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Best Execution: Putting your Worst Foot Forward?

By Justin Lyon, Founder and CEO of Simudyne. Increased regulatory pressure has raised the bar for both sell-side brokers and investment managers. In Europe, MiFID II increased responsibility on sell-side firms, with the directive ratcheting up the prevention, detection and containment of algorithms that might behave in an unintended manner and contribute to disorderly trading…

SMBC Nikko Replaces Bloomberg SSEOMS with Itiviti OMS Platform

Following Bloomberg’s decision in June 2019 to withdraw its Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) and Itiviti’s offer to help SSEOMS users migrate to its OMS, SMBC Nikko London Capital Markets has successfully replaced the Bloomberg platform with Itiviti’s multi-asset OMS for high touch trading in London and added Itiviti’s middle office solutions including…

SS&C Adds S3 Transaction Cost Analysis and SEC Rule 606 Regulatory Reporting Services

SS&C Technologies is adding S3’s total cost analysis (TCA) and SEC Rule 606 reporting products to its solutions line up. The addition of S3 services – S3 is a provider of trade surveillance, analytics and regulatory reporting technology – will help SS&C clients ensure best execution of trading transactions through trade surveillance, analytics and full…

Recorded Webinar: Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud

Migration of financial apps and data to the cloud is well underway as financial institutions take the opportunity to cut the cost of running systems on premise, scale as and when required, and spin up test environments quickly and inexpensively. Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud is a different and more difficult proposition….

London Stock Exchange Rejects $37 Billion Acquisition Bid from Hong Kong Exchange

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has rejected the $37 billion conditional acquisition proposal made by Hong King Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to acquire the entire share capital of the London exchange last week saying it has ‘fundamental concerns about the key aspects of the conditional proposal’. These include the strategy, deliverability, form of consideration…

Glue42 Extends into Asia Pacific

Glue42, provider of a simplified desktop experience and interoperability for financial institutions, has made a reseller agreement with Chelmer to extend the connectivity of the desktop and its footprint into Asia Pacific. As part of its latest release, the company’s desktop users’ apps can now interoperate with third-party websites and web apps through browser extensions,…

Goldman Sachs Distributes TT Platform to Clients

Goldman Sachs has contracted with Trading Technologies International (TT) to distribute the TT platform to its client base. This gives Goldman Sachs’ clients access to the TT platform’s range of trading tools, including Autospreader and TT’s advanced options analytics functionality. Clients can also access Goldman Sachs’ suite of internally developed execution algorithms via the TT…

Hong Kong Exchange $37 Billion Bid for London Stock Exchange Scuppers Latter’s Merger Plan with Refinitiv

The Hong Kong Exchange’s $37 bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) came out of the blue this morning, but has since rattled cages and raised questions about the LSE’s proposed $27 billion merger with Refinitiv, whether a deal of this sort would be acceptable to regulators, and how LSE shareholders will react to the…

QuantHouse Adds Goldman Sachs SIGMA X MTF Data to API Ecosystem

Goldman Sachs has teamed up with QuantHouse to accelerate market data distribution from its SIGMA X European multilateral trading facility (MTF). The data is accessible via the QuantHouse API Ecosystem and can be used to identify auctions and find potentially untapped, addressable liquidity. SIGMA X MTF offers deep and diverse liquidity on the basis of…

Creating an Algo Gym

By Justin Lyon, Founder and CEO of Simudyne. Sell-side firms are finding themselves extremely challenged in algo pre-production. According to our recent survey of 15 sell-side executives involved in algo trading, modeling is the most common, significant and recurring issue in algo pre-production – with many concerned that this is holding them back competitively. The…