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Avelacom Appoints Timothy Wong as VP of Sales in APAC and Opens Hong Kong Office
Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider, has appointed Timothy Wong as VP of Sales for the APAC region. Wong joins from Xenith IG (formerly Superloop Asia) and brings over 15 years of experience working in data and network systems across sales, business development and technology. In addition, the company has…
Pico Launches Test Lab to Enable Replication of Real-World Trading Environments
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics vendor, has launched the Pico Performance Lab, offering high-performance testing resources to financial services firms. The Lab provides customers with the ability to implement, simulate and test Pico’s full-stack trading technology solution, including infrastructure, connectivity, market data, trading software, critical timing services and Corvil Analytics. The Lab…
ATB Financial Adopts smartTrade as end-to-End FX Platform
Canadian financial institution ATB Financial has adopted smartTrade as its client-facing FX platform. The firm sought a digital platform with sophisticated pre-trade, trade, post-trade and payments workflows, packaged in an easy-to-use format with integrated sales tools. ATB cited smartTrade’s connectivity to liquidity providers, its support capabilities and the company’s integration experience as reasons for selecting…
Adaptive Launches Aeron Open-Source Community and Announces Aeron Premium
Adaptive Financial Consulting, the electronic trading technology solutions provider, has announced the next phase of development for its Aeron platform, which Adaptive acquired in February 2022, when it bought Real Logic. Since the acquisition, Adaptive has doubled the size of the Aeron engineering team. To continue with its commitment to the open-source Aeron technology, Adaptive…
OSTTRA Enhances Network to Provide Real-Time Visibility of Eurex ETD Trades
OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions company, is enhancing its network to give market participants a real-time view into the status of Exchange Traded Derivative (ETD) trades cleared through Eurex. The enhanced connectivity, scheduled to go live in March 2023, will enable Eurex to send investment managers booking confirmations for their allocations via OSTTRA ClientLink for…
Iress Partners with Megaport to Provide Global Cloud Connectivity for Market Data
Iress, the financial software, services and technology company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Megaport, a global Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to provide additional connectivity between Iress and all major public cloud service providers (CSPs), including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The partnership will enable Iress clients to directly access global markets from…
LSEG Agrees to Acquire Risk Management Provider Acadia
Following its acquisitions of MayStreet and Tora earlier this year, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has now turned its sights on the derivatives post trade space by agreeing to acquire Acadia, a provider of derivatives margin processing and risk and optimisation services. Acadia, established in 2009, provides risk management, margining and collateral services to global…
Pico Launches Corvil Cloud Analytics
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics provider, has expanded its flagship monitoring platform into the cloud with the launch of Corvil Cloud Analytics. Pico’s Corvil Analytics is already one of the most widely used platforms for extracting and correlating performance intelligence from networked environments, typically deployed by banks, exchanges, electronic market makers, quantitative…
Avelacom Launches One-Stop Access to Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX)
Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider, has launched a one-stop shop for low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and market data solutions for pre-trade and execution on Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX), the pan-European equity derivatives marketplace. Avelacom’s point-of-presence (PoP) in Equinix LD4 is now directly connected to CEDX’s infrastructure. Avelacom’s PoP…
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems Collaborate to Deliver Collateral Optimisation Solution
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems, a post-trade processing provider that uses distributed ledger technology (DLT), have announced a collaboration to integrate Baton’s Core-Collateral solution into BNY Mellon’s collateral management platform. This will enable mutual clients to optimise portfolio allocations and accelerate the mobilisation of cash and securities collateral across both uncleared and cleared margin obligations…