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LDX Taps Exberry Matching Platform for Expansion Plans
The London Derivatives Exchange has selected newcomer Exberry to provide it with matching engine technology for its expansion into new asset classes and global markets. The deal is Exberry’s first; the company launched its multi-asset class platform in June. LDX plans to use Exberry’s platform to widen the range of asset classes it lists, from…
Equiduct Commits to Exactpro in Long-Term Software Testing Deal
Pan-European trading platform Equiduct has extended its master services agreement with Exactpro following a successful proof of concept (POC). Under the arrangement, Exactpro will provide functional testing of Equiduct’s trading software, including its Apex best execution solution for retail brokers. Established as one of the first multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) under the original MiFID regulation,…
Why Is Now the Time for the Financial Markets to Focus on Collaboration Compliance?
By Phil Fry, VP of Financial Compliance Product Strategy at Verint. The seismic impact of the pandemic has seen many banks and financial institutions ramp up their use of next-generation communication solutions, to assist their employees to work from home and alternative locations. During lockdowns, trades and client orders, that were traditionally executed at corporate sites, moved…
NICE Actimize Deploys New Xignite Microservices to Support Shift to Cloud
Financial crime, risk and compliance technology specialist NICE Actimize is using market data microservices from Xignite to support its initiative to move its real-time market data infrastructure into the cloud. The move underscores the growing interest among financial institutions in migrating mission-critical activities to the cloud in a bid to reduce on-premise overhead and take…
Recorded Webinar: The Transformation of Buy-Side Market Surveillance
Asset managers, hedge funds, insurance firms, and other buy-side firms globally are becoming more active in their approach to market surveillance, as regulatory pressure to up their game mounts. Buy-side firms are now building out their surveillance infrastructure as they seek to respond to the requirements posed by Dodd-Frank, MiFID II and the Market Abuse…
The Results Are In… Trading Tech Insight Awards USA 2020
The A-Team Group Trading Tech Insight Awards USA winners were announced this week in the second year of the North American edition, and while we were sad not to be able to hold our usual glittering reception to celebrate the winners, their achievement is no less redoubtable. US market practitioners and suppliers are facing unique…
Recorded Webinar: Financial Services Infrastructure in the Post-Covid Environment
The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken financial institutions’ working practices to the core. Trading volumes have exploded, with some venues recording more than 10X the usual volume of transactions. Volatility has raged, with the benchmark VIX index testing new highs. And nor are these one-offs; the impact has been sustained since the virus hit in early…
Barclays Looks to the Future with OpenFin Trading Desk Transformation
Barclays had a problem. It wanted to revamp its BARX single-dealer, cross-asset electronic trading platform to incorporate integrated analytics: avoiding the complexity of an additional standalone application but still adapting to the rapidly changing user needs of the current, complex trading environment. The answer? An innovative collaboration with OpenFin, an industry-wide operating system in which…
Xignite Boosts APIs to Streamline Data Delivery Amid Covid-19
California-based Xignite, a provider of market data distribution and management solutions for financial services and technology companies, this week scaled up the functionality of two of its financial data cloud APIs to offer greater speed and specificity. Xignite customers integrate financial data via Cloud APIs to power FinTech apps, such as robo-advisors, trading platforms, stock charts and investment analysis software….
Xignite’s Dubois: Covid-19 Expected to Accelerate Shift to Cloud for Market Data
The Covid-19 pandemic and its concomitant shift of much of the work force to home-working may force a re-evaluation of on-premises market data management. After an initial delay as the pandemic kicked in, financial institutions’ interest in cloud-based delivery of market data is now accelerating, according to Xignite CEO Stephane Dubois. Xignite has seen a…