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Trading Tech Consolidation Continues with State Street’s $2.6bn Purchase of Charles River
State Street’s $2.6 billion acquisition of financial data firm Charles River Systems, Inc (Charles River Development) has been heralded in some quarters as game changing. But is it really, or is it perhaps just another step in ongoing consolidation in the trading tech space, and indeed in the logical development of the role of the…
ITS Summit NYC 2018 Podcast: Exploring Digital Transformation for Financial Desktops
Digital transformation is all the rage in the back office, but what about the front office where traders work with at least 10 different apps every day? This fractured ecosystem was the subject of a session presented by Adam Toms, CEO of OpenFin Europe, at last month’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York…
Post-trade ETD – where all the sticking plaster got used!
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation…
Interxion Unveils New LON-3 Data Centre
Colocation data centre service provider Interxion this week announced the planned October launch of LON-3, the latest addition to its central London campus, with an event at London’s City Hall on July 11. Interxion’s Brick Lane data centre is already home to a number of electronic execution venues, including Instinet’s BlockMatch, the London Metal Exchange’s…
The Next Wave for Trading Infrastructure Analytics
How are analytics applied to electronic trading infrastructure? What is so important about time accuracy? And how can you gain complete visibility into all the transaction processes with a view to answering questions from the business? Corvil CEO Donal Byrne addresses these questions and more, in a wide-ranging discussion on the potential for trading analytics…
Beeks Financial Cloud Adds Cross-Connect Access to LME
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter High-performance Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider Beeks Financial Cloud has added cross-connect capability to the London Metal Exchange (LME). The facility – implemented at Interxion’s LON-1 data centre in Brick Lane in London, home to LME’s primary matching engine since May 2017 – will allow collocated Beeks clients to trade electronically on…
NP RTS Group Joins IPC Ecosystem, Connecting 6,000 Capital Market Firms to Russian Markets
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Moscow-based market operator NP RTS Group has joined IPC Systems’ global financial community, opening up access to key Russian equities exchanges, OTC markets, banks and clearing houses. The link with NP RTS gives the IPC Connexus extranet’s 6,000 institutional investor, asset manager, hedge fund and broker-dealer customers access to the…
MahiFX Offers FX Trade Analysis and Visualisation Tool MFX Echo
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter MahiFX, the institutional and retail foreign exchange (FX) technology services firm, has introduced MFX Echo, a white-label trade analysis, liquidity visualisation and price explainer tool that allows eFX traders to evaluate markets and analyse performance during and post execution. Following the success of MFX Compass, a pricing and risk management…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
State Street: The Journey Towards Internal Efficiency
State Street managing director Nathaniel Rand led A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York with a keynote that opened a window onto the firm’s technology investment strategy, including core goals, key stages and crucial trends in the journey towards an evolved and efficient technology infrastructure. Over the past few years, State Street, one…