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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…
agora and Montis Partner to Develop End-to-End Platform for Digital Securities
agora Digital Capital Markets and Montis Group have announced a strategic partnership to develop an end-to-end platform for conventional and digital securities in regulated fixed income markets. The agoraPlatform will interoperate with Montis’s distributed ledger technology-based Central Security Depository (CSD), with authorisation and operational Go-Live targeted for Q4, 2023. The collaboration aims to streamline interactions…
TNS Enhances European Backbone to Support Increased Market Data Volumes
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has upgraded its European backbone, increasing capacity to manage growing market data volumes from numerous exchanges throughout Europe. The network has been reengineered to ensure maximum uptime, resilience, data delivery, and to offer the lowest commercially available latency between significant European financial centres, such as London, Frankfurt, and Bergamo. Both primary…
LTX Introduces BondGPT, an AI-Driven Application Streamlining Corporate Bond Selection
LTX, a subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, has launched BondGPT, an application driven by OpenAI GPT-4. The AI-powered tool will respond to bond-related queries and assist users in identifying corporate bonds on the LTX platform, integrating real-time liquidity information from the LTX Liquidity Cloud. This advancement aims to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency for asset…
Are Capital Markets Firms Really Benefitting From Cloud?
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In our earlier blogs (here and here), we discussed the factors driving increased adoption of cloud technology by capital markets firms seeking to benefit from potential efficiencies. But what do their real-world experiences look like? And are firms realizing the benefits promised by cloud vendors? It may be difficult…
Pico Launches Corvil Cloud Analytics Solution for Crypto Trading on AWS
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics provider for financial markets, has announced the availability of its Corvil Cloud Analytics solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically tailored for crypto markets. This crypto-focused launch follows the beta launch of Corvil Cloud Analytics in December 2022, and the general availability launch on AWS in May…