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Outside Partnerships Bolster Trade Execution Infrastructures

Partnership is the most important ingredient for optimising the performance of trading infrastructure and reducing its complexity, say operations executives who spoke at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London on 2nd February. Regulatory compliance issues are gaining on cost and value as the biggest consideration, however, according to the executives. Partnership efforts address the need…

Advanced Logic Analytics Delivers OneLogic Big Data Analytics Platform

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a start-up in the big data space, has released OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured big data in real time. Use cases for the platform include predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics for better-informed trading decisions, and data management for regulatory compliance. As the company makes…

Truphone Provides Solace For Industry BlackBerry Users

The business world, and particularly the financial industry with its stricter security needs to protect trading communications, has not been as quick as consumers to give up on BlackBerry, but has also needed a way to retain SMS text message communications. Last week’s launch by mobile network and mobile recording provider Truphone of its SMS…

Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for best execution

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for…

Aperio Chooses Linedata OMS

Investment management firm Aperio Group expects to implement Linedata’s Longview order management system (OMS) by the end of the first quarter of 2017, says Lisa Clossey, a project manager and business analyst at Aperio who worked on the firm’s choice of Linedata as an OMS provider. Aperio plans to replace internal systems and use Linedata…

Thomson Reuters Sets New Foundation For REDI

Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of execution management systems provider REDI Holdings will be integrated into its pre-trade and post-trade workflow services, and its Eikon financial analysis solution, according to Michael Chin, managing director and global head of trading at Thomson Reuters. The acquisition by Thomson Reuters is aimed at capturing more of the buy-side workflow, an…

Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap

Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…

ISITC Taps Machine Learning To Catch Suspect Transactions

Although the financial industry’s awareness of the need to use machine learning to bolster its cybersecurity has existed for several years, focused work on such endeavors is just beginning, as Erica Choinski, the new chair of industry operations group ISITC, sees it. As ISITC prepares the agenda for its 23rd annual vendor show in Boston…

IHS Markit Launches ‘Different’ Solution For Derivatives Tax Compliance

Information, analytics and solutions provider IHS Markit has launched Markit / CTI Tax Solutions for Section 871(m), a service that went live with some users on January 1 as the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule governing withholding on foreign investors for dividend equivalent payments for US equity derivatives took effect. Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH),…