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Intelligent Trading Summit Considers Potential of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning

Predictive analytics, machine learning and sentiment analysis are making their way into the trading environment, but how useful are they and will they provide a new model for intelligent trading? These questions and more will be discussed at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York. Adrian Sharp, senior industry consultant, capital markets,…

Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses New Approaches to Execution Management

Trade execution has developed significantly over recent years, but there is more to come as firms apply additional intelligence to execution management with a view to gaining advantage in the market. Some approaches to improving execution management rely on new technologies, others on existing concepts, but all will be the subject of debate at next…

NovaSparks Adds NovaLink to Provide FPGA to FPGA Tick to Trade Link

NovaSparks has added NovaLink to its portfolio of field programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, creating an FPGA-to-FPGA tick to trade link that allows trading firms to receive NovaSparks ticker plant market data directly into their FPGA trading systems. NovaLink avoids the need for market data to be consumed by data server software and distributed using…

A-Team Webinar Discusses Approaches to Best Execution under MiFID II

The best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) present several challenges including the need to manage more data, time-stamp and sequence messages, and report in line with the regulation’s compliance mandate. Financial institutions that implemented the first iteration of MiFID after it came into force in 2007 may have a…

Oslo Børs Extends Stay in London Through Partnership with London Stock Exchange

Oslo Børs has evaluated its technology partnership with London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), which hosts the Norwegian exchange’s equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, and decided to extend the relationship for five years effective from April 2017. Oslo Børs is one of over 40 exchanges and venues that use LSEG’s Millennium Exchange platform, but unlike…

Velocimetrics VMX EndToEnd Offers Complete Business Process Tracking and Analysis

Velocimetrics has pulled together its data tracking and performance analysis technologies to deliver a single platform designed to help financial institutions track and analyse what is happening across complete business processes in real time. The platform, VMX EndToEnd, will be Velocimetrics’ strategic platform going forward and has been built in response to customer requests for…

Corvil Extends Data Capture Platform to Deliver Non-Intrusive MiFID II Solution

Corvil has extended its network data capture and analytics platform to deliver a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance solution that is applied as an overlay to existing infrastructure and integrates a lightweight agent that collects time-stamped events from software applications. The solution uses an independent system to gather precision data needed…

OneMarketData Adds Strategy Backtesting Platform to OneTick Product Portfolio

OneMarketData has introduced a strategy development and large-scale backtesting platform that is powered by the company’s OneTick data management and time series analytics solution and supported by global multi-asset class market history available through the OneTick Cloud. The platform is called OneTick Strategy Backtesting and is available immediately as either a hosted service or deployed…

Itiviti Develops Regulatory Compliance Platform for MAR and MiFID II

Itiviti is developing a regulatory compliance solution that will be delivered as a managed service, focus first on Europe’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), and then on Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The solution is based on Itiviti’s Tbricks high performance trading platform and the OneTick ticker plant provided by Itiviti partner One Market…

Fidessa Partners Alpha Omega to Support FIX-Based Post-Trade Processing

Fidessa has partnered Alpha Omega to tackle the cost and inefficiency of post-trade affirmation processing, promote use of the FIX protocol, and grow its global trading network. The partnership integrates Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), an industry utility that provides low-cost affirmation processing as an alternative to central matching, and Alpha Omega’s FIX based…