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Video: Adaptive CEO’s View on what’s to Come in Trading Technology
Matt Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting discusses what’s to come in trading technology, how the pandemic has “created a once in a generation rapid acceleration of change in the way people interact in capital markets”, and why he’s looking forward to speaking at TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. If you’d like…
Brexit One Year On: How has the Trading Infrastructure Landscape Changed?
A year on from the UK’s exit from the EU, financial markets across UK and Europe have remained relatively healthy, and trading has continued across all asset classes without any major disruptions. Back in April last year, we reported on how firms were navigating the post-Brexit trading landscape, focusing on the preparations that trading venues…
Eventus Wins First Canadian Deal with Bitbuy Implementation
Bitbuy Technologies – the first Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform to be regulated as a marketplace – has implemented Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to meet all of its trade surveillance needs. With more than 375,000 users and $4.4 billion transacted through its platform, Bitbuy is also the first organization that is both a registered digital asset…
Peel Hunt Renews with ION Fidessa as Long-Term Partner to Grow its Equity Market Business
ION Markets, the global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has announced that broker and market maker Peel Hunt has selected ION as a long-term partner to grow its equity market making business in European markets, using ION’s Fidessa Trading Platform. Peel Hunt provides execution services across global markets, and…
ION Links Up with Trumid for Credit Markets eTrading
Trading solutions vendor ION Markets has upgraded its connectivity to Trumid, an electronic bond trading platform, to support Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client negotiation protocol, through the ION Credit solution. The upgrade, which builds on previous versions of Trumid supporting axe contribution and post-trade functionalities, now provides access to diverse market data sources, automation…
Pico Acquires Redline to Boost Market Data, Connectivity Offerings
Trading technology, data and analytics provider Pico has agreed to acquire trading and market data software specialist Redline Trading Solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring together Pico’s global ultra-low latency infrastructure and network, underpinned by Corvil Analytics, with Redline’s high-performance software solutions for market data, execution and order routing. The combined offering…
A-Team Webinar: Opportunities of New Approaches to Electronic Trading
In today’s capital markets environment, front-office traders face a number of challenges, not least of which are high costs, shrinking margins, increased regulatory oversight, and a multiplicity of siloed, often-legacy applications on the trading desk that can hamper workflows. Within this environment, firms need to be able to rapidly adapt: to the evolving needs of…
Why APIs Are Imperative for Systematic Trading
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director, TORA. Systematic trading has long been a feature of the financial markets. Even in the days before computers arrived on the scene, early systematic traders would use rule-based systems designed to remove human emotion from the trading process, generating trading signals and entry/exit points from a range of technical analysis…
Recorded Webinar: Opportunities of new approaches to electronic trading
Challenged by legacy systems, less than ideal workflows and high costs, front-office trading teams lack the ability to adapt to clients’ evolving needs around integration, speed and multi-asset capabilities. They are also challenged by a capital markets environment characterised by legacy systems, shrinking margins and increased regulatory scrutiny. While these problems cause considerable friction in…
FactSet Adds Fixed Income Trading Capabilities to Portware
FactSet, the global provider of financial information and analytical applications, has launched a suite of fixed income trading capabilities for Portware, its execution management system (EMS) best known for electronic trading and automation in listed assets and FX. With the introduction of fixed income trading, Portware now enables clients to trade more efficiently across more…