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SWIM – Retail Liquidity goes from Strength to Strength

By Joe Everitt, Managing Director SELECT, Stifel Europe Double-volume caps, large-in-scale restrictions, periodic auctions and systematic internalisers. In the first eight months of the new MiFID II regime the trading landscape has evolved radically. New liquidity venues abound fulfilling a variety of purposes and masters, some merely enabling the compliant trading of existing business in…

Recorded Webinar: How to track and control usage of market data services you pay for

If you’re like most market data managers, you’ll be under constant pressure to provide greater access to a wider variety of financial information services, while at the same time reducing the spend on such data services. You’ll also need to take control of services to make sure you know exactly what is being used and…

QuantHouse Provides Optimised Direct Access to Cboe Market Data

QuantHouse is providing clients with optimised direct access to Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) market data for US equity and equity options via its low-latency market data offering QuantFeed and order routing service QuantLINK. The partnership will enable QuantHouse clients to access all asset classes traded by Cboe from all QuantHouse data centres via a…

ICE Partners OneMarketData to Deliver On-Demand Tick Data and Analytics Service

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has teamed up with OneMarketData to deliver an on-demand tick data and analytics service based on the OneTick platform and provided within the ICE Consolidated Feed. OneMarketData’s OneTick analytics will be hosted by ICE Data Services and powered for customers by the ICE Consolidated Feed, offering a cost-effective, on-demand data platform integrated…

Recorded Webinar: Optimising fast market data using high performance technologies

While the need for speed is no longer the only key requirement of trading, it remains near the top of the agenda with successful firms benefiting from higher fill rates and improved execution quality. So how can this be achieved at your firm? This webinar will identify the types of high performance technologies that can…

Bell Direct Selects FlexTradeOMS for Smart Order Router Algo Strategies

Australian-based online broker Bell Direct has selected FlexTrade’s order management system (OMS) for smart order router algorithmic strategies for the Australian Stock Exchange and Chi-X Australia. Lee Muco, chief operating officer at Bell, says the broker chose FlexTrade because its global, multi-asset and end-to-end OMS caters to the company’s existing workflow while also considering the…

Exegy Partners TNS to Deliver Global FX Trading Platform

Market data normalisation and distribution technology provider Exegy is working with managed data communications and interoperability specialist Transaction Network Services (TNS) to create a global FX trading platform. The partnership will combine Exegy’s Trade Port FX, which delivers normalised FX market data and execution services, and TNS’ market connectivity and hosting solutions to offer a…

Continuous Development Key to Future Proofing Your Back Office

By Amrik Thethi, chief technology officer, Torstone Technology Most of us will agree that trying to get fit after a period of inactivity can be a challenging endeavour. What’s more, those who do not commit to making fundamental lifestyle changes on a long-term basis will most likely find any physical gains short lived. This analogy…

FlexTrade Introduces Fast Back-Testing Framework for Equities, FX and Futures

FlexTrade has introduced a back-testing framework designed to gauge and adjust the performance of past trading strategies for real-time use in trading equities, FX and futures. The solution is available as an addition to the company’s FlexTRADER EMS and OMS platforms and is designed to allow traders to test an unlimited number of financial instruments…

Deutsche Börse Creates DLT and Crypto-Assets Team to Explore Blockchain Solutions

Deutsche Börse has set up a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Crypto Assets and New Market Structures unit to advance its work on blockchain technology, distributed ledgers and crypto assets. The 24-person team will be led by managing director Jens Hachmeister, who will coordinate the team’s blockchain-based development, which he says has the potential to effect…