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IPC and GreenKey Collaborate to Convert Real-Time Voice into Useable Data
IPC and GreenKey Technologies are collaborating to bring an artificial intelligence (AI) based speech recognition solution that converts real-time voice into useable data to market. IPC, a provider of compliant communication and networking solutions, and GreenKey Technologies, a creator of voice software with integrated speech recognition designed for financial markets, have been working together since…
The CAT is Out of the Bag and it Looks Aggressive
In an era of regulation, traders may not love compliance, but they have learned to live with it. That said, the looming US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has stirred up infighting between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the individual broker-dealer firms and exchanges affected. There have been complaints of an ‘incredibly aggressive’ timeframe,…
SteelEye Builds Out Cloud-Based Data Consolidation and Intelligent Analytics Platform
SteelEye is building out its cloud-based data consolidation and analytics platform covering best execution, trade reconstruction, transaction reporting and record keeping, with a trade surveillance option due to go live later this year. It is also building up its client list, based on its ability to support regulatory compliance and help firms gain intelligence from…
Linedata Updates Global Hedge Platform
Linedata has updated its Global Hedge platform to enhance front-office user experience, enable Bitcoin trading, and support outsourcing solutions for the middle office. The enhanced user experience covers order generation, pre-trade compliance and middle-office operations. Further front-office improvements include enhancements for trading, streamlined workflows, what-if analysis, pre-trade compliance and mobile processing. Introducing cryptocurrencies, the platform…
CMO-as-a-Service: Helping Time-Poor FinTechs Get Their Message Heard
By Simon Barnby, Founder, MediaBond In today’s fast paced, cost-conscious world, marketing often gets overlooked–and yet for small and growing firms in particular, it is a vital activity that needs to be done. And needs to be done well. New FinTech firms, for example, are often trying to establish themselves on the global stage and…
FCA Highlights Good and Bad Practice Across Five Areas of Algorithmic Trading
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a report on the supervision of algorithmic trading that focuses on five areas of algo trading compliance and highlights good and bad practice observed from cross-firm reviews. The FCA report coincides with publication of a consultation paper by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on proposed expectations regarding a…
FactSet Partners CG Blockchain to Deliver Blockchain Based OEMS
FactSet has partnered blockchain apps provider CG Blockchain to give users of FactSet’s order and execution management system (OEMS) a real-time, secure means of recording transactions using blockchain technology. The firms have integrated FactSet OEMS, a central platform for executing trading strategies across asset classes, with CG’s BCT Fundstore suite of compliance-based blockchain apps. This…
Ullink Partners LiquidMetrix to Offer MiFID II Best Execution Reporting
Ullink has extended its partnership with financial data specialist LiquidMetrix to provide Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) best execution reporting for its European sell-side clients. The solution, UL Publisher for Best Execution, addresses MiFID II’s requirement for sell-side firms and private banks to produce best execution reports based on data from their…
QQQ Capital Selects Eze Software to Streamline Investment Workflows
QQQ Capital, Singapore’s new long-term value hedge fund manager, has selected the Eze Investment Suite to automate its operations. The company will launch its QQQ Capital Feeder Fund, a $100 million fund focused on technology, education and tourism, in early 2018, using the Eze software to help streamline front-to-back investment workflows. As a fundamental long-short…
Alantra Equities Goes Live with Ullink’s High-Touch and Connectivity Solutions
Alantra Equities (formerly N+1 Equities) has gone live with Ullink’s high-touch order management system (OMS) ODISYS and NYFIX connectivity hub. The Spanish equities broker division of the global mid-market investment banking and asset management specialist Alantra, went live in advance of the January 3, 2018 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) deadline to…