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Trading Technologies Adds FairXchange Analytics to FX Platform
Trading Technologies (TT) has integrated FairXchange Horizon into its institutional FX platform, adding independent execution and liquidity analytics across spot FX, forwards, non-deliverable forwards and swaps. The integration gives clients access to FairXchange’s microstructural analytics directly within the TT platform, allowing them to measure execution quality, analyse trading flows and liquidity-provider performance, and assess counterparty…
The New Demands on Fixed Income Pricing Infrastructure
Fixed income pricing has always involved making sense of imperfect information. Liquidity is fragmented, many instruments trade infrequently and establishing fair value can require considerably more judgement than in more transparent markets. But the demands being placed on pricing and valuation infrastructure are changing. Firms increasingly need valuations that are not only accurate, but timely,…
TRG Screen Acquires S4 Market Data to Expand Managed Services
TRG Screen has acquired S4 Market Data, adding specialist vendor management, sourcing and negotiation expertise to its market data managed services business. The deal follows a year-long partnership under which S4 supported TRG Screen clients with vendor negotiations, contract optimisation and complex procurement, and comes in the wake of TRG Screen’s acquisition of market data…
Databento and the Consumerisation of Market Data
Institutional market data has long been associated with complex licensing, specialist infrastructure and lengthy procurement processes. Much of that complexity is unavoidable: exchange data can be technically demanding, commercially restricted and costly to distribute at scale. However, the expectation around how that data should be accessed is changing. As financial firms become more accustomed to…
TP ICAP’s Parameta Widens Data Arrangement with ICE
Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of TP ICAP Group, has expanded its data distribution agreement with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).The expansion allows ICE to distribute Parameta Solutions’ over-the-counter market data across rates, fixed income, foreign exchange, money markets and energy via its consolidated feed.The data is sourced from brokerage brands ICAP, Tullett Prebon and…
S&P Global Expands Collaboration with Microsoft to Integrate AI Data into Microsoft 365 Copilot
S&P Global has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI-ready data, analytics, and insights directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows and agentic tools. Powered by the S&P Global AI Data Portal’s Deterministic Retrieval solution – also known as the Kensho LLM-ready API – the system enables users to access verifiable and cited…
Exegy to Distribute EuroCTP’s Real-Time Shares and ETF Feed
Exegy will distribute EuroCTP’s real-time multicast FIX SBE feed, the EU’s first real-time pre- and post-trade Consolidated Tape for shares and ETFs, when it goes live on September 14th. Building on a technology partnership established in 2024, Exegy will serve as a redistribution partner for the feed. This includes the European Best Bid and Offer…
FutureSports and CME Look to Turn Sports Performance into a Tradable Asset Class
Professional sports could be about to acquire a new dimension as a financial asset class, with CME Group preparing to launch the first exchange-traded futures contracts based on the performance of National Hockey League (NHL) teams. The derivatives exchange plans to launch standard and micro-sized Hockey futures on September 28, pending regulatory review. The contracts…
AI is Redrawing “Build vs. Buy” for Trading Desk Models
By Rohan Douglas, CEO of Quantifi Solutions. As technology, and AI in particular, continues to evolve and reshape the finance industry, trading desks are reconsidering how they source, maintain and extend their risk, pricing and analytics model libraries. Historically, this has often been framed as a build-versus-buy decision. Do you develop and maintain your own…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…