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The Broker Club and ACI UK Collaborate on Programme of Education and Community Activities
The Broker Club, the industry network for broker firms within capital markets and ACI UK, the community for individuals involved in FX markets, have agreed to collaborate on a programme of education and community events, for the mutual benefit of their respective member communities. The industry associations will also offer discounted membership to individuals and…
Benefiting from Advanced Execution in US Treasury Markets
The expanded footprint of electronic non-bank liquidity providers (NLPs) and established broker/dealers, as well as the proliferation of electronic aggregation platforms, are all adding complexity to fixed-income markets, which as a result are starting to resemble established electronic markets like equities and foreign exchange. For market participants, this has added to the challenge of sourcing…
Integral Deploys FX Workflow Technology at Singapore SG1
Integral, technology provider to the buy-side, has announced that the IntegralFX service is now available in Singapore’s SG1 data centre, enabling local clients in Singapore to deploy pricing engines, algos, connectivity and distribution tools, as well as making prices, obtaining liquidity and hosting algorithms in a low latency configuration. Integral’s platform provides banks, brokers and…
Pico Expands RedlineFeed to APAC with the Addition of Two Chinese Exchanges
Following its acquisition of Redline Trading Solutions earlier this year, Pico has expanded RedlineFeed’s global coverage beyond European and US markets into APAC, with the addition of normalised market data for Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The service is available at Pico’s colocation facility at the Hosting Services Data Centre of…
Top 10 Cloud-Based Trading Environments in 2022
In a time when the drive to shift to cloud-based trading environments is at an all time high due to the covid-19 pandemic, it is useful to look at which firms offer the best solutions. A cloud-based trading environment offers flexibility and business continuity by allowing traders to work from anywhere. Gone are the days…
Adaptive Acquires Real Logic; Thompson and Montgomery Join Management Team
Electronic trading consultancy Adaptive Financial Consulting has acquired Real Logic, a low-latency trading technology development firm founded by high-performance computing specialist Martin Thompson, who will be joining Adaptive’s management team as Head of Platform. Prior to setting up Real Logic in 2011, Thompson was CTO of financial exchange LMAX, and is seen as one of…
Pico Launches Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse for Real-Time Execution Analytics
Trading technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has launched the Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse, which aims to provide visibility into transaction execution quality to correlate client trading behaviour with execution path and counterparty performance. The solution, offered as a standalone software product, streams nanosecond-timestamped data from Corvil network instrumentation, to deliver real-time visibility at a…
Avelacom Offers New PoP at Bursa Malaysia
Infrastructure and data solutions provider Avelacom has deployed a new point-of-presence (PoP) at Bursa Malaysia, to extend its network footprint into Malaysia capital markets. Avelacom recently set up a PoP in Bangkok at the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), extended its partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX), and became a Japan Exchange Group (JPX) arrownet-Global Partner…
APG Asset Management to Deploy IHS Markit’s ThinkFolio on AWS for Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
Dutch pension provider APG Asset Management, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands with €633 billion in assets under management, plans to transform front-office operations for its multi-asset portfolio globally using IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment management and trading system. Under the arrangement, IHS Markit will deploy and manage the infrastructure, as well as the thinkFolio…
Exegy Sees ‘Tectonic Shift’ as Sales Jump 50% due to Pandemic Volatility and ‘Retail Revolution’
Following its May 2021 merger with Vela Trading Systems, high-performance market data and trading technology specialist Exegy Inc. says a ‘tectonic shift’ in the marketplace is driving demand for its expanded portfolio of solutions. Among the factors now triggering investments in new data and trading technologies are the leap in volatility sparked by the global…