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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….

Intelligent Trading Insights and Predictions for 2017

Trading organisations need to turn the manual art of trading operations into the science of automation to reduce costs, deliver the best outcomes for clients and comply with the transparency requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). They may also need to reassess business models that are no longer fit for purpose….

ISDA Variation Margin Protocol Deadline Nears

Smaller asset managers and funds may have a harder time than their larger counterparts with preparing to follow a variation margin protocol that takes effect on March 1, according to an attorney specializing in derivatives markets standards. The protocol issued by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) in August 2016 sets rules for contract…

Visible Alpha Adds Corporate Access Through Acquisition

Data correction, analytics and distribution services provider Visible Alpha is adding corporate access information to its services through an acquisition of ONEaccess, an analytics hub that provides corporate access events information and analysis of related interactions between market professionals, according to company officials. Corporate access events include roadshows, conferences, speaking panels and one-on-one meetings. “Prior…

MiFID II Response Depends On Organizing Data, Sticking To Exchanges

Transparency of financial market activity will be key to achieving compliance with MiFID II best execution provisions, states independent industry consultant Chris Pickles, who will be on a panel discussing data management under the European Union directive, at the Intelligent Trading Summit (ITS) to be hosted by A-Team Group in London on 2nd February. “MiFID…

CAT Builder Choice Marks End Of Years-Long Process

Spurred by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval of a national market system (NMS) plan in November, which includes creation of a consolidated audit trail (CAT), US securities exchanges chose Thesys Technologies, a New York-based trading technology provider with a focus on trading surveillance and big data functions already aimed at CAT functions….

Thomson Reuters Sets New Foundation For REDI

Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of execution management systems provider REDI Holdings will be integrated into its pre-trade and post-trade workflow services, and its Eikon financial analysis solution, according to Michael Chin, managing director and global head of trading at Thomson Reuters. The acquisition by Thomson Reuters is aimed at capturing more of the buy-side workflow, an…