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.

Synechron Offers Data Monetisation Accelerator Programme

Digital transformation consulting firm Synechron has released a data monetisation accelerator programme that offers a suite of building block solutions designed to help asset managers and financial institutions unlock the full potential of their data. The Synechron tools leverage analytics and derive insights to identify revenue opportunities and implement key strategies for monetising data, while preserving data privacy, security, governance and management.

Quantexa Completes Acquisition of Aylien

Quantexa, a player in the decision intelligence market, has completed the acquisition of Aylien, an AI, NLP and ML company based in Dublin. Founded in 2012, Aylien applies advanced AI to unstructured data to create a rich, real-time, and reliable stream of actionable insights. The combination of Aylien’s AI and NLP, and Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform, will provide a step towards Quantexa’s vision of offering users of its platform full context of their business operations by unifying the structured and unstructured world.

Rimes Offers Clients ESG Book Data and Scores

Clients of data management solutions provider Rimes can now access ESG Book’s sustainability data. ESG Book, which was created by asset manager and data provide Arabesque along with an alliance of financial institution, will offer its ESG data via Rimes could-based platform. The datasets cover more than 50,000 companies, including scores.

EFAMA Says Green Labelling Plan is Flawed

Industry body, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), has taken aim at one of the European Union’s regulators over proposed labelling laws for green funds. EFAMA said the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) recommendation for a numerical threshold system for grading funds’ sustainability characteristics would not eliminate greenwashing. Its offered alternative calls for an evidence-based assessment of funds’ objectives and strategies.

Morningstar Unveils New SDG-Aligned Benchmarks

A new set of indexes created by Morningstar will enable investors to put their money into companies that are aligned with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDFs). The research giant will include in the Morningstar Global Sustainable Activities Involvement Indexes (SAI) only companies that also committing a substantial proportion of their revenue to one or more impact themes.

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.