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Gedik Investment Selects Horizon as Algo Trading in MENA Region Grows
Gedik Investment, a leading brokerage house in Turkey, has chosen Horizon Software as its platform for algorithmic execution of equities on the Borsa Istanbul exchange. Gedik has implemented both the TWAP and POV trading strategies offered by Horizon, allowing the Gedik team to time trades efficiently and instantly benefit from significant changes in price. “The…
Hurricane Capital Advisors Selects SS&C Platform
Hurricane Capital Advisors, a New York based start-up offering a global alternative investment management platform, has deployed SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution to provide fund administration, customised middle office solutions, FIX connectivity, hosting, and order and execution management systems. The firm expects to carry 10 portfolio managers on the platform by July 2021. “We wanted…
UOB Deploys Chronicle EFX for Electronic FX Pricing and Trading
Asian bank United Overseas Bank (UOB) has deployed Chronicle Software’s EFX solution in Singapore to power its FX pricing and trading engine. By deploying EFX and taking advantage of reduced latency via colocation connectivity, UOB aims to improve price discovery to provide customers in the ASEAN region and across its global network with access to…
Outsourced Trading: Is the Buy Side Asking the Right Questions?
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at Tora. Outsourced trading is a hot topic in the industry today. By all accounts, there is a fast-growing trend amongst asset managers to outsource some or all of their front office trade execution activities to third parties. In fact, a recent study from Standard & Poor’s Greenwich Associates found…
FlexTrade Integrates BMLL Data Feed and Analytics into FlexTrader EMS
OEMS vendor FlexTrade Systems has integrated data and analytics from BMLL Technologies into its FlexTrader EMS, giving clients the ability to access data and enriched pre- and post-trade analytics from within the FlexTrader EMS blotter. The BMLL Data Feed, which is pre-computed from granular, Level 3 order book data, is designed to provide market participants…
Exegy and Vela Merge to Create Market Data and Execution Technology Powerhouse
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated solutions for market data and predictive analytics, and Vela, a market data and execution technology provider, have announced the merger of their business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $7.5 billion of capital commitments under management. Commercial terms of the…
Horizon Software Launches Composite Spreader to Automate Spread Execution
Electronic trading solutions vendor Horizon Software has launched a purpose-built Composite Spreader as part of its broader OMS roadmap, to automate the execution of multi-leg spreads. The product, which is now live and can be integrated with Horizon’s algo framework, provides clients with a user interface to define synthetic multi-leg spreads with a set of…
IHS Markit Teams Up with Wave Labs to Enhance Fixed Income Price Discovery
IHS Markit has partnered with Wave Labs, a start-up specialising in fixed income liquidity sourcing, to accelerate price discovery and deliver insights and operating efficiencies to buy-side fixed income managers. The arrangement involves plug-and-play integration of IHS Markit’s thinkFolio multi-asset investment management platform with Wave Lab’s Electronic Liquid Seeking Application (eLiSA). Sourcing liquidity in fixed…
SoftSolutions! Migrates nexRates Fixed Income Platform to the Cloud
Milan-based fixed income trading technology provider SoftSolutions! has re-architected its nexRates electronic Trading-as-a-Service platform to be fully cloud-available. In the process, the company has completed an AWS (Amazon Web Services) Foundational Technical Review, meeting strict criteria around security, disaster recovery, resilience, and operational excellence. “The main driver behind this is that most of our Tier…
Levelling the Playing Field in US Equities
Q&A with Joe Wald, Managing Director & Co-Head of Electronic Trading at BMO Capital Markets The US equities market microstructure landscape is evolving. The introduction of Reg-NMS and the National Market System in 2005, designed to promote efficient and fair price formation across securities markets, has had many positive effects in terms of greater competition,…