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Market Signals and Risk Data Emerge As Opportunity
Demand from traders, portfolio managers and quants for better systematic data workflow management is an opportunity for service providers, according to Tom Doris, CEO and founder of OTAS Technologies, a market data analytics platform provider, who spoke in a panel discussion in New York on May 17. “The challenge in the next couple years, if…
MiFID II Review Shows Slow Progress and Ongoing Reporting Challenges
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just six months away, we called on some industry experts to share their views on how implementation is going, the toughest challenges of the regulation, and which workflows need to be prioritised to hit the 3 January 2018 deadline date. Among the…
Metamako, MayStreet Take Steps For Time-Stamped Order Ledger
FPGA networking platform provider Metamako has added market access and data analytics provider MayStreet’s services to its network, which will make it possible to develop a time-stamped order ledger, according to Ciaran Kennedy, head of US operations at Metamako. “MayStreet’s ability to decode market orders, extract our time stamp and combine the two, would allow…
NovaSparks Gets Last Missing US Market Data Feed
Field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data services provider NovaSparks has completed its array of supported feeds with the addition of the Securities Information Processors (SIP) feed, according to Olivier Baetz, chief operating officer of the company. NovaSparks now supports direct feeds for all 12 US equity protected markets — the SIP feed was the…
Corvil Readies Artificially Intelligent Cyber Security Service
Financial analytics service provider Corvil plans to take its new Cara virtual cybersecurity service from beta mode to fully operational at the end of June, according to David Murray, chief business development officer at the company. Cara is designed to meet security needs of electronic trading operations, to protect trading business against cyber attacks, and…
FRTB’s First Steps and Stages
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being instituted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2019 is the de facto successor to the global banking supervision organisation’s Basel III guidelines on market risk and capital adequacy. Financial services firms are beginning to consider the demands FRTB makes on their…
Portware AI System Growth Leading To ‘Bionic’ Trading
Building on the expansion of its Alpha Pro artificial intelligence agent for trading, begun in November, trade execution management system (EMS) provider Portware is moving toward what its CEO, Alfred Eskandar, calls a “bionic trading desk.” From March 2009 to March 2017, Portware’s Alpha Pro technology has delivered 133 basis points in return on micro…
xCelor, CIARA Pair Servers and Market Data Feeds
Low-latency trading solutions provider xCelor has partnered with high-frequency trading technology server company CIARA to integrate xCelor market data feed handlers with CIARA Orion HFT servers. The partnership and the integrated technologies, which are live in production, provide low-latency trading to user firms so that they need not spend resources on IT engineering to achieve…
Recorded Webinar: Learning from MiFID II for CAT reporting and data management
Compliance with the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation is just over 18 months away, meaning broker dealers within the scope of the regulation need to get started on their response. Like Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), CAT reporting presents significant – and similar – data management challenges, particularly around customer, account…
Data Processing Strides Pave The Way To More TCA Capability
Squarepoint Capital’s expansion of its use of Kx Systems technology for investment research capitalises on the provider’s strength at normalising data, tying together data sources and increasing the speed of its data processing — in a manner that sets the stage for more effective transaction cost analysis (TCA). Squarepoint uses Kx Systems’ Kdb+ time-series database…