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Directory of MiFID II Electronic Trading Venues 2018
The inaugural edition of A-Team Group’s Directory of MiFID II Electronic Trading Venues 2018 offers a guide to the European landscape resulting from new market structure introduced by the January 3, 2018 implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The directory provides detailed profiles of more than 70 venue operators and their…
Metamako Makes First Acquisition as it Takes on xCelor’s Hardware Business
Metamako has acquired the network device business of Chicago based xCelor, bringing xCelor hardware customers into the Metamako fold and allowing xCelor to concentrate on developing high-performance network applications that will be provided on Metamako hardware. This is Metamako’s first acquisition and a strategic milestone for the provider of low-latency FPGA-enabled network solutions. Sydney based…
FactSet and Quantopian Partner to Deliver Enterprise Data Analysis Platform for Quants
FactSet and Quantopian, a crowd sourced asset manager and provider of an open source quantitative finance platform, have formed a strategic relationship to deliver Quantopian Enterprise, a data analysis solution that allows quants to research, test and simulate how investment algorithms will perform in the real world. To support this, the relationship combines Quantopian’s open…
HPR Extends Capital Markets Infrastructure Technology into Europe
US based capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) has made its first foray into Europe with a leading global investment bank that has gone live with its Riskbot market access platform in EMEA. The platform provides trading clients with sub-microsecond direct market access to Cboe Europe, Euronext, LSE, Turquoise and Xetra. Riskbot…
big xyt Hires Former Barclays Capital Executive Mark Montgomery
big xyt, a provider of data and analytics as a service, has appointed Mark Montgomery, formerly director of electronic trading sales at Barclays Capital, to support strategy and business development. In the newly created role, Montgomery will work closely with big xyt CEO Robin Mess and focus on alignment of business strategy with client needs…
TORA Introduces AlgoWheel to Help Firms Create Systematic Best Ex Processes
TORA has introduced an AI-powered AlgoWheel designed to help firms create scalable and systematic best execution processes in line with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The TORA AlgoWheel is a quantitative execution strategy optimiser that uses AI technology to automate low-touch order execution or provide real-time market intelligence for…
MiFID II: Industrialising the Response Using UL BRIDGE
Many firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) struggled to meet the regulation’s deadline of January 3, 2018 and are now waking up to the fact that many of the processes put in place for implementation day are not sustainable. To achieve and maintain MiFID II compliance over time…
FlexTrade Releases FlexNow EMS for Hedge Funds and Mini-Primes
FlexTrade has formally released FlexNOW, an out-of-the-box, broker neutral execution management system (EMS) for hedge funds and mini-primes that want a multi-asset trading system at the click of a button. The EMS supports MiFID II compliance and is designed to handle equities, futures and options trading. It also offers connectivity to leading market data providers,…
ION Trading Seals the Deal at Fidessa
ION Trading has agreed to acquire Fidessa just hours after it made a proposal to buy the company at a value of £1.5 billion and then transitioned the proposal into a formal offer. The offer trumps the bid for Fidessa made by Temenos in February and initially recommended by Fidessa to its shareholders. As we…
ION Trading Expected to Make Offer for Fidessa Ahead of 5pm Closing Deadline Today
The bidding battle for Fidessa has recommenced with ION Trading saying this morning that it has made a proposal to acquire Fidessa for £38.70 per share in cash. The proposal tops the offer of £35.67 per share made by Temenos on 21 February, but it is only a proposal and ION Trading must make a…