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Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
Five Trading Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
The last couple of years have seen some significant shifts in the financial markets trading technology landscape. The impact of the global pandemic has forced many firms within the sector to fundamentally reassess their operational environments, and to accelerate their digitalisation and cloud initiatives. Crypto and digital assets have continued their forward march, as interest…
Intelligent Machine Readable News – How to Get a Signal from the Noise
Intelligent machine readable news is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trading firms seeking competitive advantage. It offers opportunities to turn unstructured data into actionable insight that can be used to uncover market trends, identify correlations and evaluate sentiment, but also raises challenges such as information sourcing, timing and contextualisation. A recent A-Team Group…
Wilshire Forms Digital Asset Advisory Group
Global investment technology and advisory company Wilshire has launched the Wilshire Digital Asset Advisory Group, to be chaired by Blythe Masters, founding partner at Motive Partners and ex-CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. The advisory group aims to bring together the world’s top digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights. The advisory group’s…
Ideal and Broadway Partner to Deliver Trading Analytics for Fixed Income
Analytics and decision support intelligence firm Ideal has partnered with front-office solutions vendor Broadway Technology, to deliver performance analytics and actionable insights to fixed income traders within Broadway’s secure environment. The partnership marks the latest move from Broadway to provide its clients with best-of-breed solutions, following the spin-off its fixed income business from ION last…
A-Team Webinar: Opportunities of New Approaches to Electronic Trading
In today’s capital markets environment, front-office traders face a number of challenges, not least of which are high costs, shrinking margins, increased regulatory oversight, and a multiplicity of siloed, often-legacy applications on the trading desk that can hamper workflows. Within this environment, firms need to be able to rapidly adapt: to the evolving needs of…
Why APIs Are Imperative for Systematic Trading
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director, TORA. Systematic trading has long been a feature of the financial markets. Even in the days before computers arrived on the scene, early systematic traders would use rule-based systems designed to remove human emotion from the trading process, generating trading signals and entry/exit points from a range of technical analysis…
Recorded Webinar: Opportunities of new approaches to electronic trading
Challenged by legacy systems, less than ideal workflows and high costs, front-office trading teams lack the ability to adapt to clients’ evolving needs around integration, speed and multi-asset capabilities. They are also challenged by a capital markets environment characterised by legacy systems, shrinking margins and increased regulatory scrutiny. While these problems cause considerable friction in…
FTX US Selects Eventus for Crypto Surveillance
US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange FTX US has selected Eventus Systems to conduct trade surveillance and risk monitoring on its cryptocurrency futures and options exchange and clearinghouse. FTX US Derivatives plans to leverage the alert coverage, trade practice investigation tools, and data tagging provided by Eventus’ Validus platform to monitor its listed derivatives market. In addition, FTX…
Bloomberg and Acadia Introduce Pre-Trade SIMM Calculations
Bloomberg and Acadia, specialists in risk management, have integrated Bloomberg’s Multi Asset Risk System (MARS) with Acadia’s IMEM (Initial Margin Exposure Manager) module. The integration will provide Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) pre-trade analytics, and will support Phase 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rule (UMR) obligations, part of the longstanding initial margin rule framework created…