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Regulatory Compliance: The Use of Twitter in Financial Services
Twitter has emerged as a source of market-moving information. But it’s difficult to get Twitter delivered to your trading desk, for a variety of reasons, ranging from concerns about market abuse, to the proliferation of fake news and the potential risk of reputational damage. By banning Twitter, trading firm management may be seeking to avoid…
Wedbush Futures Migrates Post-Trade Processing to FIS Derivatives Utility
Wedbush Futures plans to migrate the clearing operations processing and technology management of its exchange traded derivatives business to the FIS Derivatives Utility. The plan is to migrate this quarter with a view to gaining greater middle and back-office processing efficiency, as well as simplified regulatory compliance and application upgrades. Wedbush, one of the largest…
Mizuho Securities Integrates Nomura Research AI to Monitor Communication
Mizuho Securities has implemented Nomura Research Institute’s (NRI) voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to optimise the monitoring and analysis of communication between investors and sales reps that is tracked for both compliance and customer care purposes. The voice recognition and AI systems are based on NRI’s TRAINA VOICE Digest and have been customised…
TORA Delivers AI Tool Designed to Help Traders Meet MiFID II Best Execution
Investment solutions supplier TORA has developed a pre-trade analytics solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help trading firms meet the best execution requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). TORA is offering the tool as part of its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), enabling traders to monitor costs across…
Itiviti-ULLINK Combo Sets Sights on Trading Tech Market Leader Fidessa
The planned merger of Nordic front-office trading systems provider Itiviti with rival French supplier ULLINK is aimed at creating a global full-service trading powerhouse with a remit to take on market leader Fidessa. The merger of equals – announced today – expects to meld Itiviti’s trading and market-making capabilities with the equities and listed derivatives…
Sponsored Blog: Ullink’s Richard Bentley Discusses the Shifting Balance Between High-Touch and Low-Touch Trading Technology
As global trading markets continue to evolve, moving from high-touch to low-touch trading solutions and beginning to benefit from hybrid products, we caught up with Ullink chief product officer, Richard Bentley, to talk about his take on market direction, the rise of managed services, and the products firms need to implement to keep pace with…
A-Team Group Reveals Winners of Inaugural RegTech Awards
The winners of A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best innovative solutions for specific regulations, best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade surveillance solution, best voice and mobile messaging solution, and the most innovative…
NeoXam Partners Ullink to Open Electronic Trading to Buy-Side Clients
Data management software provider NeoXam is providing buy-side customers with direct electronic access (DEA) to brokers for order execution through Ullink’s NYFIX Capital Markets Connectivity Utility. The arrangement strengthens an existing partnership with Ullink and allows asset manager and private bank users of NeoXam’s order and execution management systems to automatically access the services offered…
LiquidityBook Offers LBX Outsourced Trader
Trading solutions provider LiquidityBook has released LBX Outsourced Trader, a portfolio, order and execution management system with integrated FIX connectivity that is designed specifically for outsourced trading desks. LBX Outsourced Trader is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution providing global multi-asset trading capabilities including order and ticket staging, auto marking, position uploads and stock locate. Orders can…
NICE Actimize Adds Trade Reconstruction Solution for MiFID II
NICE Actimize has added a trade reconstruction model to its surveillance portfolio. The solution uses machine learning analytics to classify and understand content based on previous examples and patented automated correlation capabilities to link trade executions to trade conversations. It can cut trade reconstruction time from days to minutes and is designed to support rapid…