Santander Bank Polska Deploys Horizon for Market Making on Global Connect

Horizon Software, the electronic trading solutions provider, is extending its partnership with Santander by supporting Santander Brokerage Poland, a part of Santander Bank Polska, to introduce market makers onto Global Connect, the new equity market recently launched by the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with Horizon’s Platform for Market Making, connecting to the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Proprietary Trading Firms Plan to Increase Tech Spending in 2023, says Industry Report

Proprietary trading firms are increasing their technology budgets in anticipation of another strong year of trading in 2023, according to the latest Acuiti Proprietary Trading Management Insight Report, produced in partnership with Avelacom

The report surveyed over 100 senior proprietary trading executives from across the globe and found that 68% were planning above average technology budgets in 2023. Reflecting the importance of speed in times of volatile market conditions and droughts of liquidity, their stated focus areas will be improving latency, as well as connectivity to new markets.

EuroCCP Rebrands to Cboe Clear Europe

Pan-European clearing house EuroCCP, which was acquired by Cboe Global Markets in July 2020, has rebranded to Cboe Clear Europe with immediate effect. Under Cboe’s ownership, Cboe Clear Europe has enhanced its position as a leading pan-European cash equities clearing house, as well as diversifying into equity derivatives following the launch of Cboe’s pan-European derivatives exchange, Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX), in September 2021.

Cboe Clear Europe will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of the Cboe group, retaining a separate governance structure and management team.

With Intelligence Launches With HFM Data Service to Provide Actionable Insights on Hedge Fund Market

With Intelligence, the investment intelligence provider, has launch a new data service onto its data and insight platform. With HFM merges insights from the HFM ecosystem with those of EurekaHedge, alongside market insights from a team of specialist journalists, to provide rich data on investors, performance data on funds including indices, and mandates (RFPs).

The new With HFM service also offer a filterable dataset of investors’ intentions and preferences, to provide an actionable overview of the latest market moves.

Liquidnet Integrates Proprietary Trading Analytics into Equities Trading Application

Technology-driven agency execution specialist Liquidnet has announced the integration of the firm’s proprietary trading analytics into its equities trading application. Powered by Liquidnet Investment Analytics (IA), traders will now have access to personalised pre- and intra-trade analytics through real time alerts and intuitive visualizations within the Liquidnet equities application.

With this new workflow enhancement, Liquidnet aims to address the challenge of applying data analytics to high touch flow and hard to trade orders.

Vantage Launches UK Liquidity Service, Vantage Connect

In response to growing demand among its clients for bespoke trading solutions, Vantage, the international multi-asset broker and trading platform, is launching Vantage Connect, a liquidity solution for institutions and corporates in the UK.

The new product, which is customised according to clients’ needs across the full range of Vantage’s services, aims to help institutional clients to manage volatility effectively and make the most of market opportunities by leveraging Vantage’s liquidity pool to quickly buy and sell complex assets.

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.

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.

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.