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big xyt and JSE Establish Joint Venture to Market New Data Analytics Platform
big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s largest stock exchange, have established a joint venture, big xyt ecosystems. The new company will make the Trade Explorer data analytics platform, initially launched in South Africa, available to other trading venues and financial centres worldwide. The…
Amundi Intermédiation Selects FlexTRADER EMS for Cross-Asset Trading Consolidation
Amundi Intermédiation, the execution business subsidiary of Amundi Asset Management, has selected FlexTrade Systems’ FlexTRADER EMS as its global, centralized EMS platform to deliver cross-asset trading capabilities to over 60 dealers across its investment hubs with trading desks in Paris, Dublin, Singapore and Tokyo. FlexTRADER’s advanced automation tools will aim to streamline Amundi Intermédiation’s order…
A-Team Group Releases Institutional Digital Assets Handbook
A-Team Group has this week released the first edition of the Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023, an in-depth guide to the institutional digital assets landscape for trading technologists. Financial institutions have demonstrated a marked and noticeable growth in interest in digital assets in recent years. With the potential for assets of all types to be…
T+1: Why Equities and FX Must Be in Perfect Harmony
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. Significant enhancements to market structure always result in technological innovation to better enable market participants to handle any changes. With the introduction of T+1 for US securities less than one year away, there are multiple elements that need to be considered. For European and Asian based market participants,…
Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now…
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather…
RocketFin Joins OpenFin’s Ecosystem to Enhance Risk Management Solutions
Risk management technology services provider RocketFin has become a certified development partner of OpenFin, adding to OpenFin’s growing ecosystem of partners. This makes RocketFin the only firm with certification in both OpenFin and Beacon’s ecosystems. The partnership will allow RocketFin to provide its customers with a unique integrated solution that combines risk management expertise with…
LTX and BlackRock’s Aladdin Enhance Corporate Bond Trading Workflows Through Platform Integration
LTX, a subsidiary of global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has completed the latest phase of its multi-year partnership with Aladdin, Blackrock’s end-to-end investment management and operations platform for institutional investors. This phase focuses on enhancing corporate bond trading workflows and expanding LTX’s network through a platform integration. LTX’s Liquidity Cloud and actionable pre-trade Cloud…
The Six Key Technology Challenges Facing the Trading Stack
By Dave Carson, Head of Field Engineering at DiffusionData. The challenges I want to discuss are those that are affecting every trading participant today, including exchanges, data providers, banks and hedge funds. These include: Controlling the Firehose of Data With the rise of electronic trading, data volumes have spiralled. As technology continues to advance, so…
Adaptive Expands its Managed Service Offering to 24/7 Operations
Adaptive Financial Consulting has expanded its Managed Service and Support product, ‘Operate’, to provide a 24/7 managed service to run the company’s cloud-native trading platforms Operate includes cloud infrastructure management, application upkeep, technical support, monitoring and reporting. The expansion of Operate is aided by the opening of Adaptive’s Manila office, its first in Asia, complementing…