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Citi Makes Strategic Investment in Low-Code Specialist Genesis, While Deploying Company’s Application Platform
Citi’s Markets FinTech Investments and Spread Products Investment Technologies (Sprint) groups have teamed up to make a strategic investment in Genesis, whose Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) allows rapid and modular development of trading-related and other applications. At the same time, Citi will deploy Genesis’ LCAP to complement its mainstream application development methodologies in the hopes…
Canada’s ITG Implements Cloud-Based Trade Surveillance from OneMarketData
Canadian brokerage Independent Trading Group (ITG) has implemented OneMarketData’s cloud-hosted OneTick Trade Surveillance solution to ensure compliance with regulatory monitoring requirements in the face of the surging volumes and volatility that have accompanied Covid-19 pandemic. According to Nick Savona, chief compliance officer at ITG, the brokerage outgrew its legacy PositionWatch system, which it continues to…
Chronicle Adds Tier 1 Bank, North American Exchange to Client Roster
Low-latency trading solutions specialist Chronicle Software says its flexible commercial model was a key factor in two new client implementations announced this past week. The customer deployments – at a major global bank and North American exchange operator – involve deployment of Chronicle’s FIX engine solution, underpinned by the company’s high-performance messaging platform. According to…
GoldenSource’s Quant Workbench Targets Quants and Analysts with Direct Access to Pricing and Metadata
Enterprise data platform provider GoldenSource’s new Quant Workbench offering allows trading firms’ quantitative research teams to add pricing and reference data to their analytical and research models. The new service effectively creates a centralised store for these data types, reducing quants’ need to track down the information from multiple spreadsheets or downloads. According to Charlie…
Talking Trading Tech with Andrew Delaney: Refinitiv Teams with Microsoft for Cloud-Hosted Analytics
Hard on the heels of last week’s news that FactSet is partnering with AWS for cloud-hosted market data provision, Refinitiv has announced a new strategic relationship with Microsoft that features new products and services based on the Microsoft Azure cloud capability. The development is the latest of a series of moves into cloud-based hosting and…
Recorded Webinar: Embedding AI & Machine Learning into your trading operations
It’s no secret that AI and Machine Learning are changing the landscape of the trading industry. As these tools and techniques become more mainstream, their availability to even the smallest of financial firms is becoming a more viable proposition. From speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) to deep learning algorithms and predictive analytics, these…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Is FactSet’s Move to AWS a Market Data Nirvana?
FactSet’s announcement this week of its plan to migrate its real-time ticker plant to Amazon Web Services may represent the boldest statement of intent yet with respect to cloud delivery of market data. And things seem to be accelerating rapidly in this department. Recent weeks have seen SIX launch a strategic partnership with Xignite to…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: What’s the Real Deal on AI & Ml for Trading?
My first brush with artificial intelligence was in 1988, when the publication I was working on – the now-legendary Trading Systems Technology (I only recently broke the mug…) – ran an item on how some big Japanese bank in New York had built an ‘intelligent’ buy/sell signal engine based on neural networks. Fast forward to…
Recorded Webinar: How Financial Institutions can adjust to working in the New Normal
The very sudden impact of Covid-19 and resultant shutdown of physical sites has stress-tested financial institutions and vendors to their limits. Now banks and firms are slowly starting to re-open offices. But what will the new normal look like and what steps should you be taking now to make the most of this situation? This…
RoZetta Teams with GreenBirch to Help Firms Deploy Managed Analytical Services
Australia-based RoZetta Technology has partnered with London cloud implementation consultancy GreenBirch Group to help financial institutions design and deploy capital markets technology solutions drawing upon their combined expertise in data science, analytics and managed data services. RoZetta specialises in the use of data science and analytics for trading and other financial markets applications; GreenBirch helps…