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TradingTech Summit Opens with Focus on Digital Transformation
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit, hosted in New York City earlier this week, opened with a focus on digital transformation and its impact on business. Simon Letort, chief digital officer and head of innovation at Société Générale Americas, presented a keynote covering innovation and digital change at the bank, and how it is building a shared…
Refinitiv Meets Demand for More Data on China’s Economy and Financial Markets
Refinitiv is responding to increasing client demand for content, data and insight on China’s economy and financial markets with the addition of 300,000 economic data series to its Datastream database, and FX and fixed income data from the China Foreign Exchange System (CFETS) to its Elektron and Eikon data platforms. These additions are part of…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight North America Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) North America Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in New York City on June 11, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading…
Velocimetrics Raises the Bar on Real-time Data Tracking and Analysis by Implementing InfluxDB in VMX EndToEnd
Velocimetrics has released version 9.0 of its VMX EndToEnd business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, making a step change in functionality and recognising the trading industry’s move towards devops and need for an holistic understanding of all data across the business, as well as a detailed view of specific trading processes. VMX EndToEnd…
Eventus Partners QuantHouse to Source Market Data
Eventus Systems has partnered QuantHouse, a global provider of systematic trading solutions including market data services that was recently acquired by IRESS, to use QuantFEED market data to support its Validus trade surveillance platform. The platform can be implemented on-premise or as a cloud solution based on Amazon AWS. Either implementation can be run in…
ULTUMUS Hires Femi Orangun
ULTUMUS, a provider of data creation, management and distribution services for index and ETF products, has hired industry veteran Femi Orangun. Orangun joins the company from DeltaOne Solutions, part of IHS Markit, and takes on the role of solutions architect with a remit to assist development of the ULTUMUS data platform and production of advanced…
Liquidnet Acquires Prattle on Heels of RSRCHXchange purchase
Liquidnet, a global institutional investment network, continues expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) investment analytics platform with the acquisition of Prattle, a provider of automated investment research solutions for portfolio managers and research analysts. The agreement builds on Liquidnet’s acquisition of RSRCHXchange, an aggregator of institutional research. In 2017, the company acquired OTAS Technologies. With…
London Stock Exchange Acquires Beyond Ratings
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has acquired Beyond Ratings, a provider of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data for fixed income, as part of continued investment in its Information Services business, which includes FTSE Russell. The acquisition offers an opportunity for LSEG to build out its multi-asset data and analytics capabilities by commercialising Beyond Ratings’…
SS&C upgrades Advent solutions
SS&C Technologies has released version 19.1 of its Advent portfolio management solutions. The Advent products, acquired in 2015, include Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), a portfolio accounting and reporting solution that includes a new API for portfolios and token-based authentication capabilities. APX regulatory reporting is also improved. Advent Genesis, a cloud-based rebalancing, portfolio construction and trade…
FRTB 2022 Deadline Proves Tricky for Firms and Regulators
Global regulatory implementation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) may be unevenly paced, creating challenges for financial institutions and regulators alike. FRTB was introduced to fix problems that both regulators and the industry perceived with so-called ‘Basel 2.5’ market risk changes, which were put in place…