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Streams: The Way to Better Liquidity in the FX Markets
By Phil Weisberg, EVP of Strategic Planning and Partnerships, oneZero. Sourcing liquidity in foreign exchange trading is a herculean task for banks, one not helped by an ever-evolving thicket of global regulation and the complicated nature of FX infrastructure and trading. The traditional way of looking at how to provide the necessary liquidity has been…
Exegy and Vela Merge to Create Market Data and Execution Technology Powerhouse
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated solutions for market data and predictive analytics, and Vela, a market data and execution technology provider, have announced the merger of their business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $7.5 billion of capital commitments under management. Commercial terms of the…
McKay Brothers Launches Low-Latency Connectivity Between Chicago Hub and Asian Centres
Low-latency wireless networking specialist McKay Brothers International is now offering private bandwidth between the Chicago exchange data centre hub in Aurora, Illinois, and major trading venues in Asia, expanding the global reach of its low-latency connectivity services. End points McKay offers in Asia include Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. For ultra-low latency circuits, the…
Push Technology Launches Diffusion Quick Start Pack to Shorten Event-Driven Development Cycles
California-based Push Technology, a data streaming and messaging solutions provider, has launched the Diffusion Quick Start Pack, a four to six week professional services engagement designed to significantly shorten the time it takes developers to deploy a production-ready application on the company’s Diffusion Intelligent Event-Driven Platform. As part of the package, the Diffusion software, worth…
Why the Future of FX is in the Cloud
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. The momentum behind cloud in financial services is building, and quickly. With big names such as IBM moving into the space, it signals that this is the future of financial markets infrastructure. Looking specifically at FX, there are many reasons to believe that firms are shifting towards this…
Glue42 Teams with Cloud9 to Integrate Voice Trading into Desktop Applications
London-based desktop automation specialist Glue42 has partnered with voice communication and analytics provider Cloud9 Technologies to deliver a full suite of voice trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace. The partnership aims to provide users with remote access to all trading floor connectivity and services, as well as secure access to voice data, counterparties and regulatory…
Navigating the Post-Brexit Trading Landscape
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. It’s now almost four months since the UK exited the EU, and from a trading and market infrastructure perspective, a clearer picture of the post-Brexit landscape is starting to emerge, although there are still many uncertainties that lie ahead. How have market participants, venue operators and their supporting ecosystem…
Lombard Odier Integrates smartTrade’s LiquidityFX to Offer Enhanced FX Trading Services to its Clients
As part of a strategic review aimed at modernising its technology infrastructure and fostering innovation, Swiss bank Lombard Odier & Co. has integrated smartTrade’s LiquidityFX electronic trading platform with its own proprietary wealth management platform, G2, to offer tailored FX trading functionality to its private, institutional and third-party clients. According to David Vincent, smartTrade CEO,…
Broadridge Strikes at Front Office with $2.5 Billion Acquisition of Itiviti
In an all-cash transaction valued at €2.143 billion (approximately $2.5 billion), US-based Broadridge Financial Services this week agreed to acquire Scandinavian trading and connectivity solutions provider Itiviti from owner Nordic Capital. The deal will significantly expand Broadridge’s Capital Markets franchise by extending into the front office and strengthening its multi-asset capabilities. The fit looks like…
IPSX Creates Integrated Technology Framework Ahead of First Admission
UK-based IPSX, which describes itself as the world’s first regulated stock exchange dedicated to real estate assets, has pulled together an integrated technology environment and a set of standardised data workflows ahead of its first ‘Intention to Float’ (ITF) on its IPSX Wholesale market, scheduled for next month. IPSX has been working with a plethora…