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Intercontinental Exchange and KX Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Analytics for Financial Firms
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, has joined forces with KX, creator of the Data Timehouse and KDB.AI vector database, in order to utilise KX’s platform to offer real-time analytics on data from ICE’s Consolidated Feed and Consolidated History. The collaboration comes in response to the growing challenges…
QuantCube Data Integrated in MSCI’s New Economic Regime Allocator Index
Alternative data firm QuantCube Technology’s real-time macro-economic data will be used in the newly launched MSCI Economic Regime Allocator Index by MSCI Inc. The index moves assets into different categories based on the current economic regime, using a pre-defined set of rules. The goal is to enhance investment performance by rotating and reallocating assets as…
Quantitative Brokers Partners with Genesis Global to Launch Customised Algorithm Performance Monitoring Platform
Quantitative Brokers (QB), specialists in advanced execution algorithms for futures, options, and OTC fixed-income markets, has announced a strategic alliance with Genesis Global, a low-code application development platform for financial markets organisations. The collaboration aims to advance algorithm transparency, boost trader productivity, and establish a personalised algorithm performance monitoring platform tailored to QB’s clients’ specific…
Trading in the Public Cloud: Attitudes to Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets
Capital markets have been slow to embrace cloud technologies and in particular the public cloud. Practitioners have been wary of issues around speed/performance, privacy and cost, all of which can dampen the appeal of cloud technologies for trading firms. But broad acceptance of cloud beyond finance is highlighting some compelling benefits, primarily in terms of…
Powering the Future: The Transformation of Renewable Energy Trading through Technology
In a world seeking effective climate action, the spotlight is increasingly focusing on renewable energy. However, within financial markets, the trading of instruments such as biofuels, voluntary carbon credits and power purchase agreements remains complex and opaque. Advances in technology can lead to more automation, standardisation and transparency, but questions remain. How do we ensure…
LSEG Partners with Finmechanics to Launch Corporate Treasury Risk App
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has collaborated with Finmechanics, a Singapore-based financial solutions provider, to launch the Corporate Treasury Risk (CTR) app. The app aims to help corporate treasuries mitigate liquidity and market risks and reduce dependence on inefficient spreadsheet-based processes. CTR enhances LSEG’s Eikon and Workspace platforms with post-trade analytics such as cash and…
DiffusionData’s Real-Time Data Streaming Solution Now Available on AWS Marketplace
DiffusionData has announced that its real-time data streaming and messaging solution, Diffusion 6.9, is now available for download on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This move allows businesses using AWS to streamline the purchase and deployment of Diffusion, simplifying the process for development teams. Diffusion’s platform enables the consumption of raw data in any size,…
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence Launch Integrated Solution for Primary Bond Markets
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have unveiled an integrated solution aiming to streamline operations in the syndicated primary bond markets. The solution offers mutual clients of TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed income execution management system (EMS), and S&P Global Market Intelligence’s InvestorAccess platform, a comprehensive and optimised workflow for primary markets. The system ensures portfolio managers…
LIBOR Transition – The Final Countdown, and Why Data is Key
By Jim Mahn, Global Head of Product, TraditionData. With the USD London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) scheduled to be phased out by June 30th this year, its remnants have the capacity to cause disruptions as derivative contracts based on LIBOR will most likely still exist. Allied with the present economic conditions and the market volatility…
Obstacles to Cloud Adoption
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and discussed what the real world currently looks like, in earlier blogs (here, here and here). But practitioners accept that the journey to cloud isn’t entirely an easy one. Even for committed capital markets protagonists, cloud…