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The Time to Implement Innovative Technology for Electronic Execution is Now
Technology innovation is side-lining low latency in the drive to optimise performance and reduce complexity and cost of electronic execution infrastructure – but which technologies are finding favour and what can they deliver? Join the discussion at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City to find out about technology innovation for…
How Trading Operations Changes Both Cut and Inflate Costs
Even as fixed-income trading operations technology makes up its lag behind equities trading technology, the overall costs in trading operations are likely to increase, causing investment firms to have to pay more, according to panelists who will be considering “Trading in the new normal environment” at the Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on June…
How ‘Deep Learning’ Could Make A Deep Impact On Trading
As a machine learning technique, “deep learning” has evolved enough to be useful for trading operations, according to Elliot Noma, managing director at Garret Asset Management. Noma will be moderating a panel on the uses and limitations of the technique, at the Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on June 8. Deep learning expands on…
IHS Markit Platform Promises Compliance Cost Savings
Information and analytics solutions provider IHS Markit has begun its rollout of Outreach360, a platform for managing documentation and communication concerning regulatory compliance, according to company officials. The platform will reduce compliance costs and standardize communication with contacts about compliance, says Darren Thomas, managing director and head of the Counterparty Manager service containing the Outreach360…
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…