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TS Imagine Launches Real-Time CCP Margin Calculator for RiskSmart X
TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions vendor, has introduced a new CCP Margin Calculator within its RiskSmart X platform, giving sell-side firms the ability to calculate, on demand using real time prices, the margin requirements from their central counterparties (CCPs). RiskSmart X is specifically designed for prime brokers, risk managers, and operations…
S&P Global and Accenture Collaborate to Advance GenAI in Financial Services
S&P Global and Accenture have announced a strategic collaboration to drive generative AI (GenAI) innovation within the financial services sector. Central to this partnership is a comprehensive gen AI learning program, set to launch in August, aimed at equipping S&P Global’s 35,000 employees with essential AI skills. The program will utilise Accenture LearnVantage services, offering…
Taskize Launches Mailbox Analyser to Track and Quantify Email Impact in Post-Trade Operations
Taskize has introduced Mailbox Analyser, a new tool designed to track and quantify the impact of email communication in post-trade operations. Given the substantial volume of emails handled by custodian banks—often exceeding a million annually—the new tool addresses the challenges posed by high email traffic, such as errors and auditing difficulties. Mailbox Analyser helps firms…
QuantHouse Partners with QUOD to Enhance AI-Driven Trading Algorithms & TCA
Iress’s QuantHouse division has formed a strategic global partnership with multi-asset trading technology provider QUOD Financial. Under the agreement, QuantHouse will supply low-latency and historical market data to QUOD, which will be utilised for back-testing and optimisation of QUOD’s AI-driven trading algorithms, and to facilitate real-time, highly accurate transaction cost analysis (TCA) at the point…
Evolving with the Market: Technology Strategies for Modern Sell Side Firms
When making strategic decisions regarding trading technology, sell-side firms such as investment banks and brokers face some difficult choices. Their technology platforms must do more than just meet their internal needs, such as; accessing liquidity on multiple trading venues, managing diverse asset classes, facilitating high touch and low touch order flow, providing their sales traders…
Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange Adopts ION’s XTP Technology for Energy Transition Markets
The Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse has selected ION’s XTP technology to support its new market initiatives aimed at the ongoing energy transition. The Abaxx Exchange, which commenced trading in Singapore on 28 June, has collaborated with ION to deliver secure and scalable post-trade clearing and risk management solutions. The Abaxx Exchange introduces five…
Liquidnet and Boltzbit Collaborate, Utilising GenAI to Accelerate Bond Primary Markets Workflow by 90%
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has partnered with AI startup Boltzbit to enhance its fixed income primary markets workflow, using generative AI (GenAI) technology to reduce the time required to process unstructured deal data and prepare bonds for trading, by 90%. The collaboration accelerates the processing and display of newly announced bond deals by…
QUODD Enhances QX Digital Platform with S&P Global Bond Data Integration
QUODD, the market data on-demand provider, has upgraded its QX Digital Platform to incorporate comprehensive bond data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, reinforcing its end-of-day global pricing and reference data service for wealth management clients through its QX Automate API. QUODD’s QX Digital Platform gives customers access to market data functionality and content for front,…
Iress and Dow Jones Enhance Real-Time Market News Integration
Iress has extended its partnership with Dow Jones Newswires, enabling Iress news subscribers to access real-time market news across all asset classes and geographies. This service will be seamlessly integrated into customer workflows through Iress’s market data and trading software. The partnership ensures that Iress’s global market data and trading customers can access premium content…
DTCC Launches Public-Facing VaR Calculator for FICC
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has introduced a new public-facing Value at Risk (VaR) calculator, designed to assist market participants in assessing potential margin and Clearing Fund obligations associated with membership in DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) Government Securities Division (GSD). The launch of the tool is timely, with U.S. Treasury clearing…