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New Hotscan360 Solution From Canada’s CGI
Anti-financial crime solutions provider CGI has launched CGI HotScan360, an enhanced version of its existing HotScan solution. CGI HotScan360 provides integrated, intelligent and real time anti-money laundering, customer due diligence and fraud detection capabilities. The platform uses a real-time risk engine to scan and score thousands of transactions per second utilising machine learning, advanced analytics…
FlexTrade Taps Corvil for Infrastructure, Client Analytics
Buy-side order and execution management system provider FlexTrade has turned to Corvil to industrialise its infrastructure monitoring processes and ultimately help clients optimise their own trading stacks. The move illustrates the ongoing shift to greater transparency around execution quality as firms look beyond transaction cost analysis (TCA) and seek to measure execution performance and offer…
Refinitiv and Tradeweb Renew Data Agreement, But Where Next for Tradeweb?
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has renewed an agreement with Tradeweb Markets to make Tradeweb market data, including additional datasets, available for exclusive redistribution. The expanded, multi-year agreement enables financial professionals to access Tradeweb data across multiple Refinitiv platforms and solutions, based on the user’s individual preferences and workflow requirements….
Linedata Partners with Trade Informatics to Launch Analytics Solution
Paris-based Linedata, a provider of credit and asset management technology, has teamed up with FINRA member and quantitative analytics firm Trade Informatics (TI) to launch a new suite of execution analytics using TI’s Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading (START). Linedata’s order management solution (OMS), powered by START, a broker-neutral, intelligent trading engine, will…
The Signal and the Noise: Changing the Approach to Investment Data
Today there is significant pressure on active management funds to generate returns that are better than the passive funds that they compete against. As a result, investment managers are constantly seeking new ways to generate investment edge. This has happened in an environment where the volume and velocity of investment data available continues to accelerate….
KeyBanc Capital Markets Adopts Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise Trading Workflow Solution
KeyBanc Capital Markets (KCBM) has adopted Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise, which enables sales traders to target a broader audience, access relevant market insights, and gain more value from their order flow. After adopting the DASH solution, KeyBanc Capital Markets has noted an increase in hit ratio and crossing rates. The solution is able to analyze and…
ACTUS Foundation Releases Open-Source Standard for Financial Markets Contracts
The ACTUS Financial Research Foundation is releasing open-source Algorithmic Contract Types Unified Standards (ACTUS) version 1.0, which will be available on GitHub. ACTUS creates a standard for the mathematical representation of the payment obligations embodied in financial contracts, and seeks to provide the financial industry with a unified, machine-readable depiction of financial contracts for transaction-processing,…
Integral Secures $15 Million Funding from Morgan Stanley
FX trading technology specialist Integral has received $15 million of strategic funding from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. The funds will be used to extend the reach of its FX technology platform to a wider audience of banks, brokers and asset managers. Integral provides a cloud-based workflow management and trading platform that enables FX market participants…
Bloomberg Makes B-PIPE Feed Available in AWS Cloud
Moving with the current trend towards cloud-based services, Bloomberg has made its B-PIPE real-time market data feed available via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The move expands the delivery options available to Bloomberg clients, which now include on-premise, hosted and cloud. Cloud-based delivery of market data services holds the promise of reducing local on-premise processing requirement,…
Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Expand Alternative Data Offer
Nasdaq plans to combine Quandl with its Analytics Hub business within Global Information Services following its acquisition of the data and core financial data provider. Quandl provides alternative data and core financial data from over 350 sources to more than 30,000 active monthly users. The company offers a global database of alternative, financial and public…