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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…
IHS Markit Prepares SI Register to Support MiFID II Reporting
IHS Markit is preparing a registry of systematic internalisers (SIs) to help market participants comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) trade reporting obligations. The SI list will go live at the end of November on Markit’s Counterparty Manager web portal and will detail SIs operating across European Securities and Markets Authority…
Corvil Tops up MiFID II Solutions with UTC Traceability
Corvil has expanded its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) product portfolio with a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) traceability solution that helps market participants monitor and report electronic trading activity. This is key to the EU’s MiFID II and the US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation, which both come into effect in 2018….
TickTrade Recruits Industry Veteran Kennedy to Run Global Sales
Foreign exchange (FX) trading platform provider, TickTrade Systems, has recruited fintech consultant and business development executive Will Kennedy as its global head of sales and marketing. Kennedy has over 25 years’ senior experience, most recently as a partner with the Toronto-based fintech consultancy Collaborative Financial Services. Before that, he held global business development, management and…
LiquidityBook Moves Infrastructure into the AWS Cloud
LiquidityBook has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community having completed the migration of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) buy- and sell-side trading solutions to the cloud provider’s global data centres. As a result, the company has points of presence in AWS regions in the US and Europe, and ability to scale up globally across Europe, the…