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EBS Readies Next-generation EBS Direct Platform
EBS, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, and part of CME Group, has launched a next-generation EBS Direct platform with enhanced capacity and speed that will deliver round trip processing times below 50 microseconds. The platform is in beta-testing and is designed to offer faster market data and…
Bloomberg Adds Equity Benchmarks, Introduces ESG Index Family
Bloomberg has added US equity benchmark capabilities to its existing set of fixed income, commodity and currency indices. The move is a response to investor requests and designed to help existing index clients meet their needs across a wider range of asset classes. The equity offering includes the Bloomberg US Large Cap Index (ticker: B500)…
Best Execution: Putting your Worst Foot Forward?
By Justin Lyon, Founder and CEO of Simudyne. Increased regulatory pressure has raised the bar for both sell-side brokers and investment managers. In Europe, MiFID II increased responsibility on sell-side firms, with the directive ratcheting up the prevention, detection and containment of algorithms that might behave in an unintended manner and contribute to disorderly trading…
QuantHouse Adds SpiderRock Data and Analytics to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added SpiderRock Gateway Technologies’ proprietary data and analytics service including implied volatility and option prints to the 150+ data sources available through QuantHouse API. SpiderRock provides option analytics as a service delivered in a normalised binary format. As part of the offering, the company delivers implied volatility, greeks, risk slides, and volatility surfaces…
London Stock Exchange Rejects $37 Billion Acquisition Bid from Hong Kong Exchange
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has rejected the $37 billion conditional acquisition proposal made by Hong King Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to acquire the entire share capital of the London exchange last week saying it has ‘fundamental concerns about the key aspects of the conditional proposal’. These include the strategy, deliverability, form of consideration…
Bloomberg Extends Availability of B-PIPE in the AWS Cloud to Europe and Asia
Bloomberg is replicating the US release of its B-PIPE real-time market data feed in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud in Europe and Asia. While a few clients are in production and others are working to get up and running in the US, Bloomberg is testing B-PIPE in the cloud in Tokyo and London with…
Vela Expands on Plans to Extend Reach of SuperFeed and Add New Data Types
Vela’s investment in its SuperFeed market data feed will extend the feed’s reach and add new data types, but what is the rationale behind the roadmap? We caught up with Vela CEO Jen Nayar to find out more. While SuperFeed already delivers high-quality normalised real-time market data and offers a blend of fast delivery and…
EOSE Responds to Financial Firms’ Growing Interest in Monetising Data
EOSE, a specialist services firm set up a year ago to help financial institutions commercialise their market data, has clocked up its fifth client, the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the largest derivatives exchange in the Middle East. EOSE will support the exchange in enhancing the market data segment of its business, while the…
Responses Split on ESMA Consultation Paper on a Consolidated Tape and Market Data
Responses to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) July consultation paper on the establishment of a consolidated tape (CT) for equity instruments are starting to surface, and the views they express diverge greatly. While some industry participants are very much in favour of a CT, others are strongly against the idea. The road to…
Glue42 Extends into Asia Pacific
Glue42, provider of a simplified desktop experience and interoperability for financial institutions, has made a reseller agreement with Chelmer to extend the connectivity of the desktop and its footprint into Asia Pacific. As part of its latest release, the company’s desktop users’ apps can now interoperate with third-party websites and web apps through browser extensions,…