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Archax Raises $28.5m in Series A Funding
Archax, the UK FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian, has closed a Series A funding round of $28.5 million, with investors including abrdn as lead strategic investor, alongside Bitrock Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors, CE Innovation Capital, Keiretsu Capital, Lingfeng Capital, Mathrix AG, SGH Capital, The Tezos Foundation and others. Archax is the UK’s first digital…
LightPoint Launches LightPoint 360 ‘Hedge Fund in a Box’ Solution
LightPoint Financial Technology, the SaaS-based trading solutions provider, has launched LightPoint 360, a new all-in-one solution that targets new launch hedge funds, combining LightPoint’s existing SaaS-based trading, order management, portfolio management, and accounting product with Microsoft 365. The new ‘hedge fund in a box’ offering also comes with a comprehensive set of outsourced operational and…
CQG Partners with Lime to Offer Trade Execution on US Equities
Trading technology solutions provider CQG has expanded its partnership with technology-driven broker-dealer Lime Trading Corp. CQG’s front-end trading platforms are now integrated and certified into Lime’s back end for trade execution, giving CQG clients the ability to seamlessly access Lime’s low-latency gateways to US exchanges and dark pool venues for equity trading. CQG clients also…
TS Imagine Appoints Frederic Villain to Head Asia Pacific Sales
TS Imagine, the trading and risk management solutions vendor, has appointed Frederic Villain as Head of Sales for Asia Pacific. He will lead TS Imagine’s APAC sales team across its offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and will be responsible for growing the business in the region. Villain brings over 25 years of sales…
ION Launches Post Trade Solution, XTP Spark
ION, the trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions vendor, has launched XTP Spark, a trade processing solution for cleared derivatives. Using the same technology as ION’s flagship XTP solution, XTP Spark is aimed squarely at smaller firms such as regional banks and brokers, commodity trading firms and niche clearers who require similar back-office functionality,…
Numis Deploys Glue42 to Integrate Sales & Trading Desktop Apps
Numis, the independent investment bank, has deployed software and services from desktop integration specialist Glue42, to enable sales and trading teams to integrate and synchronise the applications they use on their desktops, both in the office and whilst working from home. The Glue42 technology will provide Numis staff with seamless access to market intelligence, quotes,?pricing,…
Broadway Upgrades Duration Trader to Cater for Increased Bond Volatility
Front office solutions vendor Broadway has introduced major upgrades to its Duration Trader algorithm. During an ongoing period of volatile European interest rates, the upgrades provide clients with an enhanced ability to efficiently unwind risk, eliminate inefficient manual hedging processes and reduce market leakage. By enabling customers to move to an automated hedging process, Duration…
Adaptive Partners with Google Cloud to Reinforce Cloud Capabilities for Clients
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive), the technology solutions provider that builds and operates bespoke trading systems for its clients, has entered into a partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership will enable Adaptive to further leverage Google Cloud’s processing power and analytical capabilities, and will also bolster resilience for services built on Google Cloud. The partnership follows…
Recorded Webinar: The challenges and potential of data marketplaces
Data is the lifeblood of capital markets. It is also a valuable commodity providing financial institutions with additional insight when gathered in an internal data marketplace, or packaged and sold externally to other institutions. While the theory is sound, the practice of setting up a data marketplace can be challenging. Internally, vast amounts of data…
Capgemini Acquires Capital Markets Post-Trade Consultancy Quorsus
Capgemini has acquired Quorsus, a UK-based firm consultancy firm specialising in post-trade technologies, operations, regulatory solutions, and market infrastructure. The acquisition will allow Capgemini to further support its capital markets clients in addressing not only increasing regulatory requirements, but the need for strategic yet efficient operations across the trading lifecycle.