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Case Study: How Liquidnet Deployed OpenFin for Investment Analytics Unit
Desktop integration specialist OpenFin has published a case study mapping out how Liquidnet deployed its platform to develop a single application uniting three of its key data and analytics offerings. The project aimed to bring together the respective capabilities of the OTAS Technologies, Prattle and RSRCHXchange units, which Liquidnet combined into a single entity called…
Natwest Markets Taps ipushpull for PPQ Price Negotiation Tool
Natwest Markets has implemented ipullpull’s PPQ (Pushpull Quotes) for price negotiation of non-standard and complex trades. PPQ is a pre-trade workflow tool that automates the negotiation process between the buy and sell side. It uses messaging networks like Symphony and standardised syntax within private bilateral chats to allow trading and sales to communicate detailed pricing…
A-Team Webinar to Address Challenges of Deploying Market Data in the Cloud
The past year has witnessed a surge in interest in co-opting cloud technologies as a sourcing, hosting and distribution mechanism for market data. Firms seeking to migrate their market data infrastructure to the cloud, however, face significant challenges, particularly in the context of real-time data for fast-moving markets. A-Team’s February 25 webinar – ‘Approaches to…
Practitioners Discuss Use of Cloud Technologies for Signal Extraction
Capital markets firms’ appetite for cloud technologies is growing apace, driven by the promise of improved efficiency, reduced costs, faster development of new products and services, and the ability to do all of this at scale. Cloud usage within the financial markets is growing across a wide range of business areas. Firms are exploring how…
TA Associates Sells ITRS Stake to Montagu Private Equity
Montagu Private Equity has agreed to acquire a majority position in ITRS Group, a global provider of real-time monitoring and analytics software, from TA Associates, which will remain a minority holder alongside Montagu and Management. Financial terms were not disclosed but completion is expected next month, subject to regulatory approvals.London-headquartered ITRS Group has over 3,000…
The Deal is Done – LSEG Completes Acquisition of Refinitiv
A big day in the City last Friday as the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) completed its all-share acquisition of Refinitiv first mooted back in July 2019. The acquisition is expected to create a leading, UK-headquartered, global financial market infrastructure provider with a strong data and analytics business, significant capital market capabilities across multiple asset…
Crux Informatics Closes $36 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Growth
New York-based Crux Informatics has raised $36 million of new funding from its existing investors, which include Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Two Sigma. The financial data delivery platform operator, founded in 2017, has also announced two new products: Crux Protect and Crux Wrangle. Crux specialises in providing a high-scale, fast, and cost-effective data…
Data Management for Analytics and Market Surveillance
Big Data pervades every aspect of our lives, whether in support of smartphone apps or more sophisticated AI techniques used across many industries. The financial services segment is no exceptions, and the explosion of data in financial markets is posing new opportunities and challenges to deploy analytics for better trading decisions and more effective surveillance….
2021: Brexit, No Equivalence and the Day of the SEF
By Kirston Winters, Managing Director – MarkitSERV, IHS Markit. The transitional period ended on 31 December with no relief for European Union (EU) firms on the derivatives trading obligation (DTO) from the European Commission (EC) and only limited adjustments from the United Kingdom (UK). This left many firms with conflicting and incompatible DTOs in the…
BMLL Expands Distribution Ecosystem with Kx Platform
London-based analytics specialist BMLL Technologies’ new partnership with First Derivatives’ Kx will make BMLL’s data and analytics available via the Kx Streaming Analytics platform, which is used by many of the world’s major global financial institutions. The arrangement gives BMLL a significant new distribution channel as it continues its expansion in the wake of last…