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Prime Trading Implements Iress API Data and Trading Solution, Reducing Data Latency and Costs
Prime Trading, the privately held proprietary trading firm, has reduced its API data latency and costs as a result of implementing Iress’ API Data and Trading Solution, according to a recent announcement. As part of Prime Trading’s modernisation process, and to support its commitment to constantly seek out improvements for its end clients, the firm…
The Growing Adoption of Time-as-a-Service in Electronic Financial Markets
In electronic financial markets, time plays a critical role. The speed at which market data is processed, orders are generated and routed, and trades are executed, is today measured in milliseconds, microseconds and – in some cases – nanoseconds. This has led to the need for more granular measurement of time, more precision in the…
Parameta and PeerNova Launch ClearConsensus for Independent Price Valuation
Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova, a data analytics and management company, have partnered to launch ClearConsensus™, a transparent consensus network for Independent Price Valuation. The service aims to improve business resilience and regulatory response at global banks, by addressing the risk environments for price valuation and control…
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Adding Cloud to High Performance Trading Infrastructure
The cloud is playing an ever greater role in financial markets, and firms across the sector – buy side, sell side and trading venues – are increasingly looking at how to make best use of it within their trading infrastructure, given the benefits that cloud offers in terms of its elasticity & scalability, the rapid…
Adopting a Modern Data Infrastructure for Trading Analytics
As they seek an edge in their trading and investment activities, hedge funds and other sophisticated trading firms are looking to harness new sources of insight that can allow them to identify and exploit emerging market and industry opportunities. But many organizations are saddled with a disconnected sprawl of legacy systems that are unable to…
QuantCube Launches Liquefied Natural Gas Commodity Trade Indicator
Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology has launched a new QuantCube Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Commodity Trade Indicator, which aims to provide supply side commodity and energy futures traders with crucial insights at least one month in advance of official data, by tracking the import and export in volume of Liquefied Natural Gas. Harnessing automatic identification…
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at TORA Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an FX component operating alongside other asset classes. The FX market is highly fragmented and comprises multiple…
Solving the Multicast Challenge of Distributing Market Data in the Cloud
As cloud becomes increasingly widely adopted in the financial markets sector, one area of cloud migration that remains elusive is that of market data distribution. The key stumbling block is the fact that the industry almost exclusively relies on multicast for distributing real-time market data. Multicast is tried and tested, it works, it is well…
Pico Secures $200 Million Investment from Golden Gate Capital
Pico, provider of technology services, software, data and analytics for the financial markets community, has signed an agreement with Golden Gate Capital, the private equity investment firm, for a $200 million strategic investment. Pico will use the capital to pursue strategic M&A opportunities, and to extend its data offering and market coverage across all regions…
TRG Screen Launches Optimize Insights to Deliver Actionable Insights on Market Data Management
TRG Screen, the enterprise subscription management solutions vendor, has launched Optimize Insights, a suite of customisable dashboards and visualisations, designed to unlock data-driven intelligence and actionable insights into market data spend and usage. The new offering, which sits at the heart of TRG Screen’s Optimize platform for market data subscription management, launched in 2020, offers…