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MarketAxess to Acquire Quantitative Trading Tech Provider Pragma
MarketAxess Holdings Inc., the electronic trading platform operator for fixed-income securities, has agreed to acquire quantitative & algorithmic trading technology specialist Pragma. Pragma provides broker-neutral, multi-asset trading & execution solutions across equities, FX and fixed-income, and is used by asset managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers, banks, and exchanges across the globe. It managed over $2 trillion…
The Future for Trading in the Cloud
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. If the picture of cloud adoption by trading firms and market services providers is a little grey today, is the outlook brighter tomorrow? A survey of 20 capital markets organisations commissioned by Rapid Addition and conducted by A-Team Group suggests the mixed appetite for public cloud could change if…
big xyt and JSE Establish Joint Venture to Market New Data Analytics Platform
big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest stock exchange, have established a joint venture, big xyt ecosystems. The new company will make the Trade Explorer data analytics platform, initially launched in South Africa, available to other trading venues and financial centres worldwide. The…
Guardian Capital Selects FactSet and DataRobot to Boost Analytics Platform
Guardian Capital LP’s i3 Investments Team, a portfolio management team within Guardian Capital that combines AI with human intelligence for stock selection, has chosen FactSet’s Programmatic Environment (FPE) and DataRobot to enhance its analytics platform and improve end-to-end quant workflow. The relationship enables i3 Investments to combine FactSet’s quantitative product suite for factor creation and…
A-Team Group Releases Institutional Digital Assets Handbook
A-Team Group has this week released the first edition of the Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023, an in-depth guide to the institutional digital assets landscape for trading technologists. Financial institutions have demonstrated a marked and noticeable growth in interest in digital assets in recent years. With the potential for assets of all types to be…
Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now…
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather…
IPC Systems and CryptoStruct Collaborate to Enhance Connexus Crypto Ecosystem with Enterprise-Grade Data
Communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions provider IPC Systems has partnered with CryptoStruct, a low latency cryptocurrency market data and trading solution vendor. The collaboration aims to deliver enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus Crypto ecosystem and further strengthens IPC’s crypto offering following the company’s recently-announced partnership with Kaiko. Connexus Crypto, launched in November 2021, is IPC’s…
McKay Brothers Launches Ultra-Low Latency Cboe UK Equities Data Service at London Stock Exchange
McKay Brothers International SA (MBI) has launched its latest low latency market data service, now offering Cboe UK cash equities raw data at the London Stock Exchange through its wireless QRD service at what the company claims is the lowest known latency. The service brings together data from Cboe UK’s CXE and BXE feeds in…
The Six Key Technology Challenges Facing the Trading Stack
By Dave Carson, Head of Field Engineering at DiffusionData. The challenges I want to discuss are those that are affecting every trading participant today, including exchanges, data providers, banks and hedge funds. These include: Controlling the Firehose of Data With the rise of electronic trading, data volumes have spiralled. As technology continues to advance, so…