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Navigating the Post-Brexit Trading Landscape
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. It’s now almost four months since the UK exited the EU, and from a trading and market infrastructure perspective, a clearer picture of the post-Brexit landscape is starting to emerge, although there are still many uncertainties that lie ahead. How have market participants, venue operators and their supporting ecosystem…
Lombard Odier Integrates smartTrade’s LiquidityFX to Offer Enhanced FX Trading Services to its Clients
As part of a strategic review aimed at modernising its technology infrastructure and fostering innovation, Swiss bank Lombard Odier & Co. has integrated smartTrade’s LiquidityFX electronic trading platform with its own proprietary wealth management platform, G2, to offer tailored FX trading functionality to its private, institutional and third-party clients. According to David Vincent, smartTrade CEO,…
Recorded Webinar: Trade surveillance: Deploying monitoring and surveillance capabilities for today’s new normal
Let’s face it: The old ways aren’t coming back. A plethora of challenges brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, coupled with unrelenting market volatility and uncertainty, have pushed financial service firms to look for rigorous monitoring and surveillance solutions to meet the demands of the emerging trading landscape. Working from home (WFH) has increased the…
TP ICAP Sets Up Parameta Solutions as New Brand for Data, Analytics and Post-Trade Offerings
TP ICAP has set up a new business, Parameta Solutions, to provide a flagship brand for its data and analytics division. It is due to be opened officially next week. Parameta’s data and analytics offerings will include unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, in-depth insights across price discovery, risk management, benchmarks and indices, and pre…
With First CFTC Limits Deadline Past, FundApps Urges Firms to Plan for Next Wave
Practitioners reported general readiness for last month’s introduction of new CFTC rules around position limits, a decade after the regulator first floated its plans for changing them. Regulated firms are now being urged to prepare for further changes scheduled for next year, which will introduce new exchange rules and federal limits on derivatives contracts not…
Broadridge Strikes at Front Office with $2.5 Billion Acquisition of Itiviti
In an all-cash transaction valued at €2.143 billion (approximately $2.5 billion), US-based Broadridge Financial Services this week agreed to acquire Scandinavian trading and connectivity solutions provider Itiviti from owner Nordic Capital. The deal will significantly expand Broadridge’s Capital Markets franchise by extending into the front office and strengthening its multi-asset capabilities. The fit looks like…
Equiduct Partners EOSE to Explore New Data Products
Equiduct, a retail focused pan-European exchange, has partnered EOSE, a market data specialist, to strengthen distribution of its market data products that offer a real-time view of pre-trade and post-trade data. EOSE will provide Equiduct with a team of data sales and business development professionals, allowing Equiduct to concentrate on developing core business strategies, while…
VoxSmart Raises $25 Million with Toscafund to Finance Expansion and Growth
In a deal claimed to be one of the largest fundraises conducted for the RegTech and Compliance sector, London-based communications surveillance provider VoxSmart has raised $25 million to strengthen its markets surveillance technology suite and to fund further expansion, particularly in North America and emerging markets. Following $13.7 million raised in earlier rounds of Series…
IPSX Creates Integrated Technology Framework Ahead of First Admission
UK-based IPSX, which describes itself as the world’s first regulated stock exchange dedicated to real estate assets, has pulled together an integrated technology environment and a set of standardised data workflows ahead of its first ‘Intention to Float’ (ITF) on its IPSX Wholesale market, scheduled for next month. IPSX has been working with a plethora…
What Can We Expect from European Trading Post-Brexit?
By Sylvain Thieullent, CEO, Horizon Software. The abrupt finalisation of the Brexit agreement meant UK-based firms suddenly had to trade stocks in the EU, and vice versa. Almost overnight, firms had to move all operations to the EU or they simply couldn’t trade. It’s not easy to move operations from one country to another, let alone in…