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Recorded Webinar: Market Data in the Cloud: Fuelling the next generation of data delivery solutions

Moving market data and infrastructure to the cloud has accelerated in recent years as financial firms have acknowledged the benefits of data accessibility, scalability, efficiency and the possibility of reducing sometimes sky-high costs of sourcing and managing the data. Market data in the cloud also offers a low-cost development environment and is finding use case…

How to Make the Most of Market Data

The challenges of sourcing, managing and monitoring market data are well rehearsed, but solutions are emerging as financial institutions zero in on their requirements, and data vendors respond. Short term, cost, coverage, accuracy, user rights and compliance are key concerns. Longer term, new approaches to market data such as pay-as-you-go pricing, packaged data and software…

Principal Financial Group Selects QUODD’s Universe+ for Tailored Market Data Access

QUODD, a market data on demand provider for the global financial services sector, has announced that Principal Financial Group has become part of its growing client base for the Universe+ platform. Universe+ is an API-driven, cloud-based solution offering comprehensive security pricing, reference data, and analytics across all asset classes, including mutual fund, equities, and fixed…

Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb Form Joint Venture to Pursue EU Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Provider Role

Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb have signed a joint venture agreement to form an independent company to participate in the public procurement procedure to become the fixed income consolidated tape provider (CTP) for the European Union, all of which will be subject to regulatory approvals. Neil Ryan, who has over three decades of experience in the…

Recorded Webinar: How to make the most of market data

Market data means different things to different organisations, it can be extremely expensive, and often comes with limited licensing contracts. It must be carefully sourced, governed, quality checked, and integrated. And it must be fit for purpose across a number of applications as it is increasingly used to not only meet regulatory obligations, but also…

Trading in the Cloud – Has Its Time Finally Come?

By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. The structure of capital markets and how they are traded have, to a large extent, been shaped through the technology adopted by market participants and service providers over the past two decades. And while some firms remain cutting edge, many are left operating legacy infrastructure characterised by high cost…

Taskize and Symphony Integrate to Streamline Financial Services Workflow

Taskize, a key provider of inter-company workflow in the financial services industry, has announced an integration with Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, aiming to enhance real-time collaboration between operations teams and front-office users. This pivotal partnership was unveiled and demonstrated at the Symphony Innovate London event, 2023. The integration promises to modernise industry…

TradingTech Briefing New York: Examining the Latest in Trading Technology

The TradingTech Briefing New York, an eagerly awaited event in the financial technology space, is scheduled for the afternoon of 8th June 2023 at Meet Hospitality, 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York. The event will bring together a diverse group of thought leaders, technology innovators, and industry insiders to discuss the cutting-edge trends and…

SIX Integrates with FlexTrade’s Spark EMS to Provide Real-Time Global Market Data

SIX, the worldwide financial data provider, and FlexTrade Systems, the multi-asset execution and order management systems vendor, have integrated real-time global market pricing and reference data from SIX into the Spark cloud-based Execution Management System (EMS). This collaboration enables traders utilising Spark EMS to stream real-time global market data across multiple platforms, including desktop, browser,…

DLT Has Potential to Transform Capital Markets, Says Joint Report by GFMA and Others

A new report co-authored by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Clifford Chance, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, underscores the transformative potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for capital markets. The report encourages market participants to actively mould the future application of DLT and urges policymakers to provide more precise…