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FlexTrade Releases FlexNow EMS for Hedge Funds and Mini-Primes
FlexTrade has formally released FlexNOW, an out-of-the-box, broker neutral execution management system (EMS) for hedge funds and mini-primes that want a multi-asset trading system at the click of a button. The EMS supports MiFID II compliance and is designed to handle equities, futures and options trading. It also offers connectivity to leading market data providers,…
Fidessa Adds Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program
Fidessa has added Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program, helping users of its access architecture and smart order routing capabilities meet the liquidity challenges presented by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Tower uses a diverse set of trading strategies across a broad range of asset classes to provide liquidity…
Recorded Webinar: Deploying cloud solutions in modern trading infrastructures
Cloud technology and other hosted solutions are finding increasing favour in in modern trading infrastructures, but how best can they be deployed and what can they deliver? The webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities of cloud and hosted trading solutions, and detail best practice approaches to deployment. Listen to the webinar to find out…
MiFID II: Unfinished Business
Generic data issues and specific structural issues caused by the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continue to challenge traders and brokers, despite the regulation’s relatively smooth debut on January 3, 2018 – the so-called ‘Day of the MiFIDs’. The pain points highlighted by an expert panel (see box) discussing the…
Testing Times for Algo Trading
When the EU’s wide-ranging Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulation came into force on January 3, 2018, traders did their best to deliver on its transparency demands and ensure they provided best execution on every trade in Europe, across all asset classes. But in justifying their actions to regulators and clients, firms…
CQG Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Best Execution Algos to its Trading Platform
Quantitative Brokers (QB) has partnered CQG to offer its best execution algorithms for futures trading on the CQG platform. Guy Cirillo, head of partnerships sales at QB, an independent provider of algorithms and data driven analytics to clients in the futures and US cash treasury markets, says: “As one of few independent providers of fixed…
Fidessa Delays Temenos Deal as Late Bidders Join the Party
By Lauren McAughtry Fidessa has postponed its shareholder vote on the £1.4 billion cash offer from Temenos after receiving approaches from two separate, as yet undisclosed third parties, who are each considering making an offer for the firm at a premium to the Temenos bid. Under the Temenos offer of February 20th, which had the…
What’s Next for Financial Services and MiFID II
By: Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS In Hollywood, with every movie that hits the headlines its sequel is right around the corner. When the credits roll, it no longer marks the end of a film, but the next step in a long and lengthy franchise. The same applies in the world of financial services….
FlexTrade Integrates Kensho AI Driven Analytics into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade has integrated Kensho Technologies’ pre-trade analytics solution into its FlexTRADER EMS, providing a real-time event feed to help traders make decisions when executing a trade and enhance best execution. Kensho captures events to surface company-specific developments, such as product launches, mergers and acquisitions or corporate announcements. These events come from news outlets and other…
CME Group Acquisition of NEX Group Combines Cash, Futures and OTC Markets
CME Group has reached agreement to acquire London-based interdealer broker NEX Group in a deal valued at £3.8 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018 and will bring together two trading industry giants with the ambition to deliver better ways to trade and manage risk across futures, cash and…