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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…
CISI Selects Bloomberg Buy-side Solutions
China Industrial Securities International Financial Group (CISI), a full-service financial group listed in Hong Kong, has adopted a broad range of Bloomberg’s buy-side solutions including its buy-side order management system, transaction cost analysis, liquidity assessment and Bloomberg Vault. These solutions will enable the group to navigate a fast-evolving global regulatory environment as it positions for…
SEC Releases Long-Awaited Guidance for Rule 606 on Broker Disclosures – But is it Enough?
Rule 606, updated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year to require additional disclosures by broker-dealers to customers regarding the handling of their orders, has caused headaches for the sell-side since it was first proposed – largely due to the complexity of the original 334-page mandate. With the postponed October 1, 2019 deadline…
Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg?
By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With…
Blaze Portfolio Partners Itiviti to Access NYFIX Services
Blaze Portfolio, a provider of scalable investment portfolio rebalancing and real-time trade order management software, has joined Itiviti’s Global Alliance Program, giving clients access to Itiviti’s NYFIX suite of services including a FIX connectivity network, monitoring and execution reporting. Blaze is also using NYFIX Matching, Itiviti’s post-trade solution that streamlines affirmation, allocation and confirmation matching…
Addressing the Data Issues of Best Execution Under MiFID II and Other Global Regulations
By Peter Lawrey, CEO at Chronicle Software. Regulated trading systems need to record the reasons behind every decision they make with minimal impact on performance. Chronicle Software has worked with investment banks and hedge funds to deliver trading services with a record everything model and low microsecond latencies. Today’s more stringent regulatory environment is placing…
Equinix Takes Platform Approach to Solving Client Problems
Equinix is developing a platform-based approach to solving client problems. The platform will host next-generation services and continues the company’s journey, which started in 1998 with the offer of data centres and moved on to provide solutions including interconnection and cloud services, as well as a focus on developing a capital markets ecosystem. The modular…