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S&P Global Calls QuantHouse Sale Part Of Realignment
Market information provider S&P Global’s sale of market data and end-to-end systematic trading solutions provider QuantHouse, which it had acquired in 2012, is intended to allow its S&P Global Market Intelligence division to focus on opportunities “that most closely align with our vision,” says Mike Chinn, president of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Access to exchange…
IBOR Systems Will Break Firms’ Internal Information Barriers
Continued increased interest in Investment Book of Record (IBOR) systems will continue to shape front-office trading operations and alpha generation in 2017, predicts Joshua Satten, head of the fintech practice at Sapient Global Markets, the Boston-based business technology and consulting provider. “IBOR is bringing together front, middle and back office data,” he said. “As we…
Architecture, Performance Proved Key to Deutsche Börse Use of TBricks
Deutsche Börse’s implementation of the Tbricks derivatives pricing and alerting platform offered by Itiviti, a Stockholm-based capital markets technology provider, harnesses the platform’s architecture and performance strengths, said Rickard Davidsson, vice president of sales, EMEA, at Itiviti. “TBricks uses out-of-the-box functionality for its overall set-up — for pricing, volatility management, alerting, and standard monitoring functionality…
MiFID II Preparation Challenges Emerge
For trading operations, MiFID II still appears to be a moving target in terms of transparency and reporting requirements, according to data and regulation experts from industry service providers. Compliance with MiFID II is requiring significant technology resources, the experts said, speaking during the general meeting of FISD in New York on December 15. “In…
NovaSparks Adds Markets To Ticker Product
Paris-based market data company NovaSparks, which offers field programmable gate array (FPGA) services, has added 10 markets to its NovaTick ticker plant product. The additions bring NovaSparks total coverage in NovaTick to a total of over 50 markets. The new markets include the Osaka Securities Exchange, Chi-X Japan and SBI JapanNext in Japan; the Australian…
Fonetic Upgrades Automatic Trade Reconstruction Technology
Fonetic has extended its automatic trade reconstruction (ATR) solution to give compliance and surveillance officers more features and functionality to support the investigation of trades, detection of fraud and the ability to export an ATR timeline as a data file to a regulator. The company suggests the solution is well suited to the trade reconstruction…
US Regulation Experts: Blockchain Could Require Exchange Registration
Could using blockchain require registration with US regulators as a broker or exchange? That’s the caution sounded in a discussion of the legal and regulatory challenges for banks using new financial technology hosted by Polsinelli, a law firm with offices in 20 US cities, at its New York office on December 8. The US Securities…
Time Stamps Key To Market Data Performance, TCA Provider Tells Webinar
To get the highest performance possible from managing market data operations, especially connectivity, a deterministic approach may not be the only one that should be taken, observed Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData, who spoke in a December 8 webinar sponsored by the transaction cost analysis provider, and hosted by Intelligent Trading Technology and…
Recorded Webinar: High performance market data management technologies
The challenges and opportunities of managing market data using hardware acceleration, a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and in-memory and other high speed databases. What are industry best practices for access to high-speed market information? How are firms using hardware acceleration? What is a deterministic approach to low latency connectivity and why is it…
Thomson Reuters-BestX Link Enhances TCA With More Data
The pairing of Thomson Reuters and FX analytics specialist BestX puts together a comprehensive data set with more analytical functions and visualisation capabilities, according to executives from both companies. In the partnership announced December 5, Thomson Reuters will offer connectivity to BestX’s transaction cost analysis (TCA) service, and Thomson Reuters users may send trades automatically…