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Recorded Webinar: Best practice data management for trading automation
High quality, consistent and timely data is key to automation of the trading and investment cycle, but while firms are keen to push on with automation, barriers remain. These include sourcing the right data, timely delivery, data quality and ensuring regulatory compliance. The webinar will discuss the foundational role of data in trading automation, and…
Duco Plans to Add Products, People and Markets Following $28m Investment
Duco plans to expand its cloud data engineering solutions and extend its global footprint following a $28 million investment round. The investment reflects interest in the fintech’s Duco Cube software-as-a-service solution and growing uptake of cloud technology across the industry. The company provides technology that enables banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges to normalise, validate…
Exactpro Concludes Buyout from London Stock Exchange Group
Exactpro Systems has been bought out of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) by a company incorporated by the former’s founders. Deals of the acquisition were not disclosed and the LSEG is expected to remain a customer of Exactpro, which will provide an independent software quality assessment of LSEG’s core platforms based on a multi-year…
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…