Maybank Sekuritas Deploys Horizon’s Warrant Market Making Platform in Indonesia

Horizon Software has announced that Maybank Sekuritas, a financial services company, has started using Horizon’s platform for Warrant Market Making in Indonesia. The platform aims to improve the trading experience by combining advanced technology with market expertise, offering features like seamless execution, comprehensive risk management, and real-time market monitoring.

Maybank Sekuritas has so far introduced 30 structured warrants on the platform.

KX Adds kdb Insights and kdb Insights Enterprise to Google Cloud Marketplace

KX, a providers of vector and time-series data management, has announced the native availability of kdb Insights and kdb Insights Enterprise on Google Cloud Marketplace. This is a significant milestone in KX’s partnership with Google Cloud and will allow customers to accelerate AI, machine learning, IoT automation, and generative AI-powered applications on Google Cloud.

Ashok Reddy, CEO at KX, says: “Combining our real time analytics and our vector database with the elasticity and scalability of Google Cloud infrastructure will help enterprises rapidly accelerate their journey towards more real time and effective business decision making.”

SDX Adopts Digital Token Identifier

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) had become the first private distributed ledger technology (DLT) based financial market infrastructure to adopt the Digital Token Identifier Foundation’s ISO 24165 Digital Token Identifier (DTI) standard. The DTI standard provides a unique identifier for digital ledgers, tokens, and cryptocurrencies, and has been recommended by ESMA as a risk management measure for the EU’s DLT Pilot programme.

ESG Book Chosen to Support Data Project in Asia

ESG Book will provide data to an Asian-based project to address gaps in the sustainability data record. ESG Book, a open data initiative led by vendor Arabesque and backed by a dozen major banks, will be among providers of information to the Sustainable Finance Institute Asia’s (SFIA) Single Access Point for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative. ASIA is a collaboration between multiple stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region.

MSCI and Google to Harness Generative AI in ESG Data Offering

MSCI and Google Cloud are to jointly create generative AI solutions in an expansion of a collaborative effort to build a data marketplace for ESG investors. MSCI intends to offer the technology driven by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, along with its climate tools BigQuery Geospatial and Earth Engine.

Tradeweb Completes A$125 Million Acquisition of Australian Trading Platform Yieldbroker

Tradeweb Markets Inc., the global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has finalised its A$125 million all-cash acquisition of Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform specialising in government bonds and interest rate derivatives for Australia and New Zealand.

Both companies were early pioneers in bringing technology to fixed income markets. The acquisition will provide Yieldbroker’s clients access to Tradeweb’s broader global marketplace and advanced technology, while Tradeweb’s clients will gain entry into the expanding bond and derivatives markets in Australia and New Zealand.

DMALINK Surpasses Funding Target, Bolstered by Bank Partnerships

UK-based institutional trading platform DMALINK has exceeded its funding goal of £425,000 on Seedrs, achieving a pre-money valuation of £17.3 million. The platform, which focuses on FX and crypto trading, has previously raised funds on Seedrs and is in partnership with several banks including Credit Agricole, Nomura, and Danske Bank.

DMALINK generates revenue through transaction fees and a subscription-based real-time market data service, offering “favourable trading conditions” by avoiding monthly terminal or integration fees.

IPC and Celoxica Deliver Connectivity & Risk Management to Tier 1 Investment Bank in Taiwan

IPC has teamed up with Celoxica to provide a Tier 1 Investment Bank in Taiwan with a fully managed colocation solution that improves Direct Market Access (DMA) and pre-trade risk management. The service uses IPC’s Connexus platform and is hosted in the CHT data centre. It promises more efficient market access and reduced trading latency in Taiwanese financial markets.

The collaboration integrates Connexus with Celoxica’s Market Access Gateway (MAG) platform, which supports trading across multiple asset classes, with ultra-low latency pre-trade risk management. The Investment Bank also gains cost efficiencies by moving from a capital to an operational expenditure model.

Executives Planning to Substantially Increase ESG Data Spend

ESG data demand is on the rise among portfolio managers, with the vast majority planning to substantially increase spending on the resource, according to a Bloomberg survey.

The financial data giant’s ESG Data Acquisition and Management Survey of more than 100 managers and executives found that 92 per cent would boost spending on ESG data by more than 10 per cent and almost a fifth would increase it by 50 per cent.

The survey found, however, that around half of respondents said that contending with new ESG content and managing multiple data feeds was a challenge.

Exegy Launches Advanced Ticker Plant for Optimised Options Market Data Processing

Exegy, the front-office trading solutions vendor, has introduced its next generation ticker plant, specifically designed for processing options market data. The new platform is capable of processing the entire OPRA feed on a single 2U server and offers a 2x reduction in latency compared to its predecessor.

As options trading volumes rise and with the new OPRA feed set to launch on October 9th, OPRA’s guidance states that participants should prepare for capacity of 120+ million messages per second following the expansion. Exegy’s FPGA-based appliance is designed to provide significantly higher throughput than software-based systems.