enhance existing systems, replace legacy technology and to build new, robust first-time applications.
Horizon Partners with Paris-Saclay University to Fund Financial Research
Horizon Software, the market making, agency trading and algo trading technology provider, funding a research project in partnership with the university of Paris-Saclay-Ecole Doctorale de Mathématiques Hadamard.
The study will focus on optimal execution, measurement, and control of liquidity risk, aiming to find a way to beat algo execution benchmarks. The three-year research project will be led by Yadh Hafsi and supervised by Horizon’s CTO, Olivier Masdebrieu, and two professors from Paris-Saclay, Vathana Ly Vath and Etienne Chevalier.
Northern Trust Launches Enhanced Liquidity Management Data Tool
Northern Trust has launched an enhanced liquidity management data tool in its Front Office Solutions platform as part of its initiative to deliver customisable solutions to Asset Owners. The web-based tool aims to give asset owners better control over their liquidity through unified and customised reporting.
The new web-based Liquidity Management module offers users a comprehensive view of their portfolio’s liquidity based on several factors, including private equity real-time data and expected cash flows as well as complex hedge fund contractual terms and conditions.
ING Spins Out Pyctor Digital Assets Post-Trade Technology to GMEX Group
European banking group ING has spun out Pyctor, its institutional-grade custody solution for the digital asset ecosystem, to GMEX Group (‘GMEX’), the digital business and technology solutions provider for exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. The Pyctor solution, incubated in ING Neo’s Amsterdam innovation lab, provides secure digital custody and transactional network services for a range of digital assets, as well as delivering interoperability between permissioned and public blockchains.
GMEX CEO Hirander Misra has been appointed Chairman of Pyctor, which is offered as a service within GMEX. ING will continue its relationship with Pyctor and collaborate through ING’s digital assets team.
TNS Launches Low-Latency Trading Services in JSE Colocation Facility
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has announced that it is now directly connected to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from within the JSE colocation facility, providing managed hosting services, Layer 1 order routing and market data connectivity. The company will serve as a vendor of record for South Africa’s principal stock exchange, offering JSE market data and order entry access to key equities and derivatives markets in Europe and the US.
JSE operates the main equities and derivatives markets in South Africa and is the listing exchange for a range of multinational companies. In addition to the equities market, JSE operates a derivatives exchange offering equity index futures, currency futures, interest rate futures and commodity derivatives.