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Controlling Market Data Usage and Costs in WFH Environments
The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the way financial services firms operate: with staff dispersed across numerous alternative sites or working from home, and many still requiring access to fee-liable market data and other financial information services in order to function. Data managers are struggling to control access to this data – facing the risk of…
Covid-19 is Impacting Banks’ Operational Resilience, Warns EBA
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a preliminary assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the EU banking sector, warning that operational resilience is now under pressure. “Following the outbreak of the pandemic, banks have activated their contingency plans, which have allowed them to keep their core functions broadly unaffected. However, the handling of…
New Fixnetix Chief Beeman Outlines Vision for Front-Office Lift-Out Offering
Jake Beeman, who took over as general manager of Fixnetix this month following the departure of Steve Williams, has arrived with the remit to expand on the company’s vision for front-office transformation, with a specific focus on data, analytics and infrastructure. Beeman took on his new role at Fixnetix on May 13, Prior to that…
Crosslake Fibre Strengthens US/Canada Connection with 165 Halsey Street Expansion
Crosslake Fibre, a telecoms operator specialising in connectivity between Canada and the US, has expanded its network into the 1.2 million square foot data center, colocation and telecom carrier hotel 165 Halsey Street, just 13 miles from Manhattan. The new network, which delivers sub-9 ms round trip delay (RTD) performance between Toronto and New York…
Colt Technology Lowers Latency on European Routes
Colt Technology Services, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has lowered the latency on its European PrizmNet routes, targeting the high frequency trading (HFT) needs of financial brokers, investment funds and banks, and FX-related applications. Following the firm’s recent investment in ultra-low latency PrizmNet infrastructure in Asia, Colt has now implemented next-generation Arista 7130 Layer…
Pico Taps Frank Troise as Co-CEO
Markets technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has named electronic trading veteran Frank Troise as co-CEO in what current chairman, CEO and founder Jarrod Yuster terms the latest step toward taking the company to the next level of growth. The move – which will tap Troise’s operational expertise to support Pico’s expansion across its target market…
TNS Launches New York Upgrade for Ultra-low Latency Offering
US data communications provider TNS (Transaction Network Services) has upgraded its network in three New York Area data centres with the TNSXpress Layer 1 solution to speed up delivery of market data from NYSE, CBOE, and Nasdaq. The TNSXpress Layer 1, a single hop architecture that is up to 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3…
Can the FX Industry Achieve ‘Business as Usual’ at these Most Unusual of Times
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer at Integral. As novel COVID-19 has swept the globe, financial institutions can still remain focussed on trying to operate ‘business as usual’ and serve their clients. But this continuity can be achieved largely in part with access to the right technology. We are facing the biggest black swan event…
Rapid Addition’s RA Platform 3.0 Address ‘Buy and Build’ Imperative
London-based trading technology provider Rapid Addition has released version 3.0 of its RA Platform, a middleware solution for handling electronic trading messaging, allowing firms to customise their trading connectivity set-ups to best suit their requirements. The new version aims to support firms’ growing tendency toward ‘buy and build’ as they seek to optimise their use…
TNS Adds Real Time HKEX Market Data to Its Global Offering
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has added real time market data from the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to its platform, allowing its customers to access the market data systems of the ninth largest stock exchange, and the 14th largest derivatives exchange, in the world. “Hong Kong is one of the world’s foremost financial centers,…