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Goldman Sachs Distributes TT Platform to Clients
Goldman Sachs has contracted with Trading Technologies International (TT) to distribute the TT platform to its client base. This gives Goldman Sachs’ clients access to the TT platform’s range of trading tools, including Autospreader and TT’s advanced options analytics functionality. Clients can also access Goldman Sachs’ suite of internally developed execution algorithms via the TT…
Hong Kong Exchange $37 Billion Bid for London Stock Exchange Scuppers Latter’s Merger Plan with Refinitiv
The Hong Kong Exchange’s $37 bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) came out of the blue this morning, but has since rattled cages and raised questions about the LSE’s proposed $27 billion merger with Refinitiv, whether a deal of this sort would be acceptable to regulators, and how LSE shareholders will react to the…
RavenPack Deploys AI to Detect Relationships Between Securities and Market-moving Events
RavenPack has built on its commitment to make Artificial Intelligence (AI) practical for quantitative and fundamental investors looking for alpha with the release of RavenPack Connections, a service that automates finding relationships between securities and market-moving events. The service provides real-time research to expose business relationships and interconnections among thousands of entities including companies, organisations,…
QuantHouse Adds Goldman Sachs SIGMA X MTF Data to API Ecosystem
Goldman Sachs has teamed up with QuantHouse to accelerate market data distribution from its SIGMA X European multilateral trading facility (MTF). The data is accessible via the QuantHouse API Ecosystem and can be used to identify auctions and find potentially untapped, addressable liquidity. SIGMA X MTF offers deep and diverse liquidity on the basis of…
genesis Adds Post-Trade Products, Plans Platform-as-a-Service Solution
genesis has brought its microservices framework, business component library and development acceleration tools to post-trade operations with a view to helping both sell-side and buy-side firms automate workflows and improve operational efficiency. The post-trade portfolio adds to other trading products built by genesis with anchor clients and then made available to the market, and will…
DTCC and Accenture Deliver Governance Operating Model for Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC and Accenture have introduced a distributed ledger technology (DLT) governance operating model to manage the risks and consequences of the technology, ensure the safety and soundness of the network for the benefit of all participants, and better enable DLT to reach its full potential. The model is also a critical component of DTCC’s Trade…
Creating an Algo Gym
By Justin Lyon, Founder and CEO of Simudyne. Sell-side firms are finding themselves extremely challenged in algo pre-production. According to our recent survey of 15 sell-side executives involved in algo trading, modeling is the most common, significant and recurring issue in algo pre-production – with many concerned that this is holding them back competitively. The…
IPC and Cloud9 Partner to Deliver Voice Trading and Collaboration Solution
IPC and Cloud9 Technologies are working together to offer an advanced, open voice trading and collaboration solution. The integrated cloud-based service combines Cloud9’s C9 Trader voice communications and analytics platform with IPC’s Unigy trading communications platform and Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem. The aim of the partnership is to provide the global trading community with a…
Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg?
By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With…
Addressing the Data Issues of Best Execution Under MiFID II and Other Global Regulations
By Peter Lawrey, CEO at Chronicle Software. Regulated trading systems need to record the reasons behind every decision they make with minimal impact on performance. Chronicle Software has worked with investment banks and hedge funds to deliver trading services with a record everything model and low microsecond latencies. Today’s more stringent regulatory environment is placing…