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The EU’s DLT Pilot Has Gone Live: What Does This Mean for Capital Markets?
With the EU’s DLT pilot regime now live, Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3, examines the impact the programme will have on capital markets and what the launch means for the broader digitalisation of financial services. Against a backdrop of rising international competition, economic headwinds and technological innovation, jurisdictions across the globe are racing to…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2023
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2023. The awards, now in their third year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Moody’s Analytics…
How to Control Access to Single Dealer Portals and Other Market Services
Against the backdrop of rapid adoption of electronic trading across cash asset classes that aren’t typically traded on exchanges, financial institutions are struggling to control access to external trading portals and platforms, and other market services. This phenomenon is presenting a particular challenge in fixed income and foreign exchange markets, where single dealer portals that allow…
Breaking the Dominance of the 4pm Fix: Alternative Approaches to FX Benchmarks
Introduction Since the mid-1990’s, foreign exchange (FX) benchmarks have played a crucial role in providing standardised FX valuation points, which are used for a wide variety of purposes by financial markets participants across the industry. Over the last decade however, particularly in the wake of the Libor scandal of 2012 and the FX fixing scandal…
Parameta Solutions Partners with Numerix to Deliver OTC Valuations
Parameta Solutions, the provider of OTC indicative and trade data, is partnering with Numerix, the global OTC analytics and derivatives pricing company, to develop automated, independent, fair valuations of OTC derivatives to market participants. By bringing together Parameta’s OTC data alongside Numerix’s analytical capabilities, the partnership aims to provide a more effective way of valuing…
Tallarium Secures Additional Investment from XTX Ventures and Reciprocal
Tallarium, a provider of specialised trade analytics for price discovery in off-exchange energy markets, has secured an additional $1.6million investment from XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of algorithmic trading company XTX Markets, and Reciprocal, a venture capital firm. The investment will support the company’s goal of becoming the definitive pricing source for the energy…
Recorded Webinar: Transforming Data Experiences in Quantitative Research and Trading
For quantitative researchers and quant trading teams at banking and capital markets firms, the ability to access, integrate, and share data is critical. Data and how teams collaborate with data underpins the ability to generate alpha, perform execution analyses, and provide a modern and differentiated client experience. However, for most banks, legacy technology stacks and…
How Banks Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility
Financial services are recognizing the benefits that data-led processes can bring and are undergoing digital transformations that are putting data at the heart of their operations and decisions-making processes. They are seizing on data as an asset whose value can be unlocked through technology to increase revenue and reduce costs across the entire enterprise. With…
DiffusionData Receives £1 Million Investment from NEDCF
DiffusionData, the real-time data streaming and messaging platform formerly known as Push Technology, has received a £1 million funding package from The North East Development Capital Fund (NEDCF). Supported by the European Regional Development Fund and managed by Maven Capital Partners, the investment will enable DiffusionData to continue with new product development and quality focus,…
OSTTRA and FIA’s DMIST Establish Post-trade Data Standards for Exchange-Traded Derivatives
OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions company and a member of the FIA’s Derivatives Market Institute for Standards (DMIST), is working with DMIST members to identify a data standard for post-trade processing of exchange traded derivatives (ETD). The application of a common data standard is required to increase data quality, create operational efficiency, and reduce systemic…