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OTCXN Goes Live with LiquiMatch FX Trading Venue
OTCXN, a blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure provider, has gone live with LiquiMatch FX, an institutional-only foreign exchange dark pool that is embedded in a lit pool and designed to give users multiple trading options simultaneously. With no visible book or ticker, dark pool users are able to trade without broadcasting their activity to visible markets…
Luminex Enhances the User Interface and Workflow of its Buy-Side Trading Venue
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue supporting low-cost block executions, has rolled out Luminex 2.0, which includes an enhanced user interface and workflow. Built on OpenFin technology, the platform works seamlessly with other trading and financial services applications. The flexible user interface in Luminex 2.0 allows traders to customise their workspace with…
Packaging and Deployment: There is Another Way
By: Stephen Wood, Global Head of Enterprise Deployment at OpenFin Let’s say you’re running IT for a bank. You will own software. You could build software and, of course, you’ve got a choice of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) options from third-party vendors. But those vendors have to be vetted. Do they meet your firm’s security requirements? Will…
Neueda Jumps into Product Space with Scrutiny Test Automation Tool
Belfast-based trading technology specialists Neueda has launched Scrutiny, a front-office applications test automation platform that allows trading firms to reduce time to market and cost of ownership. The release marks a significant step by the services-led provider into a more product-led strategy with a pipeline of additional capabilities for future release. Neueda specialises in helping…
Tradeweb and Bloomberg Pitch Camp in Amsterdam Ahead of Brexit
Amsterdam is becoming a location of choice for capital markets participants preparing for Brexit. Despite huge uncertainties around how Britain’s exit from the EU will, or won’t, pan out on March 29, 2019, the latest arrivals in Amsterdam include Tradeweb and Bloomberg. Tradeweb has gained authorisation from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)…
Quest Selects QuantHouse to Support Core Trading Requirements
Quest, an alternative investment firm, has chosen QuantHouse to provide specialised technology services to meet its needs for high quality data and technology, and to tailor solutions for its automated trading clients. With connectivity and hosting services in financial data centres worldwide, QuantHouse allows Quest to connect to brokers, execution venues and other technology providers…
FlexTrade Taps Corvil for Infrastructure, Client Analytics
Buy-side order and execution management system provider FlexTrade has turned to Corvil to industrialise its infrastructure monitoring processes and ultimately help clients optimise their own trading stacks. The move illustrates the ongoing shift to greater transparency around execution quality as firms look beyond transaction cost analysis (TCA) and seek to measure execution performance and offer…
Eurex and Vela Partner to Deliver Improvements to Eurex EnLight
Europe’s largest futures and options exchange, Eurex, has joined forces with trading and market access technology provider Vela to enhance electronic access to its selective request-for-quote (RFQ) platform Eurex EnLight through Vela’s Metro Trading Platform. Eurex EnLight is an off-book trading service for listed derivatives launched in December 2017 to provide market participants with a…
Dash Financial Technologies Acquires eRoom Securities
Capital markets technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Chicago-based eRoom Securities. The eRoom platform, which provides multi-asset trading technology, agency execution, risk management, reporting and clearing services to professional traders, institutions and hedge funds, will be rebranded as Dash Prime. As the Dash Prime project gets underway, eRoom…
KeyBanc Capital Markets Adopts Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise Trading Workflow Solution
KeyBanc Capital Markets (KCBM) has adopted Bloomberg’s DASH Enterprise, which enables sales traders to target a broader audience, access relevant market insights, and gain more value from their order flow. After adopting the DASH solution, KeyBanc Capital Markets has noted an increase in hit ratio and crossing rates. The solution is able to analyze and…