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EU Policy Adviser Dr David Doyle Outlines TradingTech Summit Keynote on Impact of EU Regulation
With Brexit just a day away and the EU regulatory agenda for 2020 beginning to unfold, we talk to EU Policy Adviser for Financial Services Regulation, Dr David Doyle, about his expectations for the year ahead, the impact of Brexit on the UK trading industry, and potential amendments to MiFID II. To find out more…
Liquidnet Names Sanders to Lead New Investment Analytics Business Combining OTAS, Prattle, RSRCHXchange
Agency broker Liquidnet has consolidated its recently acquired technology assets into a single business unit focusing on investment analytics. The new unit – headed by Vicky Sanders, global head of investment analytics – comprises the OTAS Technologies (2017), Prattle (2019) and RSRCHXchange (2019) businesses, which were acquired over the past three years. Liquidnet Investment Analytics…
AxeTrading Addresses Best Execution for Fixed Income with Addition of Overbond Analytics
Bond trading software provider AxeTrading has teamed up with fixed-income analytics specialist Overbond to add its COBI pricing analytics to the AxeTrader execution management system (EMS). The arrangement reflects growing demand for analytics to support pricing evidence as regulations like MiFID II sharpen the focus on best execution within the fixed-income arena. The integration allows…
Xignite Offers Trade Data in AWS Data Exchange
In late January, Xignite announced that their financial data APIs are available in AWS Data Exchange, a new service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Other qualified data providers working with AWS Data Exchange include Reuters and Dun & Bradstreet. Xignite…
TickSmith Renames TickVault to TickSmith GOLD
TickSmith has renamed its Big Data platform, TickVault, as TickSmith GOLD – gather, organise, leverage and distribute. GOLD manages thousands of data sets representing petabytes of data and the change was made to accurately represent how the platform works from the moment data is ingested, to the moment it is distributed. Also to also highlight…
Charles River Integrates Investment Management Solution with ChartIQ
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, has integrated its investment management solution, Charles River IMS, with ChartIQ, enabling the company to provide institutional traders with visualisation tools that deliver greater insight into data around investment decisions. The integration helps traders conduct pre-trade technical analysis, gauge in-trade market impact and better understand post-trade execution quality….
Exegy Delivers Website Reporting Performance and Value of Signum Real-time Trading Signals
Exegy, a provider of low-latency market data solutions and predictive analytics, has released a new website providing daily reports on the performance and value of its Signum portfolio of real-time trading signals. One report estimates the net price improvement in US equity trades that is achievable when using Exegy’s Quote Vector, which accurately predicts the…
BMO Acquisition of Clearpool Adds Holistic Trading Platform, Algo Management System and Broker-dealer
Clearpool, a New York-based provider of holistic electronic trading solutions and an independent agency broker-dealer, has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by BMO Financial Group, parent of BMO Capital Markets. Clearpool expects the acquisition to accelerate development of its trading technology and provide infrastructure to become a global provider of a multi-asset electronic…
Digital Assets, Crypto Products and AI will Reshape Trading Industry
Digital assets and artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape the trading industry as clients show increasing interest in trading digital assets and traders expect AI to take the market in one of two ways – either creating more trading opportunities for traditional equities and reducing the cost of trading, or creating more volatile market conditions. According…
US SEC’s Radical Overhaul of Consolidated Tape Sparks Debate on Future of Equity Market Data
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) consultation on the future of the three consolidated tapes that are produced for equity trading could lead to a radical shake up of the consolidated tape system – or the disappearance of the consolidated tape completely. The industry debate may become intense, as the outcome may have ramifications…