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A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2022

A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second 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 Bloomberg, oneZero,…

Benefiting from Advanced Execution in US Treasury Markets

The expanded footprint of electronic non-bank liquidity providers (NLPs) and established broker/dealers, as well as the proliferation of electronic aggregation platforms, are all adding complexity to fixed-income markets, which as a result are starting to resemble established electronic markets like equities and foreign exchange. For market participants, this has added to the challenge of sourcing…

CQG Rolls Out New Cloud-Based Trading and Analytics Platform

Trading technology solutions provider CQG is conducting a phased roll-out of its new cloud-based trading platform, CQG One. The platform is designed for professional traders and institutional investors, and combines design features of the firm’s retail-oriented CQG Desktop platform with market data, charting, visualization and advanced analytics features of CQG Integrated Client, its professional trading…

Bloomberg Provides Real-Time Access to B-Pipe on Google Cloud

Bloomberg has collaborated with Google to enable mutual customers to access B-Pipe, Bloomberg’s real-time market data feed, through Google Cloud. The collaboration with Google provides customers with cloud access to real-time market data and analytics, for 35 million instruments, over 330 exchanges and 80 billion ticks a day. Bloomberg claims that it is the only…

Ediphy Working on Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Prototype with 10+ Financial Institutions

UK-based data analytics provider Ediphy Analytics is working with a group of financial institutions to finalise the development of its Consolidated Tape (CT) prototype, with the aim of tendering for the role of official European non-equity Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) next year. Ediphy says it’s in discussions with more than 10 major institutions across the…

Get Ready for A-Team Group’s Announcement of This Year’s Innovation Award Winners

Excitement is mounting in anticipation of next week’s announcement of the winners of A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second 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…

The Modernisation Imperative

In today’s fast-paced financial markets, institutions face a number of challenges. As well as having to cope with shrinking margins and ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny, firms are having to process more data from more sources than ever before, all in an increasingly competitive landscape. With everything moving so fast and changing so often, financial institutions are…

Top 10 Cloud-Based Trading Environments in 2022

In a time when the drive to shift to cloud-based trading environments is at an all time high due to the covid-19 pandemic, it is useful to look at which firms offer the best solutions. A cloud-based trading environment offers flexibility and business continuity by allowing traders to work from anywhere. Gone are the days…

Bloomberg AIM Integrates with Elwood Technologies for Crypto Trading

Bloomberg has added access to Elwood Technologies’ cryptocurrency trading platform via its Bloomberg AIM order management system (OMS). Through the integration, Elwood’s institutional cryptocurrency trading capabilities will combine with Bloomberg’s data, analytics and workflow tools, enabling users on the AIM platform to capture and manage their crypto investments alongside their other assets. Elwood will adopt…

Riding the Retail Trading Technology Revolution

Retail trading in financial markets has enjoyed remarkable growth in recent years. Retail investors were estimated to account for between one-quarter and one-third of all trading in US equities in 2021. Among the enablers of this Retail Revolution has been the ubiquity of digital trading apps and zero-commission accounts. This has been aided by easier…