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SmartTrade Adds to FX Capabilities with Purchase of TickTrade
French trading software company smartTrade has acquired Toronto-based TickTrade, a specialist in foreign exchange trading and payments technology. The transaction is aimed at positioning smartTrade to offer comprehensive solutions for the FX marketplace globally. SmartTrade already offers electronic trading and liquidity management solutions for firms trading in FX, fixed-income and other asset classes. TickTrade’s focus…
FINBOURNE Joins Dutch Regulatory Sandbox to Explore Creation of EU Consolidated Tape
FINBOURNE Technology, founded in 2016 with a mission to reduce the cost of investing and increase transparency, has joined the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets’ (AFM) regulatory sandbox to drive creation of a consolidated tape provider (CTP). A CTP features in the EU’s MiFID II and MiFIR frameworks, but has yet to emerge despite…
Cosaic Partners with Reformis to Deliver Desktop Interoperability to the Buy Side
Smart desktop technology provider Cosaic has forged a strategic partnership with buy-side technology consultants Reformis to help bring desktop interoperability to investment management firms by leveraging Cosaic’s Finsemble platform. Under the new partnership, Reformis will assist buy side firms with the implementation of desktop interoperability, using Finsemble as the underlying infrastructure. Finsemble is designed to…
SGX Partners DataBP to Power Own Brand Market Data Licensing and Usage Portal
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has partnered DataBP, provider of a market data administration platform and services for exchanges, index and data providers, to use the latter’s platform and commercial expertise to roll out SGX Data Direct, an SGX-branded online portal for data licensing and usage reporting powered by DataBP. SGX joins a community of exchanges using…
B2B Data Marketplaces and Beyond
Financial institutions and corporations often generate huge quantities of data as a by product of their core activities. This data – details of historical transactions, customer interactions and metadata for referring to instruments, counterparties or entities – can provide valuable insights for industry participants, and form the basis of a meaningful data sales business. But…
CQG Launches New Suite of Execution Technologies
Chicago-based trading solutions vendor CQG has launched a new suite of execution technologies designed to give market participants new tools to achieve greater efficiencies and optimal trade execution, particularly for large or complex order types. The new suite builds upon software assets CQG acquired from Blue Trading Systems in June 2020, and leverages CQG’s internally-developed…
Do Proximity and Resilience Have to be a Trade-Off in Trading?
By Mark White, Manager – Financial Markets and Fintech, Telehouse. Are proximity and resilience a trade-off in trading? In the quest for speed and proximity, many banks have services hosted within an exchange. Whether this is as trading or matching engines; to support connectivity for global networks through a point of presence or an access…
BSO Partners with EllaLink to Develop Financial Markets Between Europe and Latin America
Infrastructure & connectivity provider BSO has partnered with EllaLink, the express optical platform between Europe and Latin America, to put in place the necessary ultra-low latency connectivity and infrastructure to enable trading firms from around the world to access B3 and other Latin American markets. To date, European and Asian firms wanting to trade the…
Beyond Cryptocurrencies – Building a Market Infrastructure for Digital Assets
Mention digital assets, and most people will immediately think of cryptocurrencies. This is perhaps not surprising, as ownership of digital assets is currently dominated by the two leading cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The fast-evolving world of digital assets now goes way beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies, however, and has the potential to open up a…
Quod Financial Signs Four New Clients, as Demand for Automation and Multi-Asset Solutions Grows
Multi-asset OMS/EMS trading technology provider Quod Financial has secured four new clients – CMC Markets in London, Kepler Chevreux in Paris, SKB Bank (Sinara) in Russia and an undisclosed major bank in Saudi Arabia – to satisfy a range of functional requirements around automated trading, across multiple asset classes. CMC Markets Connect is leveraging Quod’s…