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IHS Markit Teams Up with Wave Labs to Enhance Fixed Income Price Discovery
IHS Markit has partnered with Wave Labs, a start-up specialising in fixed income liquidity sourcing, to accelerate price discovery and deliver insights and operating efficiencies to buy-side fixed income managers. The arrangement involves plug-and-play integration of IHS Markit’s thinkFolio multi-asset investment management platform with Wave Lab’s Electronic Liquid Seeking Application (eLiSA). Sourcing liquidity in fixed…
SoftSolutions! Migrates nexRates Fixed Income Platform to the Cloud
Milan-based fixed income trading technology provider SoftSolutions! has re-architected its nexRates electronic Trading-as-a-Service platform to be fully cloud-available. In the process, the company has completed an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Foundational Technical Review, meeting strict criteria around security, disaster recovery, resilience, and operational excellence. “The main driver behind this is that most of our Tier…
Firms Should Focus on Operational Resilience in Trading, Refinitiv Report Suggests
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the subsequent disruption caused by remote working and extreme market volatility, firms need to rethink their approach to operational resilience for their trading businesses, not only to ensure business continuity, but also to manage regulatory change and develop greater agility and efficiency. That’s the recommendation of a recently…
CJC Goes ‘Cloud First’, with Google Cloud Migration
CJC, specialists in market data technology consulting and services, has completed a full migration of its managed service tooling and products to the public cloud, and will now operate a ‘cloud-first’ policy for all internal systems and products. In the process, CJC has also migrated its client base to the public cloud. Previously, the company’s…
Push Technology Launches Diffusion Quick Start Pack to Shorten Event-Driven Development Cycles
California-based Push Technology, a data streaming and messaging solutions provider, has launched the Diffusion Quick Start Pack, a four to six week professional services engagement designed to significantly shorten the time it takes developers to deploy a production-ready application on the company’s Diffusion Intelligent Event-Driven Platform. As part of the package, the Diffusion software, worth…
Raidne Goes Live with Siren FX Benchmark
London-based Raidne has gone live with the first client for its recently launched Siren FX fixing benchmark. The quantitative FX surveillance says the independent benchmark – which was designed to offer an alternative to established fixes that have been subject to market manipulation – is being used by a European asset manager, executing through a…
Why the Future of FX is in the Cloud
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. The momentum behind cloud in financial services is building, and quickly. With big names such as IBM moving into the space, it signals that this is the future of financial markets infrastructure. Looking specifically at FX, there are many reasons to believe that firms are shifting towards this…
Glue42 Teams with Cloud9 to Integrate Voice Trading into Desktop Applications
London-based desktop automation specialist Glue42 has partnered with voice communication and analytics provider Cloud9 Technologies to deliver a full suite of voice trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace. The partnership aims to provide users with remote access to all trading floor connectivity and services, as well as secure access to voice data, counterparties and regulatory…
Data Marketplace IOWArocks adds Digital Asset Data from CryptoCompare as Institutional Demand Grows
London-based IOWArocks, the financial data marketplace launched by MDX Technology in 2019, has added CryptoCompare to its growing list of data providers. The demand for real-time, high-quality digital asset data is clearly growing, particularly among financial institutions. Earlier this month, the market capitalisation of the global cryptocurrency market hit $2 trillion for the first time,…
KX Adds Cloud-Native Stream Analytics to kdb+ as Clients Seek Off-Prem Solutions
KX has released KX Insights, a cloud native streaming analytics solution that provides fast, scalable real-time data insights without the capex and maintenance burden of on-premise infrastructure. KX Insights is built on the company’s cloud version of the kdb+ time series database and uses a microservices architecture that supports not only new KX users but…