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Liquidnet Launches Primary Markets for Electronic Trading of New Bond Issues
TP ICAP’s Liquidnet subsidiary has launched a platform to support electronic trading of new issues in fixed income markets. Liquidnet Primary Markets provides an electronic workflow for new issues in Debt Capital Markets (DCM), together with a new protocol for trading new issues. Integrated into the existing Liquidnet Fixed Income trading application, the solution provides…
TP ICAP’s Parameta Launches FX Evaluated Pricing Solution
Parameta Solutions, interdealer broker TP ICAP’s data and analytics business unit, has launched a new evaluated pricing solution that aims to deliver transparent and observable prices for foreign exchange derivatives securities globally, using a proprietary data model to give frequent and transparent indications. The FX Evaluated Pricing (FEP) service, which provides coverage for G10 and…
CQG Connects to Brazilian Exchange B3 for Trading and Market Data
Trading solutions provider CQG has added Brazilian Exchange B3, one of the world’s largest financial market infrastructure companies, to its global network of exchanges, enabling clients to obtain trading and market data access to the Brazilian markets for their listed commodities, interest rates, treasury, and equities products. B3 futures contracts are now live on the…
kACE Launches FX Volatility Aggregator in Partnership with Algorithmica
kACE, the FX technology unit operated by BGC Partners’ Fenics Software subsidiary, has partnered with quantitative analysis solutions vendor Algorithmica, to launch the kACE Volatility Aggregator (kACE VA) application. The solution is aimed primarily at buy- and sell-side firms, and corporate treasuries that consume FX Option volatilities and wish to customise the data they receive….
Giving Data a Voice: How NLP and AI are Unlocking a Massive Store of Bond Market Information
By Vuk Magdelinic, CEO of Overbond. The lack of a consolidated tape or any centralized, unified data source for the bond market creates trading inefficiencies and information asymmetries—and is one of the primary roadblocks to the full automation of fixed income trading. First steps are being taken to develop a consolidated tape for the European…
MarketDesk, SAFRAS & Mercado, and CTDI Partner to Launch New Brazil Soybean Index
Market data solutions provider MarketDesk has forged a partnership with SAFRAS & Mercado, the South American agrispecialists owned by CMA Group, and index solutions provider CTD Indices, to launch a new Soybean index, which is intended to provide a more reliable and transparent national benchmark price for the global commodities futures markets. Currently, the major…
The Rise and Rise of the Financial Data Marketplace
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. Data is often cited as the most essential resource in today’s global economy, with many of the world’s most valuable companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet profiting massively from how they collect, use and sell data. In financial markets, investment and trading firms have traditionally sourced…
CME Updates FX Market Profile Tool With Additional Futures Markets and Cash Equivalents
CME Group has updated its FX Market Profile analytics tool to provide live and historical analysis for 18 FX futures markets and cash equivalents. The tool provides comparisons between CME Listed FX futures and products from EBS Market and EBS Direct, on a side-by-side basis. Building on the 11 previously available, users can now analyse…
KX Names ex-TIBCO Executive Mark Bannon as President of Sales, North America
Mark Bannon has joined KX as president of sales, North America, with responsibility for the company’s growth in the region. He will partner the North America sales organisation across finance and other industries to meet growing need for ultra-high performance, real-time data analytics. Bannon joins KX from TIBCO and brings a mix of deep industry…
TradingTech Summit Virtual 2021: Watch the panel discussion – Accelerating digital transformation and migrating legacy apps to create a best in class trading environment
Panel: Accelerating digital transformation and migrating legacy apps to create a best in class trading environment Leveraging low code for trading system devops to enable the smart desktop, microservices and collaboration tools Managing legacy systems migration and transformation Leveraging open source, APIs to connect workflows and platforms Shift to automation: new tools, training and processes…