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Tora Integrates Otas Analytics to Meet Demand for Added Value Best Ex Tools
Tora has enhanced its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) with the integration of Otas portfolio and trading analytics. The integration is expected to help clients generate alpha and meet the best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Building out its MiFID II capability, the company has also integrated…
MiFID II Handbook – Second Edition
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just over two months away, A-Team Group has updated its MiFID II handbook to bring you the latest details on the regulation’s compliance requirements. Version 2 of the handbook, commissioned by Thomson Reuters, also includes new sections covering data sourcing and data…
SteelEye Discusses RegTech Data Platform for MiFID II and More
Ahead of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London, we caught up with Matt Smith, CEO at SteelEye, to discuss the company’s RegTech proposition, potential users, and participation in our London event. Q: What does RegTech mean to you? A: For me, RegTech is the application of technical innovation to reduce the complexity…
big xyt Releases Cloud-Based Tick Data Hub with API Access
big xyt has released a cloud-based tick data hub designed to provide trading firms with access to tick data and analytics through a single application programming interface (API). Bats has signed up as the first xyt hub exchange partner and will offer tick data to end clients for algo back testing and analytics. The hub…
QuantHouse API Ecosystem Offers Quants Easy Access to Apps
QuantHouse has built out its application programming interface (API) capability to deliver qh API Ecosystem, a framework that allows fintech firms to offer their products as on-demand solutions available through open APIs, and API based users, particularly hedge funds and automated trading firms, to access trading solutions without the complexity of integration. The benefits are…
Eze Software Sets Out its Approach to MiFID II
Following the appointment of David Quinlan, an 18-year veteran of Eze Software, as the company’s executive managing director of EMEA with responsibility for business development and a focus on the needs of growing numbers of EMEA clients within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), we caught up with Quinlan and…
IHS Markit Offers Cloud Service for MiFID II RTS 28 Best Execution Compliance
By Laura Burgess IHS Markit has introduced a service designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) comply with RTS 28, an element of the regulation’s best execution requirements that mandates firms to publicly report their top five trading venues by asset class. RTS 28 takes effect…
Cloud Specialist Options Outlines 2017 Network Expansion Plans
Data centre operator and financial cloud hosting specialist Options has created a delightfully topological map of its 2017 expansion plans. The map – reproduced here – was posted on LinkedIn this week by COO Danny Moore, formerly of Wombat Financial Software, which emerged as the mainstay of the former NYSE Technologies much of which was…
With MiFID II Unbundling Looming, Commcise and TR Roll Out Research Capabilities
Amid media reports that sell-side firms are struggling to settle on commercial arrangements for subscriptions to their unbundled research services post-MiFID II, service providers are starting to roll out solutions aimed at helping buy-side firms receive, manage and pay for research under the new arrangements. MiFID II will require buy-side firms to justify how they…
LiquidityBook Taps Twitter Techie Carroll as Chief Architect
As financial services technology continues to play catch-up with the kids using widely available consumer technologies, trading software supplier LiquidityBook has put its money where its mouth is. The company has named Andy Carroll, former Twitter staff software engineer, as its chief architect, charted with leading the development of its SaaS delivery platform. LiquidityBook is…