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Refinitiv Introduces Cloud-Based Quantitative Analytics Platform
Building on its drive towards cloud delivery of its financial data services, Refinitiv – the former Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has introduced QA Direct in the Cloud, a quantitative analytics platform delivered through Microsoft Azure. QA Direct in the Cloud builds on the QA Direct platform, which was acquired in 2006 as…
Linear Investments Partners Integral to Expand FX Platform
Prime broker and hedge fund incubator Linear Investments has reached an agreement with Integral that will provide Linear clients with the same level of functionality for FX it already offers for equities, derivatives, and fixed income services. The deployment of Integral’s cloud-based BankFX has enabled Linear Investments to customise its FX platform with sophisticated pricing…
Wall Street Horizon Offers Increased Access to Corporate Event Data
Wall Street Horizon has expanded access to corporate event data with the addition of 2,000 global companies to its Enchilada platform. It has also enhanced the platform’s application programming interface (API) and graphical user interface. Barry Star, CEO of Wall Street Horizon, says: “Since the launch of Enchilada in 2015, clients have increasingly had more…
OneMarketData and West Highland Partner to Provide OneTick Monitoring
OneMarketData and West Highland have partnered to provide premier monitoring and support services for clients using the OneTick data aggregation and streaming analytics platform. The partnership reflects increased demand for hosted and managed solutions, and uses West Highland’s managed services to provide uninterrupted access to data and analytics services on the OneTick platform. Scott Breslin,…
Mexican Stock Exchange Extends Reach Through Tie Up with BT Radianz Cloud
BT and the Mexican Stock Exchange, part of the BMV Group, have signed a contract that will allow global investors, market data vendors and service providers to access Mexico’s financial markets. The deal enables BT to distribute the latest BMV multicast feeds over the BT Radianz Cloud. The Radianz cloud community consists of thousands of…
City Index/Forex.com Operator GAIN Capital Deploys Eventus for Surveillance
By Zoe Schiff, Reporter GAIN Capital Holdings, operator of the Forex.com and City Index online trader services, has deployed the cloud-based version of Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to manage its market surveillance programme for its futures market activities. The FCM’s Compliance and Risk departments and Trade Desk will be using the Validus system for the…
Société Générale Selects Duco Platform as Part of Plan to Reinvent Operations
Société Générale has reach agreement to deploy Duco’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise reconciliation and control platform as part of its focus on reinventing its operations functions to provide better insights, enhance customer service and improve data governance. Société Générale will use the Duco platform to automate key reconciliation processes across all business areas, dramatically improving efficiency…
MDX Technology Breaks the Market Data Mould with Project IOWA
MDX Technology, a provider of real-time data distribution solutions for the global trading community, has introduced Project IOWA, a data driven ecosystem designed to redefine the way content owners and content subscribers meet and transact business by using flexible, multi-channel subscriptions to data. The aim of the initiative is to liberate content owners and subscribers…
State Street Acquisition of Charles River Offers Clients Front-Office Data Management Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter State Street has completed its acquisition of financial data firm Charles River Systems for $2.6 billion. First announced in July 2018, the deal gives State Street’s clients access to Charles River’s front-office data aggregation and management platform. The bank has appointed John Plansky, formerly global head of State Street Global…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…