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Evolution of the Algo Trading Desk
The algo trading desk continues to develop, driven by technology opportunity and competitive markets, but other factors are also playing into development as the buy-side and sell-side acknowledge the need for more communication and brokers invest in data transparency. The evolution of the algo trading desk and the role of both buy-side and sell-side firms…
Evolution of the Algo Trading Desk
Listen to a session recorded at A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Summit where a panel of experts discuss algo development, buy-side investment and shifting relationships between the buy-side and sell-side. The panel was moderated by Bill Harts, CEO at Harts & Company, and joined by Saurabh Srivastava, senior vice president, electronic trading, at Jefferies; Eric Karpman,…
MarketAxess Develops Portfolio Trading Solution to Automate Workload
MarketAxess, operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed income securities and provider of market data and post-trade services for global fixed income markets, is developing a platform designed to reduce the manual workload of portfolio trades and improve competitive pricing. As a result of feedback from clients performing portfolio trades, an uptick in portfolio…
TRG Screen Acquires Axon, Adds to Solutions Armoury
Data usage and subscription management specialist TRG Screen’s acquisition of Axon Financial Systems, which helps practitioners comply with suppliers’ data policies, continues a series of acquisitions and expansions at TRG that began when VC Polaris Partners acquired a controlling stake in the company in 2014 and drafted in Steve Matthews as CEO. Axon’s main attraction…
BTON Financial Taps Schwieger and Walker as Non-Execs
BTON Financial, a startup that is offering outsourced smart broker routing targeting mid-tier asset managers, has appointed the London Stock Exchange’s Brian Schwieger and Merrill Lynch’s Tony Walker as non-executive directors. Schwieger and Walker have joined as advisors, helping BTON to promote its vision of offering SaaS-based, broker-neutral routing of buy-side orders to sell-side trading…
DataRobot Names Rob Hegarty to Lead Push into Financial Markets
DataRobot, an enterprise AI firm, has named Rob Hegarty as general manager of financial markets and FinTech with the remit to expand the company’s reach in these sectors. DataRobot helps clients build and deploy machine learning models to increase revenue, improve efficiency and client experience, and reduce risk. Before joining DataRobot, Hegarty was the founder…
big xyt adds Consolidated View
Market data analytics provider big xyt has released Consolidated View, an extension to its market analysis metrics solutions including the Liquidity Cockpit platform and 250days website dashboard. Consolidated View allows access to a standardised independent view of trading activity across the equity and ETF trading landscape in Europe. Users are able to observe changes in…
Recorded Webinar: How to exploit the opportunities of alternative data
Alternative data is emerging as a key component of buy-side firms’ efforts to seek out new investment opportunities, for many filling the gap left by the unbundling of sell-side research from execution. By tapping into unique, non-traditional data sets, hedge funds and quantitative fund managers hope to exploit unfound opportunities before they hit the mainstream….
Predata Adds Predictive Analytics for US Equities
Predata, a provider of predictive analytics for geopolitical risk, has released a suite of signals for US equities. The signals quantify online attention to each of the 11 S&P equity sectors, as well as constituent companies and macro themes within sectors. Predata provides signals for asset classes including FX and commodities, but this is its…
BattleFin Partners Refinitiv
BattleFin, provider of an alternative data marketplace, has partnered Refinitiv to bring fundamental and reference data to its Ensemble platform. Alternative datasets within Ensemble’s platform will be mapped to Refinitiv’s identifiers, including PermID, to provide a holistic data workflow, helping investors, analysts and data scientists find alpha and new investment strategies. Refinitiv’s desktop research platform…