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MiFID II Research Unbundling Threatens Smaller Firms Most, According to RSRSCHXchange Poll
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Small asset management firms are bearing the brunt of MiFID II unbundling as they struggle to cope with substantial new research costs resulting from the regulation’s demand that firms pay for analyst research separately from trade commissions. With fewer resources with which to both buy research and implement regulatory compliance,…
Recorded Webinar: Innovation in architecture: how to develop optimal, high performance trading
Cloud, predictive analytics, sophisticated algorithms, artificial intelligence and other high performance technologies are gaining traction, innovating trading architecture and delivering market advantage to early adopters. Their potential is phenomenal, but they do come with challenges around integration with existing systems and trading data. They must also be implemented in compliance with trading requirements of regulations…
J.P. Morgan and Citadel Adopt truePTS Post-Trade Derivatives Processing Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter truePTS is addressing the challenges of post-trade derivatives processing with its ‘no touch’ automated solution. Early adopters J.P. Morgan and Citadel are using the cloud-based platform as a lower-cost, digital alternative to legacy confirmation providers. The solution offers real-time synchronised connectivity between all participants in the post-trade environment through an…
A-Team Group Reveals Winners of 2018 Intelligent Trading Technology Awards
The winners of this year’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology (ITT) Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best cloud-based trading environment to best trading analytics platform and best consolidated market data feed. Consultancy categories covered best specialist trading technology consultancy and best specialist market data consultancy. A…
Data Management for Compliance, Business Performance and Reduced Costs
Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, business performance is crucial, and pressure on costs is continual. So, how can you source and manage data once for both compliance and performance, and how can you contain costs? These questions and more were addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinarhosted by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood and joined by Dessa Glasser,…
ARQA Technologies Partners with QuantHouse for European Expansion
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Russian order management system (OMS) provider ARQA Technologies is leveraging QuantHouse’s data centre and market data infrastructure to launch its hosted trading solutions in Continental European financial markets. Under the initiative, which will be hosted at QuantHouse’s London data centre, ARQA will use an adaptor for QuantHouse’s QuantFEED global market…
Key Efficiency Drivers for Evolving Fixed Income Markets
By: David Murray, Marketing and Chief Business Development Officer, Corvil Today’s fixed income markets are in transition, with changing roles of participants, an evolving regulatory climate, increased market fragmentation, accelerating electronification, a shift from active to passive investing, and macroeconomic factors all exerting influence. Unlike many other markets, fixed income markets are neither centralised and…
TTG Capital Selects Trading Technologies’ Futures Platform
London based global proprietary trading group TTG Capital (TTG) has selected Trading Technologies’ (TT) futures trading platform to scale its business and infrastructure technology through access to TT features and technology including Autospreader, ADL, charting, functionality for options trading and analytics, and connectivity to all TT supported markets through TT’s global network of colocated data…
Enterprise Structure from Hyannis Port Research brings Buy-Side Benefits
In April 2018, US-based capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) expanded into the European market to offer high-tech multi-jurisdictional solutions for European investment banks and major buy-side funds. With an approach based around an end-to-end offering, the firm brings its experience with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Rule 15c3-5 on…
Recorded Webinar: Managing market data feeds in the post MiFID II world
The aim of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to make market data more accessible requires market data providers to offer unbundled pre- and post-trade market data feeds that can be delivered as direct feeds or part of a consolidated service. The regulation also requires investment firms to publish details of OTC trades…