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Thomson Reuters Teams Up with Kx to Deliver Superfast MiFID II Solution
Thomson Reuters has teamed up with Kx to enhance its Velocity Analytics platform and deliver ultra-high-speed processing of real time, streaming and historical data to meet the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The platform has been refreshed and released as Version 8, with Kx high-performance computing technology replacing high-speed processing…
Tullett Prebon To Feed Data To Murex Trading Platform
Trading, risk and processing solutions provider Murex has partnered with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI) to use its real-time, end-of-day and historic price information for internal model validation, gaining independent and accurate data to feed the Murex platform, according to officials of the companies. “TPI content comes directly from the trading operations of our global brokerage…
Symphony Foundation Looks To Leverage New FinTech Members
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Symphony Software Foundation, a non-profit financial services open source software organization, has added three new “silver tier” members in an effort to include more fintech companies and offerings in its group, according to Gabriele Columbro, executive director of the organization. The Symphony Foundation’s new members are ChartIQ, a data visualization provider; The…
Trade Surveillance is Challenging, But is There Also a Glint of Opportunity?
If Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) extend the breadth and depth of trade surveillance, could they also provide opportunities for firms that get it right? These issues and more were debated during a panel session at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in London. Intelligent Trading…
Convergex Implementation Shows Ancoa’s Global Value
Trading services and solutions provider Convergex has implemented an Amazon Web Services (AWS)-hosted market surveillance platform provided by Ancoa, gaining a “one-stop shop” for surveillance of trading activity in both the US and internationally, according to Ann Neidenbach, chief information officer at Convergex. Convergex’s US team has been using Ancoa’s platform for about six months,…
Outside Partnerships Bolster Trade Execution Infrastructures
Partnership is the most important ingredient for optimising the performance of trading infrastructure and reducing its complexity, say operations executives who spoke at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London on 2nd February. Regulatory compliance issues are gaining on cost and value as the biggest consideration, however, according to the executives. Partnership efforts address the need…
Careful Redundancy and Re-Purposing Can Improve Trade Execution
Looking at what systems to switch off and how take apart infrastructures to optimize resources and hardware are the best ways address undue complexity of electronic execution infrastructures, states Bob Mudhar, partner at Citihub Consulting, who will be on a panel covering issues for electronic execution infrastructures at the Intelligent Trading Summit to be hosted…
Advanced Logic Analytics Delivers OneLogic Big Data Analytics Platform
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a start-up in the big data space, has released OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured big data in real time. Use cases for the platform include predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics for better-informed trading decisions, and data management for regulatory compliance. As the company makes…
Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…
Change is on the Horizon for Ultra-Low Latency Data
Technology cost and performance have characterised the ultra-low latency data space over the past few years, but change is on the horizon as trading firms review technology investment and chase game changing innovation. The opportunities and challenges of managing ultra-low latency data will be discussed at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in London….