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Delivering Algo Performance through Enhanced Market Simulation
The global shift toward unbundling of research services from execution is forcing sell-side institutions to focus on differentiating their service offerings as they vie for buy-side liquidity in an increasingly competitive marketplace. With soft-commissioned research and high-speed connectivity to trading venues no longer potent as differentiators, the sell side is acknowledging that the quality and…
Iress Targets Europe with QuantHouse Purchase
Australian EMS/OMS platform provider Iress is expanding its European footprint with the acquisition of market data and connectivity provider QuantHouse. The move continues the ongoing consolidation in the trading systems space, and comes less than two years after QuantHouse bought itself out of an earlier, unhappy acquisition by S&P Global Markets. Iress, publicly listed on…
Clarity Partners to Market MDX, IOWA.rocks in APAC
Clarity Partners has been named as sales agent for MDX Technology (MDXT) and its IOWA.rocks affiliate in the APAC region. MDXT provides data and distribution solutions for the global trading community. IOWA.rocks is the new on-demand financial data marketplace for all content creators and content consumers. Under the terms of the agreement, Clarity Partners will…
Chronicle Software Releases Market Data, Stripped Back Messaging Microservices
Chronicle Software, which provides Java-based microservices for the capital markets space, has expanded its line of native C++ libraries and microservices to include a market data distributor and a stripped-back version of its Chronicle Queue persisted messaging solution. The two new capabilities – one at the application level and the other at the framework level…
The Race is on – Corvil’s Next-Generation Trade Execution Analytics Offer Competitive Advantage
Trade execution analytics are taking a leap forward with the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to machine-time data. Ultimate results could include the ability to understand, evidentially, the relationship between trading systems performance and trade outcomes. Corvil has been working for about two years to develop machine learning algos that can identify…
ChartIQ to Expand Finsemble Sales on Back of Citi Investment
ChartIQ, a Virginia-based player in the so-called ‘smart desktop’ segment, has received a strategic investment from client Citi, with specific focus on its Finsemble desktop interoperability offering. The company says it will use the Citi cash – which comes hot on the heels of a $17 million series B funding – to expand its sales…
How to Source and Manage Data for FRTB – The Challenges and Opportunities
Sourcing and managing data for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) compliance is no mean feat, but there are options and choices to be made as firms within the scope of the regulation build out compliance programmes ahead of its January 2022 deadline. A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent FRTB briefing in London…
Bloomberg Puts Stead in App Portal as Desktop Wars Heat Up
As the war for control over the trader desktop heats up, Bloomberg has been steadily diversifying the third-party applications available via its Bloomberg App Portal, an AppStore-like facility that allows users to access third-party data and applications through the Bloomberg Terminal. The Bloomberg App Portal isn’t new, it was launched with much fanfare (and some…
Alternative Data Gives Asset Managers Investing Edge
Some 71% of asset managers believe alternative data gives them an investing edge over competitors, according to a study by Greenwich Associates commissioned by IHS Markit. Around half of investment managers are using alternative data with another quarter planning to do so in the next 12 months, according to the research. Nearly 30% of quantitative funds…
Thasos Adds QStreams Alternative Data Covering Visitation Metrics Across 480 Companies’ Locations
Thasos, an alternative data intelligence firm that transforms location data into actionable insights, has released a real-time foot traffic product, QStreams. The product has been developed specifically for quantitative hedge funds and is in beta testing. QStreams is a superset of Thasos products, providing subscribers with daily customer visitation and other fundamental metrics for every…