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ION Links Up with Trumid for Credit Markets eTrading
Trading solutions vendor ION Markets has upgraded its connectivity to Trumid, an electronic bond trading platform, to support Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client negotiation protocol, through the ION Credit solution. The upgrade, which builds on previous versions of Trumid supporting axe contribution and post-trade functionalities, now provides access to diverse market data sources, automation…
Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
Intelligent Machine Readable News – How to Get a Signal from the Noise
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trading firms seeking competitive advantage. It offers opportunities to turn unstructured data into actionable insight that can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment, but also raises challenges such as information sourcing, timing and contextualisation. A recent A-Team Group…
A-Team Webinar: Opportunities of New Approaches to Electronic Trading
In today’s capital markets environment, front-office traders face a number of challenges, not least of which are high costs, shrinking margins, increased regulatory oversight, and a multiplicity of siloed, often-legacy applications on the trading desk that can hamper workflows. Within this environment, firms need to be able to rapidly adapt: to the evolving needs of…
Recorded Webinar: Opportunities of new approaches to electronic trading
Challenged by legacy systems, less than ideal workflows and high costs, front-office trading teams lack the ability to adapt to clients’ evolving needs around integration, speed and multi-asset capabilities. They are also challenged by a capital markets environment characterised by legacy systems, shrinking margins and increased regulatory scrutiny. While these problems cause considerable friction in…
Nasdaq Partners with AWS to Build Cloud-Enabled Capital Markets Infrastructure
US exchange operator Nasdaq plans to move its North American markets to the cloud, starting with its Nasdaq MRX options market, under a multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the intention of building what it calls the next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure for financial markets. Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS follows last year’s launch…
A-Team Webinar: Integrating Intelligent Machine-Readable News
Machine-readable news technology, which enables trading and investment firms to process unstructured news data in a way that it can be added to the investment process, has become a powerful tool for firms seeking a competitive edge in today’s markets, as it can help firms derive sentiment, which in turn can be used to generate…
Recorded Webinar: Integrating Intelligent Machine Readable News
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenals of trading and investment firms seeking competitive advantage. It turns unstructured data into actionable insight and can be used, for example, to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment. In turn, it can inform quant strategies and predictive models. While machine readable news…
SmartTrade Adds to FX Capabilities with Purchase of TickTrade
French trading software company smartTrade has acquired Toronto-based TickTrade, a specialist in foreign exchange trading and payments technology. The transaction is aimed at positioning smartTrade to offer comprehensive solutions for the FX marketplace globally. SmartTrade already offers electronic trading and liquidity management solutions for firms trading in FX, fixed-income and other asset classes. TickTrade’s focus…
Avelacom Broadens Partnership with Singapore Exchange and Reduces Latencies
Low-latency connectivity and infrastructure provider Avelacom has broadened its partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX), adding a colocation capability. Avelacom’s new server rack will be situated next to SGX’s core matching engine, providing round-trip network latency of less than 20 microseconds, which Avelacom claims is the fastest in the market. Avelacom has partnered with SGX since…