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EDI Adds Canadian Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing Service
Exchange Data International (EDI) has introduced a Canadian fixed income evaluated pricing service initially including five asset class and with three more to come over the next few months. EDI prices over 30,00 CAD fixed income securities on a daily basis and has started to deliver Canadian fixed income evaluated prices to some of the…
Neudata Names Jan Scibor-Kaminski as Managing Director
Alternative data specialist Neudata has named Jan Scibor-Kaminski as managing director. He was previously in the same role at Structured Retail Products, a data business for the structured products industry and part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor group, and has also worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and for Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Neudata doesn’t…
Secret Transatlantic Radio Links Create Game Changing Advantage for Traders
By: Jason England, Head of Capital Markets Networks and Hosting, TD Securities Imagine if you could get prices and data 10 milliseconds faster than your competitors. The arbitrage benefits of the lowest latency transatlantic link would be enormous. NYC to London in 22 milliseconds is possible via radio and is a full 50% faster than…
Recorded Webinar: Best Practice for trade surveillance
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), Dodd-Frank and other regulations underline the need for effective and timely trade surveillance to counter market abuse. The webinar will discuss regulatory requirements for trade surveillance, best practice implementation, technology solutions and the benefits of getting market abuse compliance right. Listen to the…
WH Trading Uses QuantHouse for Low-Latency Global Market Access
WH Trading, a tech-savvy global proprietary trading firm, is using QuantHouse solutions QuantLINK and QuantFEED to support low-latency global market access. The Chicago based firm, which trades futures and options markets across US, Europe and Asia, is using QuantLINK, QuantHouse’s ultra-low latency 40G network, to enable market access and delivery of market data at low…
Why Banks Aren’t Looking in the Right Places to Tackle the Profitability Problem
By Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS Revenues at the world’s top investment banks are at their lowest levels since the financial crisis in 2008. According to research firm Coalition, the top 12 investment banks’ revenue fell to $150 billion in 2017, a 4% decrease from the previous year. A sizeable part of the decreasing…
NovaSparks Offers FPGA Optimised Market Data Distribution for Microwave Networks
Field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data distribution company NovaSparks has developed patent pending bandwidth shaping and market data conflation mechanisms that allow its FPGA ticker plant, NovaTick, to automatically adapt its output data rate to meet microwave networks’ strict bandwidth requirements. Transmitting market data updates over microwave networks is notoriously challenging due to the…
A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Awards 2018
The winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Awards 2018 have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade repository for regulatory disclosure, best vendor solution for data governance, and best compliance as a service solution. As…
Neudata Names Alternative Data Specialist Ian Webster as Senior Vice President
Alternative data specialist Ian Webster has joined Neudata as senior vice president with a remit to build relationships with the company’s buy-side investment management clients and expand its work with alternative data providers seeking to monetise their data. Webster holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and a Saltire Fellowship in Entrepreneurship…
Challenges and Opportunities of Cloud Solutions in the Trading Environment
Once a data security concern and now a popular processing option, cloud computing is becoming an integral element of trading infrastructure, but it does have limits when it comes to high-performance trading. The potential of cloud technology in the trading environment was discussed recently during an A-Team Group webinar moderated by Intelligent Trading Technology editor…