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Quantitative Brokers Partners with Genesis Global to Launch Customised Algorithm Performance Monitoring Platform
Quantitative Brokers (QB), specialists in advanced execution algorithms for futures, options, and OTC fixed-income markets, has announced a strategic alliance with Genesis Global, a low-code application development platform for financial markets organisations. The collaboration aims to advance algorithm transparency, boost trader productivity, and establish a personalised algorithm performance monitoring platform tailored to QB’s clients’ specific…
Trading in the Public Cloud: Attitudes to Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets
Capital markets have been slow to embrace cloud technologies and in particular the public cloud. Practitioners have been wary of issues around speed/performance, privacy and cost, all of which can dampen the appeal of cloud technologies for trading firms. But broad acceptance of cloud beyond finance is highlighting some compelling benefits, primarily in terms of…
Powering the Future: The Transformation of Renewable Energy Trading through Technology
In a world seeking effective climate action, the spotlight is increasingly focusing on renewable energy. However, within financial markets, the trading of instruments such as biofuels, voluntary carbon credits and power purchase agreements remains complex and opaque. Advances in technology can lead to more automation, standardisation and transparency, but questions remain. How do we ensure…
Murex Expands MX.3 Platform at DZ BANK, Enhancing Collateral Management
Murex, the trading & risk management solutions vendor, has implemented its MX.3 for Collateral Management extension at DZ BANK in Germany. This represents a significant expansion of the MX.3 platform within the EMEA region and has created significant cost synergies in operations and development compared to standalone solutions, according to the company. The move marks…
Adaptive’s Aeron Premium Technology Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the electronic trading technology solutions provider, has announced that its Aeron Premium technology is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This follows last October’s announcement of Adaptive’s partnership with Google Cloud, and the subsequent launch of Aeron Premium, which augments the popular Aeron open source platform with additional features, enterprise-grade…
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence Launch Integrated Solution for Primary Bond Markets
Bloomberg and S&P Global Market Intelligence have unveiled an integrated solution aiming to streamline operations in the syndicated primary bond markets. The solution offers mutual clients of TSOX, Bloomberg’s fixed income execution management system (EMS), and S&P Global Market Intelligence’s InvestorAccess platform, a comprehensive and optimised workflow for primary markets. The system ensures portfolio managers…
Time for Better Tech as Firms Fail to Tackle Trade Fails
By Alistair Griffiths, Director of EMEA Sales, Baton Systems. The drive to innovate is a fundamental human characteristic. However, when I look at certain areas of global financial markets, it feels like we are going backwards, rather than progressing. According to a recent ECB report, settlement fail penalties cost T2S firms over €1.5billion in 2022…
Leveraging Technology to Modernise Trading Platforms
At the A-Team Group’s recent TradingTech Briefing New York, the opening panel session was on the subject of “Modernising trading platforms”, where the discussion, moderated by Andrew Delaney, A-Team Group’s President & Chief Content Officer, centred around how to leverage interoperability, technology and outsourcing to differentiate and create a best-in-class trading platform. Panelists Nikhil Singhvi,…
Obstacles to Cloud Adoption
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. We’ve already talked about what’s driving capital markets’ growing interest in cloud technologies, and discussed what the real world currently looks like, in earlier blogs (here, here and here). But practitioners accept that the journey to cloud isn’t entirely an easy one. Even for committed capital markets protagonists, cloud…
Trading Technologies Unveils New TT FX Unit and Appoints Industry Veteran Tomo Tokuyama as Head
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), provider of technology platforms for global capital markets, has unveiled a new foreign exchange business unit, TT FX. The company made the announcement at the outset of the FIA International Derivatives Expo (IDX) in London, appointing Tomo Tokuyama, a seasoned FX trading expert, as the head of the newly established…