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SIX Digital Exchange Provides Digital Asset Trading
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) has opted for R3’s blockchain platform, Corda Enterprise, to provide digital asset listing and fully integrated end-to-end trading. Corda is designed to meet the standards of regulated environments. Many of R3’s members and investors, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, RBC, and UBS, are also SIX stock…
QuantHouse Offers Access to Real Estate Pricing Feeds
Market data services provider QuantHouse is working with the International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) to distribute IPSX pricing feeds through a single API to QuantHouse’s global community of hedge funds, asset managers and banks that require pricing feeds to trade real estate. The real estate pricing feeds enable firms to build internal pricing and algo…
Algorithmic Trading and Smart Order Routing Post-MiFID II
A-Team Group’s London TradingTech Summit on February 27, 2019 hosted a lively discussion on Post-MiFID II use of algorithms and smart order routers (SORs). Gavin Williamson, former managing director, global head of product development and regulatory change at HSBC, moderated the debate that ranged from total cost analysis (TCA) and pre- and post-trade analytics to…
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Selects Broadridge Investment Management Platform
Wealth manager Gluskin Sheff + Associates has enlisted the help of Broadridge Financial Services to implement the latter’s hosted investment management platform and gain access to order management, compliance and data analytics capabilities. Jeff Moody, president and executive officer at Gluskin Sheff, says working with Broadridge allows the firm to pursue and execute growth opportunities…
TickSmith Partners with Vela for TCA Solution
Montreal-based TickSmith has added Vela’s SuperFeed to the range of data feeds available to users of its high-performance database platform. A project to deliver a cloud-based transaction cost analysis (TCA) solution for a Tier 1 global investment bank was the catalyst for the partnership. According to Francis Wenzel, TickSmith CEO, the unnamed investment bank was…
London Stock Exchange Invests in Cryptocurrency Startup Nivaura
Nivaura, a regulated fintech company that has developed a platform to automate primary issuance and administration of financial assets through a blockchain infrastructure, has closed a $20 million funding round from prominent partners including the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The funding will allow Nivaura to expand, complete product development more quickly and meet clients’ increasingly…
TradingScreen Partners BIDS Trading
TradingScreen, and all-asset class OEMS provider, is partnering BIDS Trading, a large block trading ATS by volume in the US and the technology behind Cboe LIS in Europe, to give the buy-side access to BIDS liquidity in the US and Cboe LIS’ liquidity pool in Europe. The partnership will benefit market participants with quicker execution…
Castle Island Ventures Leads $1.9 million Investment in CoinMetrics
Coin Metrics, a provider of crypto asset market and network data, has closed a $1.9 million seed round of venture funding. Castle Island Ventures led the financing, with participation from Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital Partners and Dragonfly Capital. Tim Rice, co-founding CEO of CoinMetrics, says: “Our approach to aggregating crypto asset market data will use the guiding…
OpenFin Moves into the Cloud to Offer a Turnkey App Store
OpenFin has moved into the cloud to provide financial services firms with turnkey app stores and workspace management. The move builds on the OpenFin operating system that allows interoperability between desktop apps and is designed to deliver value to users quickly, accelerate time to market and facilitate digital transformation programmes. The company had been considering…
Bloomberg Adds Alternative Data to Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point
Bloomberg’s push into alternative data puts providers including Thasos, Apptopia, TipRanks, PredictWallStreet, RS Metrics, Orbital Insights, OWL Analytics, Predata, Evaluate, 280First and Symphony Pharma on its data website, Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point. Launched in 2018, Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point is an online linked data platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory, historical and now alternative…