TradingTech Insight Data Delivery, Cloud & Managed Services The latest content from across the platform
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…
Practitioners Discuss Use of Cloud Technologies for Signal Extraction
Capital markets firms’ appetite for cloud technologies is growing apace, driven by the promise of improved efficiency, reduced costs, faster development of new products and services, and the ability to do all of this at scale. Cloud usage within the financial markets is growing across a wide range of business areas. Firms are exploring how…
The Deal is Done – LSEG Completes Acquisition of Refinitiv
A big day in the City last Friday as the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) completed its all-share acquisition of Refinitiv first mooted back in July 2019. The acquisition is expected to create a leading, UK-headquartered, global financial market infrastructure provider with a strong data and analytics business, significant capital market capabilities across multiple asset…
Crux Informatics Closes $36 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Growth
New York-based Crux Informatics has raised $36 million of new funding from its existing investors, which include Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Two Sigma. The financial data delivery platform operator, founded in 2017, has also announced two new products: Crux Protect and Crux Wrangle. Crux specialises in providing a high-scale, fast, and cost-effective data…