TradingTech Insight Market Data & Analytics The latest content from across the platform
Neueda Jumps into Product Space with Scrutiny Test Automation Tool
Belfast-based trading technology specialists Neueda has launched Scrutiny, a front-office applications test automation platform that allows trading firms to reduce time to market and cost of ownership. The release marks a significant step by the services-led provider into a more product-led strategy with a pipeline of additional capabilities for future release. Neueda specialises in helping…
Quest Selects QuantHouse to Support Core Trading Requirements
Quest, an alternative investment firm, has chosen QuantHouse to provide specialised technology services to meet its needs for high quality data and technology, and to tailor solutions for its automated trading clients. With connectivity and hosting services in financial data centres worldwide, QuantHouse allows Quest to connect to brokers, execution venues and other technology providers…
FTSE Russell and Refinitiv Extend Partnership Providing Fixed Income Data, Analytics and Indexes
FTSE Russell is set to broaden the scope of Refinitiv datasets used in its fixed income indexes and analytic tools. The decision was made after a supplier review and will combine Refinitiv’s expertise in fixed income pricing and terms and conditions, with FTSE Russell’s capabilities in multi-asset indexes and analytics. The extended relationship is expected…
YipitData Offers ReadyPipe Web-Scraping Services to Institutional Investors
YipitData, a provider of web data for institutional investors, has made its internal web-scraping platform, ReadyPipe, available to external customers. The platform enables analysts to collect web data and write their own web-scraping logic, and has potential to give investors informational advantage. The ReadyPipe service allows firms to either log onto the ReadyPipe platform and…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Inside Bloomberg’s London Campus – The End of the Data Centre?
Bloomberg’s new London HQ, which opened last year on the site of the old Bucklersbury House between Cannon Street and Bank station, has been lauded by pundits for its innovative and appealing architectural and ergonomic design. Gone are the tanks of piranhas (at least we didn’t see any when we were there) in favour of…
Could MiFID II be the Unlikely Catalyst of AI Adoption in Capital Markets?
By: Terence Chabe, Business Development Manager, Colt Technology Services We are a year on from MiFID II coming into effect, and while the regulation hasn’t caused any of the more apocalyptic consequences predicted, it has transformed the day-to-day life of those working in capital markets. One key change is the vast amount of data firms…
Quantity vs. Quality: An Evolving Research Paradigm
A revolution is under way in how buy-side firms conceptualize value in the research they consume. However, sell-side houses may be behind the curve in recognizing this. Driving this change in perception among buy-side firms is the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Under MiFID II, buy-side firms have to pay for…
BIG Offers Blockchain Course for Crypto Investigations
BIG Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG), a Vancouver-based developer and provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency search, risk-scoring and data analytics tools and investigation services, claims to have launched the “world’s first” investigator-developed, eight-hour online certification course for cryptocurrency investigations. Originally created for US law enforcement officials, the course has been adapted for use by finance and…
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…