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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…
Iress Creates API Data and Trading Solutions Team
Trading technology provider Iress has launched a dedicated API Data and Trading Solutions team to support demand for the company’s market data and infrastructure solutions. The company says the development marks the completion of the full integration of the QuantHouse business, which it acquired in May 2019. The new team will support clients using Iress’s…
TNS Strengthens Backbone for European Equities Exchanges
TNS, the financial markets infrastructure provider, has invested in strengthening its European backbone and data solutions, offering ultra-low latency TNS Layer 1 in-datacentre architecture, and expanded market data from all major European equities exchanges. The company has also added Wiener Boerse AG, which operates the stock exchanges in Vienna and Prague, to its market data…
Private Equity Firm 7RIDGE to Acquire Trading Technologies, Installing Todd as CEO
Derivatives connectivity and trading platform operator Trading Technologies International (TT) is to be acquired by 7RIDGE, a London-based private equity firm run by ex-Deutsche Boerse CEO Carsten Kengeter. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is backed by two of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges, Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Cboe Global Markets. The deal with 7RIDGE…
Pico Launches 100 Gbps Corvil 10000 Performance Monitoring appliance
Markets technology and infrastructure provider Pico has released its new flagship appliance – the Corvil 10000 – which boosts the capacity of its performance monitoring and analytics capabilities to handle 100 Gigabits/second deployments. The development follows the release last spring of 100 Gbps capability for Corvil Analytics’ performance monitoring solutions, and is aimed at meeting…
A-Team Webinar to Explore Machine Readable News Integration
Intelligent machine readable news, which turns unstructured news data into actionable insight, and can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations, evaluate sentiment and inform quant strategies and predictive models, has become a powerful tool in the arsenals of trading and investment firms seeking a competitive edge. While machine readable news feeds typically provide…
Do Proximity and Resilience Have to be a Trade-Off in Trading?
By Mark White, Manager – Financial Markets and Fintech, Telehouse. Are proximity and resilience a trade-off in trading? In the quest for speed and proximity, many banks have services hosted within an exchange. Whether this is as trading or matching engines; to support connectivity for global networks through a point of presence or an access…