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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…
QuantHouse Adds Euronext’s FastMatch FX Tape to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added Euronext’ FastMatch consolidated market data product, FX Tape, to its API ecosystem. Available as part of QuantFeed and responsible for normalising and disseminating market data for over 140 feeds, FastMatch’s FX Tape provides a large degree of post-trade transparency. Kevin Wolf, CEO of FastMatch, comments: “FX Tape makes post-trade information for the…
BSO Partners Stake Capital to Deliver Blockchain Staking-as-a-Service
Stake Capital, a provider of secure delegation services, has partnered network, cloud and hosting provider BSO to deliver blockchain staking-as-a-service for institutional cryptocurrency. The Stake Capital platform and its digital assets custodian services enable institutional investors to securely manage their crypto investments while viewing insights and analytics regarding their investments’ performance through staking and lending….
TradingTech Summit Discusses Brexit, Market Complexity, Innovation, and More!
A-Team Group’s first TradingTech Summit under the TradingTech Insight brand got off to a great start with Beate Born, executive director of risk and regulatory management at UBS Wealth Management, providing an inspirational industry keynote on the outlook for risk, regulation and sustainability in 2019. The presentation not only set the scene for the summit,…