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OTAS Increases Frequency Of Text Format Reporting
Market analytics and trading intelligence provider OTAS Technologies has launched Intraday Lingo, which increases the timeliness of its Lingo natural language reporting technology. OTAS Technologies’ Lingo technology synthesises market data, charts and informational graphics to produce natural language text for users to read, explains Tom Doris, CEO of OTAS Technologies. “Everything relevant to your investment…
Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap
Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…
ISITC Taps Machine Learning To Catch Suspect Transactions
Although the financial industry’s awareness of the need to use machine learning to bolster its cybersecurity has existed for several years, focused work on such endeavors is just beginning, as Erica Choinski, the new chair of industry operations group ISITC, sees it. As ISITC prepares the agenda for its 23rd annual vendor show in Boston…
IHS Markit Launches ‘Different’ Solution For Derivatives Tax Compliance
Information, analytics and solutions provider IHS Markit has launched Markit / CTI Tax Solutions for Section 871(m), a service that went live with some users on January 1 as the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule governing withholding on foreign investors for dividend equivalent payments for US equity derivatives took effect. Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH),…
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…