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Market Data Invoice and Inventory Managed Services
Financial institutions are subscribing to an ever-growing list of information services in their efforts to keep abreast of increasingly complex global markets. This is adding to the burden of managing relationships with existing data vendors, whose licensing agreements and invoices are also growing in complexity. Firms’ appetite for cloud-delivered services and the trend toward working…
A-Team Webinar: A Checklist for Migrating Market Data to the Cloud
As firms and data vendors increasingly look into migrating their market data infrastructures towards the cloud, which types of data are best suited to cloud delivery and what are the business use cases? What kind of cloud options are available and how can firms best utilise them? And what challenges do they face along the…
Recorded Webinar: Approaches to migrating market data to the cloud to drive agility in trading operations
Market data in the cloud is an attractive proposition in terms of reducing the cost of on premise servers and storage, and moving into a more agile and flexible data delivery environment. It is also well suited to working from home, the fall-back of many financial institutions during lockdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But…
A-Team Group Names 2021 TradingTech Insight Europe Award Winners
A-Team Group today announced the winners of its TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. This year’s awards included two special editor’s awards. The Editor’s Recognition Award for Best Trading Technology Practitioner…
Xilinx Seeks to Democratise FPGA in Trading with Accelerated Algo Framework
FPGA pioneer Xilinx has launched what it reckons is the industry’s first hardware-based algorithm trading solution stack in a bid to make FPGAs more accessible to the marketplace. Xilinx Accelerated Algorithmic Trading, a new algorithmic trading reference design, will provide traders, market data providers and algorithmic trading platforms with a modular and open-source solution, to…
First New York Deploys Eventus for Cloud-Based Trade Surveillance
First New York has implemented a cloud-based version of Eventus Systems’ Validus trade surveillance system to monitor its futures trading and investment activities, with a view to expanding the deployment to its equities and equity options trading business. According to Shawn Fischman, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at First New York, “As a multi-asset,…
Refinitiv Teams with MarketPsych to Launch ESG Analytics
Continuing its focus on adding capabilities with an ESG theme, Refinitiv has teamed up with Los Angeles-based MarketPsych to launch Refinitiv MarketPsych ESG Analytics to monitor perceptions of sustainability and ESG risk. The analytical tool draws upon news and social media monitoring to offer analysts and portfolio managers numerical insights into companies and countries of…
London’s Continued Future as a Global Financial Centre Assured in Post-Brexit Era
By John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, University of Birmingham Recent newspaper headlines have declared that ‘Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share trading hub’. This has been seen as another downside of the UK leaving the UK. Amsterdam has become Europe’s most important hub for trading shares with London pushed into second place….
Chronicle Integrates Latency-Optimised Messaging Framework with KX’s kdb+
London-based low-latency technology specialist Chronicle Software has developed an off-the-shelf integration between its Chronicle Queue messaging framework and KX’s kdb+ high-performance database in partnership with consultancy firm AquaQ. According to Chronicle CEO Peter Lawrey, over 80% of the Top 100 banks Globally use the company’s Enterprise or Open Source products. Many of these banks are…
A-Team Webinar to Address Challenges of Deploying Market Data in the Cloud
The past year has witnessed a surge in interest in co-opting cloud technologies as a sourcing, hosting and distribution mechanism for market data. Firms seeking to migrate their market data infrastructure to the cloud, however, face significant challenges, particularly in the context of real-time data for fast-moving markets. A-Team’s February 25 webinar – ‘Approaches to…