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JSE Goes Live with Derivatives on Millennium Platform
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has gone live with equity and FX derivatives on Millennium Exchange and Millennium Surveillance. The migration of equity and FX derivatives trading onto Millennium Exchange is expected to enable clients to reduce trading costs and bring customer technology infrastructure onto the same platform as cash equities. LSEG Technology has worked with…
Algomi Extends ALFA with Ability to Execute Orders on Liquidnet and Trumid
Algomi, a provider of data aggregation technology for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, has extended the functionality of Algomi ALFA with the ability to execute orders on Liquidnet and Trumid. This goes beyond aggregating market data and liquidity, to allow traders to navigate markets and execute trades without duplicating steps across platforms. For actionable…
Timefolio Asset Management Selects SS&C’s Solutions to Power Operations
Timefolio Asset Management Singapore, a subsidiary of Korea’s Timefolio Asset Management, has selected a combination of SS&C Technologies services to power its operations. The company was looking for a trusted provider that could support investment operations as they grows. Working with SS&C Eze and SS&C GlobeOp also minimises the number of vendors the company works…
Refinitiv Adds Shanghai-London Connect App to Eikon Platform
Building on its commitment to provide data on China’s financial markets and as trading via the Shanghai-London Stock Connect commences this week, Refinitiv has added a Shanghai-London Connect app to its Eikon platform. The app brings together information market participants need to engage with trading and investment opportunities created by the new trading link, including…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight North America Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) North America Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in New York City on June 11, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading…
Itiviti Hires to Help Bloomberg SSEOMS Users Migrate to its OMS
Following Bloomberg’s decision to withdraw its Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) and Itiviti’s offer to help SSEOMS users migrate to its OMS, former global head of SSEOMS product management at Bloomberg, Linda Middleditch, has joined Itiviti as chief product officer. Middleditch has previously held senior product development positions at top-tier investment banks including…
Barclays’ Equities Asset Class Prepares for BARX One
Barclays is planning the release of BARX One, a next-generation cross-asset trading platform that unifies for the first time its algorithmic trading and execution services offerings in fixed income, foreign exchange, listed derivatives and now equities. The BARX One initiative aims to optimise execution performance by accessing pools of liquidity through Barclays’ various trading technology…
Delivering Algo Performance through Enhanced Market Simulation
The global shift toward unbundling of research services from execution is forcing sell-side institutions to focus on differentiating their service offerings as they vie for buy-side liquidity in an increasingly competitive marketplace. With soft-commissioned research and high-speed connectivity to trading venues no longer potent as differentiators, the sell side is acknowledging that the quality and…
Iress Targets Europe with QuantHouse Purchase
Australian EMS/OMS platform provider Iress is expanding its European footprint with the acquisition of market data and connectivity provider QuantHouse. The move continues the ongoing consolidation in the trading systems space, and comes less than two years after QuantHouse bought itself out of an earlier, unhappy acquisition by S&P Global Markets. Iress, publicly listed on…
MOEX Deploys Avelacom to Expand Connectivity in Asia, Middle East
Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has deployed Avelacom networking infrastructure technology at new points of presence (PoPs) in data centres in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai and Mumbai. MOEX’s PoPs feature FIX connections for trading transactions, access to MOEX’s market data, and sponsored access to MOEX’s equity, fixed-income, foreign exchange and derivatives markets. market. MOEX’s use of…