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Northern Trust and Two Sigma Partner to Provide Quantitative Analytics to Asset Allocators

Northern Trust and Two Sigma have entered into a strategic agreement to offer quantitative analytics through Venn, Two Sigma’s cloud-based investment analytics platform, to Northern Trust’s clients. The partnership provides asset allocators with enhanced portfolio insights and analytics, and aims to allow them to make better investment decisions. Under the agreement, Northern Trust will offer…

BidFX Launches Data & Analytics Suite for Insight into FX Pricing, Market Impact & Liquidity

BidFX, a provider of cloud-hosted electronic trading solutions for the foreign exchange markets, has launched BidFX Data and Analytics to complement its existing EMS, risk and compliance modules and TCA offerings. The new Data and Analytics suite has been designed to give clients a comprehensive view of the pricing, market impact and liquidity for every…

Neuravest Harnesses AI, Alt Data for Portfolio Construction Platform to Improve Fund Performance

Neuravest Research, the data validation and predictive analytics company launched earlier this year as a successor to Lucena Research, has released a portfolio construction and management platform designed to help asset managers deliver superior fund performance through algorithmic portfolios using alternative data and AI technologies. According to Neuravest founder and CEO Erez Katz, the offering…

Quod Financial Launches Middle Office Suite to Automate Trading Workflow

Quod Financial has added a middle office component to its multi-asset OMS/EMS platform, aimed at allowing customers to automate complex trading workflows. Quod Middle Office is a hosted STP platform that seeks to address inefficient manual processes across all asset classes including equities, derivatives, foreign exchange and fixed income, as well as digital assets. The…

Market Data Invoice and Inventory Managed Services

Financial institutions are subscribing to an ever-growing list of information services in their efforts to keep abreast of increasingly complex global markets. This is adding to the burden of managing relationships with existing data vendors, whose licensing agreements and invoices are also growing in complexity. Firms’ appetite for cloud-delivered services and the trend toward working…

A-Team Webinar: A Checklist for Migrating Market Data to the Cloud

As firms and data vendors increasingly look into migrating their market data infrastructures towards the cloud, which types of data are best suited to cloud delivery and what are the business use cases? What kind of cloud options are available and how can firms best utilise them? And what challenges do they face along the…

TRG Screen Acquires J&J’s Reporting Platform to Complement Axon ADS

TRG Screen has added to its inventory of market data management and administration capabilities with the acquisition of Jordan & Jordan’s Market Data Reporting (MDR) business. The MDR managed services solution complements the Axon Declaration Service (ADS) TRG Screen acquired through its 2019 purchase of Axon, strengthening its reporting offering particularly in the US and…

Rapid Addition Teams with Overbond to Boost Bond Market Automation

Hot on the heels of its recently announced partnership with Valantic, AI-driven data and analytics provider Overbond has forged a strategic alliance with London-based trading technology provider Rapid Addition. The combination is aimed at bringing interoperability and market connectivity to bond trading automation. The idea behind the collaboration is to facilitate greater automation of the…

Technology Trends in Institutional FX

By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. Daily trading volumes in global foreign exchange markets topped $1.79 trillion in November 2020, according to CLS, making FX by far the most heavily traded asset class. Most of this trading volume is executed either indirectly through electronic platforms or bilaterally between counterparties, rather than on traditional ‘exchange-type’ venues….

Recorded Webinar: Approaches to migrating market data to the cloud to drive agility in trading operations

Market data in the cloud is an attractive proposition in terms of reducing the cost of on premise servers and storage, and moving into a more agile and flexible data delivery environment. It is also well suited to working from home, the fall-back of many financial institutions during lockdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But…