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LSE in Talks with Refinitiv on $27 Billion Merger Deal
News broke over the weekend that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is in talks with Refinitiv to take over the former risk and finance unit of Thomson Reuters, in a transaction valued at $27 billion. Should it come to pass – and given the specificity of press reports, it seems it most likely will –…
AlphaDesk Acquisition a Part of an Overall Buy-Side Strategy at Refinitiv, Says Chin
Refinitiv is executing on its strategy to significantly grow its presence in the buy-side arena through its recent acquisition and integration of AlphaDesk, according to Michael Chin, managing director and co-head of trading at Refinitiv. Changing the revenue base Refinitiv, which currently has revenues and a client base that is approximately 60% sell-side and 40%…
BGC Partners Launches New Electronic Trading Platform
BGC Partners has launched Fenics Global Options (Fenics GO) a new electronic trading and market data generation platform involving the arrangement and execution of exchange listed futures and options. Fenics GO, in collaboration with liquidity providers Optiver, IMC and Maven Securities, provides Eurex listed Euro Stoxx 50 Index Options and related Delta 1 strategies allowing…
Bringing Alternative Data into the Mainstream
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Asset Control. Alternative and unstructured data is rapidly going mainstream. In a recent survey conducted by Adox Research for Asset Control, more than a third of respondents from financial institutions (36%) labelled these new types of data as ‘high importance’ drivers for investment. Alternative data…
Research Unbundling for US Asset Managers: ‘One Size Fits Nobody’
TradingTech Insight sits down with Joel Burnette, Solutions Consultant at Red Deer, to discuss the response to the research unbundling requirements of MiFID II and explore how US markets are handling the new normal. TTI: What has been the most interesting thing about the North American research market’s response to MiFID II? Joel: We have…
Anova Partners NovaSparks to Deliver Sub Microsecond Market Data Processing Latency
Anova Financial Networks, an international carrier and market data provider, has partnered NovaSparks, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, to provide customers with an optimised and best-of-breed market data service connecting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to the New Jersey Equity Triangle. The service, MicroFeed, deploys NovaSparks’ NovaTick ticker plant that conflates…
Bloomberg Embeds Dow Jones News in Terminal Service
In a move once considered unthinkable, Bloomberg has begun distributing Dow Jones News and other Dow Jones publications for free as part of its Bloomberg Terminal offering. The Dow Jones news content will run alongside Bloomberg’s own news service, which comes bundled with the Bloomberg Terminal. Under the arrangement, which started this week, Bloomberg Terminal…
Woodseer Global and ULTUMUS Team Up to Deliver ETF Dividend Forecast Product
Woodseer Global, a London-based dividend forecast data specialist and ULTUMUS, a provider of data services for index and ETF data, have released a joint ETF Dividend Forecast product. Across investment banks, asset managers and fund service sectors there has traditionally been a limited choice of sources for ETF dividend forecast data, with either limited coverage…
Redline Trading Extends RedlineFeed Market Data to Cloud Solutions
Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, has announced availability of RedlineFeed for access to real-time and delayed exchange market data for customer solutions deployed in the cloud. The initial release includes support for US equities top-of-book streams at Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres. RedlineFeed’s…
Overview of Market Data Fees: What You Need to Know When Planning Your Market Data Infrastructure
By Robert Anderson, Director of Sales at Exegy. Market data is the third biggest expense for many of our customers—right behind the cost of rent and maintaining their staff. So, they’ve designated teams to understanding and optimizing their market data liabilities. However, smaller or newer firms struggle to understand how market data fees add up…