Broadridge Leverages Amazon Managed Blockchain for Private Market Hub Platform

Broadridge Financial Solutions, collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched the latest evolution of its Private Market Hub platform, in what the company claims to be the industry’s first deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market.

Broadridge Private Market Hub is a global, multi-jurisdictional and cloud-native platform for private equity workflow that serves as a central hub for internal and external communication, reporting, data visualization and auditability.

By replacing multiple systems and manual processes with a distributed ledger utilising Amazon Managed Blockchain, all participants will have real-time access to transparent and accurate data – a single, golden source of truth that will facilitate greater visibility and trust, according to the company.

FlexTrade Integrates BMLL Data Feed and Analytics into FlexTrader EMS

OEMS vendor FlexTrade Systems has integrated data and analytics from BMLL Technologies into its FlexTrader EMS, giving clients the ability to access data and enriched pre- and post-trade analytics from within the FlexTrader EMS blotter.

The BMLL Data Feed, which is pre-computed from granular, Level 3 order book data, is designed to provide market participants with actionable insights focused on market quality and execution performance, as well as available liquidity at different depths of the book. BMLL’s data and analytics can now be delivered directly into FlexTrader workflows via API, to help clients accelerate their research, optimise their trading strategies and generate alpha.

MayStreet Increases Asia-Pacific Coverage with 19 New Exchange Feeds

Market data technology and content provider MayStreet has added 19 new market feeds in the Asia-Pacific region to Market Data Lake, the company’s market data repository.

The new content includes real-time and historical consolidated, top-of-book and full depth-of-book data from the leading equity, derivatives, commodity and fixed income exchanges in the region, and largely completes the firm’s global, multi-asset coverage universe buildout announced last August.

With the addition of the new APAC exchange feeds to the Market Data Lake, MayStreet has also expanded its data center footprint globally.

Horizon Software Launches Composite Spreader to Automate Spread Execution

Electronic trading solutions vendor Horizon Software has launched a purpose-built Composite Spreader as part of its broader OMS roadmap, to automate the execution of multi-leg spreads. The product, which is now live and can be integrated with Horizon’s algo framework, provides clients with a user interface to define synthetic multi-leg spreads with a set of trading paramaters, which can then be executed automatically.

Horizon leveraged its proven algo technology and expertise in high frequency trading to develop the Composite Spreader, which is designed to respond rapidly to market movements, and comes with advanced safety features in case liquidity cannot be sourced.

McKay Brothers Launches Low-Latency Connectivity Between Chicago Hub and Asian Centres

Low-latency wireless networking specialist McKay Brothers International is now offering private bandwidth between the Chicago exchange data centre hub in Aurora, Illinois, and major trading venues in Asia, expanding the global reach of its low-latency connectivity services. End points McKay offers in Asia include Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. For ultra-low latency circuits, the company is leveraging its wireless expertise in combination with fibre wherever possible.

The company’s first hybrid wireless/fiber network in Asia – between Tokyo and Singapore – opened in 2016. Last year, McKay launched what it claimed to be the fastest link between Illinois and Busan, Korea, and has since expanded to offer connectivity to Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Equiduct Partners EOSE to Explore New Data Products

Equiduct, a retail focused pan-European exchange, has partnered EOSE, a market data specialist, to strengthen distribution of its market data products that offer a real-time view of pre-trade and post-trade data. EOSE will provide Equiduct with a team of data sales and business development professionals, allowing Equiduct to concentrate on developing core business strategies, while exploring new data products and routes to market. Equiduct says the partnership provides resource to drive growth and innovation in market data products, while ensuring it remains focused on delivering solutions to enhance the trading experience for its clients and end investors in Europe.

SIX Invests in Orenda to Offer Real-time, High-frequency ESG Scores

SIX is taking a majority stake in Orenda Software Solutions, a Canadian AI platform specialising in ESG and alternative data sets, and providing real-time, high-frequency ESG scores and insights into a company’s reputation to measure the sustainability and societal impact of an investment. Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX, says: “With Orenda we have found the right partner with unique expertise in alternative data sets, data science and ESG. As we bring our capabilities and the expertise of our teams together, we see a lot of opportunities to build new propositions supporting the growth of impact investing.”

Natwest Markets Taps ipushpull for PPQ Price Negotiation Tool

Natwest Markets has implemented ipullpull’s PPQ (Pushpull Quotes) for price negotiation of non-standard and complex trades. PPQ is a pre-trade workflow tool that automates the negotiation process between the buy and sell side. It uses messaging networks like Symphony and standardised syntax within private bilateral chats to allow trading and sales to communicate detailed pricing and quote information. Chatbots can interpret key data within those messages, display them within a custom application and allow the user to drive the workflow from a single screen. Data mapping transforms incoming and outgoing data into the required format, creating an extensible solution to interoperate between new and existing standards. The inclusion of structured data objects within messages, containing instrument definitions, event descriptions and a wealth of other metadata, can further aid automation of pre-trade workflow.

ION Continues Acquisition Spree with Purchase of Dash Financial

ION Investment Group – owner of such esteemed trading technology brands as Fidessa, Dealogic, Caplin, FfastFill, Iris Financial, OpenLink, FSS and others – has added another property to its portfolio, in the form of New York-based options trading tech specialist Dash Financial Technologies. ION has agreed to acquire Dash from private equity firm Flexpoint Ford. Jefferies LLC served as financial advisor to DASH and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Flexpoint Ford and Dash.

TA Associates Sells ITRS Stake to Montagu Private Equity

Montagu Private Equity has agreed to acquire a majority position in ITRS Group, a global provider of real-time monitoring and analytics software, from TA Associates, which will remain a minority holder alongside Montagu and Management. Financial terms were not disclosed but completion is expected next month, subject to regulatory approvals.London-headquartered ITRS Group has over 3,000 clients worldwide, including nine out of the ten Tier 1 investment banks. In September 2020 it acquired Uptrends, a Netherlands-based web performance monitoring solution, to strengthen its product suite.