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Recorded Webinar: Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud
Migration of financial apps and data to the cloud is well underway as financial institutions take the opportunity to cut the cost of running systems on premise, scale as and when required, and spin up test environments quickly and inexpensively. Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud is a different and more difficult proposition….
Vela Expands on Plans to Extend Reach of SuperFeed and Add New Data Types
Vela’s investment in its SuperFeed market data feed will extend the feed’s reach and add new data types, but what is the rationale behind the roadmap? We caught up with Vela CEO Jen Nayar to find out more. While SuperFeed already delivers high-quality normalised real-time market data and offers a blend of fast delivery and…
Sensiple Partners with TNS to Bring its MiFID II Compliance Solution to Frankfurt’s FR2
New Jersey-based banking technology specialist Sensiple Inc has partnered with communications giant Transaction Network Services (TNS) to bring its global analytical platform Setrega to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt, further boosting the city’s reputation as a connectivity hub. Over the next five years Sensiple anticipates Europe to be one of its biggest growth areas…
Blaze Portfolio Partners Itiviti to Access NYFIX Services
Blaze Portfolio, a provider of scalable investment portfolio rebalancing and real-time trade order management software, has joined Itiviti’s Global Alliance Program, giving clients access to Itiviti’s NYFIX suite of services including a FIX connectivity network, monitoring and execution reporting. Blaze is also using NYFIX Matching, Itiviti’s post-trade solution that streamlines affirmation, allocation and confirmation matching…
Addressing the Data Issues of Best Execution Under MiFID II and Other Global Regulations
By Peter Lawrey, CEO at Chronicle Software. Regulated trading systems need to record the reasons behind every decision they make with minimal impact on performance. Chronicle Software has worked with investment banks and hedge funds to deliver trading services with a record everything model and low microsecond latencies. Today’s more stringent regulatory environment is placing…
Equinix Takes Platform Approach to Solving Client Problems
Equinix is developing a platform-based approach to solving client problems. The platform will host next-generation services and continues the company’s journey, which started in 1998 with the offer of data centres and moved on to provide solutions including interconnection and cloud services, as well as a focus on developing a capital markets ecosystem. The modular…
Sensiple Partners TNS to Bring MiFID II Compliance Solution to Frankfurt
Capital markets specialist Sensiple is bringing its regtech product SETREGA for MiFID II, SFTR and EMIR compliance and reporting to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt as part of an agreement with Transaction Network Services (TNS). Sensiple will use TNS’s managed hosting, colocation and connectivity service to give market participants fast, secure and efficient access…
Trading Technologies Adds Colocated Execution and Connectivity at ICE Data Centre in Basildon
Trading Technologies International (TT) has added colocated execution and client connectivity services at the ICE Data Services European Liquidity Centre in Basildon, UK, to its global trading infrastructure offering. The expansion to Basildon provides TT’s global user base with the lowest-latency direct market access to ICE’s European derivatives markets through the TT platform, and also…
Anova Partners NovaSparks to Deliver Sub Microsecond Market Data Processing Latency
Anova Financial Networks, an international carrier and market data provider, has partnered NovaSparks, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, to provide customers with an optimised and best-of-breed market data service connecting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to the New Jersey Equity Triangle. The service, MicroFeed, deploys NovaSparks’ NovaTick ticker plant that conflates…
Pico Reaches Agreement to Acquire Corvil, Plans Corvil-as-a-Service
Pico has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Corvil, a deal that will create a powerhouse providing managed trading technology services underpinned by sophisticated real-time performance analytics. The acquisition will combine Pico’s trading technology services with Corvil’s performance monitoring and analytics products to help clients gain greater insight into Pico’s managed electronic trading environments. Existing…