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A-Team Webinar to Examine Trade Surveillance in Today’s New Normal

A panel of trading surveillance experts will discuss lessons learned and best practices for ensuring compliance in work from home (WFH) environments on A-Team Group’s April 8 webinar: Trade surveillance: Deploying monitoring and surveillance capabilities for today’s new normal. The webinar – sponsored by OneMarketData and ACA Compliance – will discuss the trade surveillance and…

BidFX Launches Data & Analytics Suite for Insight into FX Pricing, Market Impact & Liquidity

BidFX, a provider of cloud-hosted electronic trading solutions for the foreign exchange markets, has launched BidFX Data and Analytics to complement its existing EMS, risk and compliance modules and TCA offerings. The new Data and Analytics suite has been designed to give clients a comprehensive view of the pricing, market impact and liquidity for every…

Quod Financial Launches Middle Office Suite to Automate Trading Workflow

Quod Financial has added a middle office component to its multi-asset OMS/EMS platform, aimed at allowing customers to automate complex trading workflows. Quod Middle Office is a hosted STP platform that seeks to address inefficient manual processes across all asset classes including equities, derivatives, foreign exchange and fixed income, as well as digital assets. The…

TRG Screen Acquires J&J’s Reporting Platform to Complement Axon ADS

TRG Screen has added to its inventory of market data management and administration capabilities with the acquisition of Jordan & Jordan’s Market Data Reporting (MDR) business. The MDR managed services solution complements the Axon Declaration Service (ADS) TRG Screen acquired through its 2019 purchase of Axon, strengthening its reporting offering particularly in the US and…

Rapid Addition Teams with Overbond to Boost Bond Market Automation

Hot on the heels of its recently announced partnership with Valantic, AI-driven data and analytics provider Overbond has forged a strategic alliance with London-based trading technology provider Rapid Addition. The combination is aimed at bringing interoperability and market connectivity to bond trading automation. The idea behind the collaboration is to facilitate greater automation of the…

Technology Trends in Institutional FX

By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. Daily trading volumes in global foreign exchange markets topped $1.79 trillion in November 2020, according to CLS, making FX by far the most heavily traded asset class. Most of this trading volume is executed either indirectly through electronic platforms or bilaterally between counterparties, rather than on traditional ‘exchange-type’ venues….

A-Team Group Names 2021 TradingTech Insight Europe Award Winners

A-Team Group today announced the winners of its TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. This year’s awards included two special editor’s awards. The Editor’s Recognition Award for Best Trading Technology Practitioner…

ACI Webinar to Debate Regulatory Impact on Algo FX Trading

Recent regulatory initiatives have focused on the growing use by foreign exchange market participants of strategies and models long considered mainstream in listed securities markets, particularly equities. To help practitioners get to grips with these developments, the ACI – global association for FX market professionals, will host a webinar on March 4 to discuss the…

Big Xyt Launches in APAC, Names Barnes to Lead BizDev

Big xyt has established a presence in the Asia-Pacific region to plug a gap in its client engagement coverage. The analytics specialist, which last year added an office in the Americas, has named industry veteran Philip Barnes to lead its charge in APAC as regional head of business development. According to CEO Robin Mess, the…

Bond Market Automation: New Initiatives Embrace AI for Pricing

As global fixed Income markets move further towards greater electronification, two recent announcements underscore the market’s growing acceptance of solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Last week saw the announcement of a strategic partnership between New York-based data and analytics specialist 7 Chord and IHS Markit that will enable customers to consume IHS Markit’s fixed…