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FlexTrade Systems Integrates ipushpull with FlexNOW to Provide Real-Time Data Sharing
FlexTrade Systems has integrated ipushpull (iPP), a real-time interoperability platform, with its FlexNOW execution management system. The arrangement will provide FlexNOW users with access to iPP’s live data sharing and workflow automation between desktop applications, messaging platforms, in-house systems and cloud services. iPP’s analytics module will allow FlexNOW’s primarily hedge fund and mini-prime clients to…
BQT Launches Decentralised P2P Trading Platform with Hedge Trading Capabilities
BQT Technologies has introduced a decentralised trading platform for cryptocurrencies that will allow direct negotiations between traders for short-term trading. The initiative hopes to reduce dependency on fiat currencies by creating a self-sustaining internal market where demand for crypto assets is matched against supply via direct negotiation and exchange. BQT’s peer-to-peer Hedge Trading Platform aims…
Trading Technologies Adds Order Management System
Trading Technologies International plans to add a full-service order management system, TT OMS, to its trading platform, providing an end-to-end solution that can integrate order management with high quality execution tools. The OMS will be offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution via TT’s global, high-speed network and is expected to be operational in early 2019….
DTCC Equity Kinetics Provides Insights into US Equity Markets
DTCC has introduced Equity Kinetics, a data services product providing institutional investors with a comprehensive market view of activity across all US equity trading venues. The data is ideal for quantitative market participants seeking insights to enhance their understanding of the US equities markets. DTCC Equity Kinetics facilitates analysis of US equity market activity by…
Datawatch Adds Panopticon Streams Real-Time Stream Processing Engine
Datawatch has increased the speed of real-time streaming and time series data analytics with stream processing engine Panopticon Streams. The engine can be used as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with Panopticon’s Visual Analytics platform. Peter Simpson, vice president of visualisation strategy at Datawatch Panopticon, says: “Capital markets customers will benefit from Panopticon Streams’…
Nissan Securities Distributes Trading Technologies’ TT Platform
Tokyo-based derivatives broker Nissan Securities has contracted to distribute Trading Technologies’ TT platform, furthering its trade execution technology offer with access to TT features and technology including Autospreader, ADL, TT Premium Services, and charting and analytics. Tomoaki Hirao, director and head of global sales at Nissan Securities, says: “By providing Trading Technologies’ TT platform, we’re…
QuantHouse Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Algos to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms to its qh API Ecosystem. QB provides specialised algorithmic strategies designed to optimise execution and minimise market impact for outright, listed spread and inter-commodity trades across global futures and US cash treasury markets. Alastair Hawker, global head of sales at Quantitative Brokers, comments: “QB’s…
Recorded Webinar: Best practices for best execution in multi-venue environments
Best execution has long sat at the foundation of trading operations across all market and practitioner types. But the introduction of more onerous best execution requirements under MiFID II has raised the bar, both in terms of dealing with fragmented markets from an operational standpoint and providing evidence of delivery on best execution policies. The…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
Podcast: Best Execution & Connectivity in a Multi-Venue Environment
How are venues and connectivity choices impacting best execution? How could linking to emerging SIs impact best execution policy? How are trading technologies such as algos being redesigned to trade in periodic auctions and other new trading mechanisms? What is the best method to evaluate performance and assess options for trading venue analysis and order…