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VoxSmart Expands APAC Operations with Office in New Zealand
Communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart has opened a new office in Queenstown, New Zealand, expanding its presence in the APAC region where it already maintains offices in Singapore and Melbourne. The new office will be headed by VoxSmart COO, Adrienne Muir, a native New Zealander. The expansion marks a period of rapid growth for VoxSmart, following…
B2B Data Marketplaces and Beyond
Financial institutions and corporations often generate huge quantities of data as a by product of their core activities. This data – details of historical transactions, customer interactions and metadata for referring to instruments, counterparties or entities – can provide valuable insights for industry participants, and form the basis of a meaningful data sales business. But…
Tradovate Adopts Eventus Validus Platform for Regulatory Monitoring
Tradovate, a US online brokerage firm catering to self-directed futures traders, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus trade surveillance platform to identify patterns of dangerous activity within its order flow, as well as to meet regulatory requirements, including monitoring and ensuring the proper use of regulatory tags. The firm is using Validus to monitor more than 2.5…
A Stable Future: The Evolution of Trade Finance as a Digital Asset
By Christoph Gugelmann, CEO, Tradeteq. The emergence of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies as a means of achieving investment returns is gathering pace amongst bank and non-bank trading institutions. For example, State Street launched a dedicated cryptocurrency division while Standard Chartered announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading platform. Meanwhile, a survey of 100 hedge…
Parameta Solutions Launches Post-Trade Analytics Platform
Parameta Solutions, interdealer broker TP ICAP’s data and analytics unit, has launched a new global post-trade analytics platform, Trading Analytics. The new offering, designed to help both buy- and sell-side firms to improve execution prices, will initially cover corporate, agency, government, and supranational bonds, with plans to expand across a variety of OTC asset classes…
Do Proximity and Resilience Have to be a Trade-Off in Trading?
By Mark White, Manager – Financial Markets and Fintech, Telehouse. Are proximity and resilience a trade-off in trading? In the quest for speed and proximity, many banks have services hosted within an exchange. Whether this is as trading or matching engines; to support connectivity for global networks through a point of presence or an access…
Deutsche Boerse Partners with Digital Asset for New Digital Post-trade Platform
Digital Asset and Deutsche Boerse have announced a long-term strategic partnership, to build the exchange’s new fully digital post-trade platform, D7. The new cloud-backed and DLT-ready platform will be designed to cover the entire value chain of issuance, custody, settlement, and asset servicing for digital securities. In the first phase of the project roll-out, Deutsche…
VoxSmart Acquires GreenKey Technologies to Bolster NLP Capabilities
London-based communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart Ltd., has acquired speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) provider GreenKey Technologies for an undisclosed sum. The deal will enable VoxSmart to strengthen its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions, as it moves to position itself as a leader in NLP and voice analytics for financial markets. The…
Archax Launches Blockchain-Based Post-Trade Infrastructure Subsidiary Montis Digital, with Watkins as CEO, Lester as Chairman
Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange, has created a new subsidiary, Montis Digital, to launch a blockchain-based post-trade infrastructure for tokenised assets, such as digital securities and security tokens. Montis will be led by CEO Martin Watkins, previously head of the exchanges and financial markets infrastructure practice at EY, and senior executive at AtosEuronext,…
New Meritsoft Report Highlights True Costs of Post-Trade Processing
Banks across Europe and North America are spending large sums in post-trade expense fees as a result of inefficient legacy systems, lack of automation, and the inability to persist data through the workflow, new research claims. According to a report on brokerage, clearing, custody and exchange costs from Meritsoft, a subsidiary of Cognizant that specialises…