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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Emergence of the MiFID II Ecosystem

It’s back to school week and so we found ourselves back in town, hearing all about Colt’s new MiFID II Ecosystem, based around access points offered by its Colt PrizmNet financial extranet. The premise is relatively simple: why not use PrizmNet as the conduit to a range of MiFID II-relevant partner applications? At a function…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s a MAD MAD / MAR MAR World

Here in Canary Wharf, at least, all of the ongoing fuss about Brexit distracted us from a key regulatory milestone: the introduction on July 4 for the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the real-life incarnation of its earlier foray into financial crime: the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). We could all be forgiven for worrying about…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The British Love a Good Farce

A week after the referendum sent us into Brexit, there remain more questions than answers on what will become of the UK and – more pertinently for us – the City of London’s trading community. No-one truly knows how this will play out. We may collectively remain in the dark for some time. Many Remainers…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: LME Relocates Matching Engine to Interxion’s LON-1

In something of a coup for data centre operator Interxion, the London Metal Exchange will switch the primary site for its LME Select matching engine to Interxion’s LON-1 data centre near Brick Lane, effective October 1. LME has recently gone live at LON-1 with its secondary LME Select engine, which is based on upgraded infrastructure…

Redline Adds Eurex EOBI Order Book Support To its Fast Market Data Solution

Underscoring the important role of Eurex to European markets in general, Redline Trading Solutions has added a feed handler using Eurex’s Enhanced Order Book Interface (Eurex EOBI) protocol. The EOBI interface offers faster access to Eurex order book data, helping firms to respond more rapidly to changes on Eurex whether they are trading in the…

Sea Otter Implements Itiviti’s Tbricks Platform for ETF Market Making

Sea Otter Global Ventures, a private investment firm based in New York, has implemented Itiviti’s Tbricks platform for exchange traded funds (ETF) market making on NYSE Arca. The firm is a registered market maker on the exchange and deploys proprietary models to trade international ETFs. The Tbricks platform uses an app-based architecture and is provided…

Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange

Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike…

Itiviti Develops Regulatory Compliance Platform for MAR and MiFID II

Itiviti is developing a regulatory compliance solution that will be delivered as a managed service, focus first on Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and then on Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The solution is based on Itiviti’s Tbricks high performance trading platform and the OneTick ticker plant provided by Itiviti partner One Market…

BSO Networks Builds Out Low Latency Network, Services and Solutions

BSO Network Solutions is planning to extend its low latency trading network into South America, implement its cloud-based trading infrastructure platform within exchanges, and provide a MiFID II compliant time stamping solution. While the company is building out its business with services and solutions, its career started in connectivity, when college friends Michael Ourabah and…

Xignite Funding Round Opens Door to Asian Markets

Xignite, a provider of market data cloud solutions for fintech firms and financial institutions, has raised $20.5 million in a funding round led by Tokyo based Quick, a member of the Nikkei Group and Japan’s largest information provider. As a result of the funding, Xignite will partner Quick to deliver its data solutions in Asian…