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A-Team Group Names Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in London on February 27, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services…
Genesis Challenges Traditional Trading Solutions with Microservices Framework
Genesis Global will release AQS, an automated quoting system for fixed income desks, today, with a view to helping clients transform trading by automating internal workflows. The product is based on the company’s microservices framework and can be hosted in the cloud, underscoring growing appetite among firms to outsource key elements of the trading technology…
kACE Streams FX Options Prices to Additional End Points
kACE is enabling clients to stream FX Options prices to internal and external clients, single dealer platforms, execution venues and third-party platforms using its latest release of kACE Pro. The kACE Pro platform offers technology to support the lifecycle of FX options and metal options, including pricing, distribution, structuring and trading, portfolio management, straight through…
Fending Off the FAANGS Using High-Performance Switch Technology
A story we published some years ago suggesting that Google was looking at making an acquisition in the real-time market data space sparked unprecedented interest from our readership and to this day remains one of our most viewed articles. Since then, the generic financial services space has seen the arrival of a raft of interlopers…
The Race Is On – Catch Up with Corvil’s Next-Generation Trade Execution Analytics at TradingTech Summit
Trade execution analytics are taking a leap forward with the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to machine-time data. Ultimate results could include the ability to understand, evidentially, the relationship between trading systems performance and trade outcomes. Corvil has been working for about two years to develop machine learning algos that can identify…
TradingTech Summit: Find Out How to Use Cloud to Maximise Compute Performance
Adoption of cloud computing continues to increase as trading firms pursue maximum compute performance – but it is not all plain sailing with problems including making the right decisions on what to put in the cloud, integrating legacy systems, and overcoming ongoing concerns about cloud security, hacks and breaches. Ahead of next week’s A-Team Group…
Kx Offers kdb+ Time Series Database on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
Kx, a division of First Derivatives, is offering its kdb+ time series database on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, an important step forward for kdb+ customers that plan to migrate existing applications to the cloud and develop new cloud-based applications. Firms moving kdb+ development to AWS will be able to build and scale systems…
FlexNOW Migrates to AWS Cloud
FlexTrade Systems has made its FlexNOW execution management system available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a move to reduce latency for global clients. The Amazon platform will raise FlexNOW’s status as an innovative trading platform by decreasing onboarding time for clients and brokers while allowing their product teams to easily test new ideas, such…
Transaction Network Services Firms Up Secure Cloud Connect with Azure
Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions, is enhancing its Secure Cloud Connect solution with connectivity to Microsoft Azure. Firms using Azure can easily establish connectivity between all the markets, global exchanges, and other organisations that make up TNS’s 2,100 endpoints. Jeff Mezger, director of product management at TNS,…
Refinitiv Taps Influx DB for Cloud-Based Trading Analytics
Refinitiv has selected Influx DB to help build additional cloud-based analytics services. The initiative is part of a wider move to shift delivery of Refinitiv services, including real-time and other data, to a service-oriented cloud-based platform requiring minimal client-side equipment or maintenance. The InfluxDB analytics will add to the company’s Velocity Analytics and QA Direct…