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Canadian Regional Desjardins Group Taps SmartTrade to Automate FX Work Flows
Canadian regional financial services group Desjardins has selected smartTrade’s LiquidityFX foreign exchange trading platform, as the basis for an end-to-end solution to automate its institutional and retail FX workflows across all divisions of the bank. The implementation is characteristic of growing demand smartTrade says it is facing from regional banks, many of which are ‘greenfield’…
The Cloud Has Important Trading Use Cases, Say Speakers at TradingTech Summit 2020
The rapidly evolving role of the cloud within trading operations at financial services organizations was one of the key themes of TradingTech Summit 2020, an A-Team Group event, held in London in late February. Over the course of the day, speakers addressed a wide range of aspects of cloud usage within the overall technology infrastructure…
Refinitiv Launches Tick History in Google Cloud to Speed Access and Lower Storage Costs
Refinitiv has made its archive of historical pricing and trade data – five petabytes’ worth of information – available to clients via the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The offering will allow customers will also be able to access, query and analyse Refinitiv’s tick data using the machine learning capabilities of Google Cloud’s BigQuery. The move…
Genesis Names Oliveira to Head Sales and Marketing
Low-code development enabler Genesis has named Felipe Oliveira as global head of sales and marketing. Genesis’ platform supports the development of microservices in capital markets. Oliveira previously held senior roles at Amber Capital Management, a risk arbitrage hedge fund, and Agora Senior Securities, acquired since by Banco Bradesco. More recently, he has held commercial strategy…
Trading Tech Summit 2020: Optimism for Technology Amid the Continued Regulatory Change
Trading technology professionals can look forward to a year of demanding – and exciting – change, according to speakers and panellists at this week’s A-Team Trading Tech Summit in London. UK- and EU-based firms can expect more regulatory developments – brought about by Brexit, the so-called MiFID II Refit and changes to Market Abuse Regulation…
Cutting Through the Noise: How to Identify True Outsourced Trading
By Andrew Walton, Head of European Business at Tourmaline Partners. More than 18 months into the era of MiFID II, it is now clear how this key piece of European regulation has fundamentally changed the business models of both brokers and investment firms. Buy-side firms in particular are required to have greater systems and controls…
CJC Launches DACS in the Cloud, Prepares for More Offerings
London-based market data consultancy CJC has launched a cloud-based managed service for Refinitiv’s Data Access Control System (DACS) platform, at the same time confirming a new technology partnership with Google Cloud aimed at supporting CJC’s overall cloud strategy. By making DACS in the cloud a viable proposition, CJC hopes to eradicate entitlement management as an…
US SEC Seeks Fairer Market Data Access, Deeper Data in SIP Feeds
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is calling for reforms that would level the playing field for access to market data. In a bid to narrow the differential between those with access to high-cost data feeds that contain a greater depth of information, and other investors in the marketplace, the SEC proposals would subject…
IOSCO Calls for Parity on Crypto-Asset Trading Platform Scrutiny
Crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs) such should be subject to the same kinds of standards that other types of trading platforms are, according to a new report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The report – Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms – suggests that regulators look at: access to…
New FX Spot Benchmark Launched by Raidne to Fix Past Challenges
Outsourced trading services specialist Raidne has teamed up with New Change FX to launch a new foreign exchange fixing benchmark aimed at providing an alternative to the WM/Reuters (WMR) benchmark, which has been at the centre of ongoing manipulation allegations. The new Siren benchmark has been designed to reduce the risk of abuse that has…