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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…
Liquidnet Offers High-Touch Solution for Best Execution Analysis
Liquidnet has introduced Best Ex Replay, an addition to its Virtual High Touch suite that is powered by data and analytics from OTAS Technologies. The solution allows traders to recall precise market conditions to explain the context of execution decisions, investigate orders that experienced exceptional market conditions, and achieve regulatory reporting compliance. Natasha Shamis, global…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II trading technology requirements – what’s worked and what hasn’t?
The incredible breadth of coverage of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) always meant there were going to be workarounds. Now that the implementation deadline of January 3, 2018 has passed, how did the marketplace fare in its attempts to comply, where was it successful, and which areas still need work? Listen to…
Fidessa BlockShadow Solves MiFID II Block Trading Problem
Fidessa has worked with long-standing client Redburn to deliver BlockShadow, a service driven by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and designed to provide intelligent access across conditional dark venues for best execution of large orders. BlockShadow manages the whole process of placing multiple conditional orders on these venues, while at the same…
Fidessa and Virtu Partnership Provides Virtu SI Liquidity to Fidessa Solutions
Fidessa and Virtu Financial have partnered to give users of Fidessa’s market access solutions access to Virtu’s systematic internaliser (SI) disclosed liquidity, as well as improved upstream workflow to manage the more complex trading environment of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Virtu’s customisable SI price feeds are integrated to Fidessa’s smart routing…
SteelEye Builds Out Cloud-Based Data Consolidation and Intelligent Analytics Platform
SteelEye is building out its cloud-based data consolidation and analytics platform covering best execution, trade reconstruction, transaction reporting and record keeping, with a trade surveillance option due to go live later this year. It is also building up its client list, based on its ability to support regulatory compliance and help firms gain intelligence from…
FCA Highlights Good and Bad Practice Across Five Areas of Algorithmic Trading
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a report on the supervision of algorithmic trading that focuses on five areas of algo trading compliance and highlights good and bad practice observed from cross-firm reviews. The FCA report coincides with publication of a consultation paper by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on proposed expectations regarding a…
FactSet Partners CG Blockchain to Deliver Blockchain Based OEMS
FactSet has partnered blockchain apps provider CG Blockchain to give users of FactSet’s order and execution management system (OEMS) a real-time, secure means of recording transactions using blockchain technology. The firms have integrated FactSet OEMS, a central platform for executing trading strategies across asset classes, with CG’s BCT Fundstore suite of compliance-based blockchain apps. This…
Ullink Partners LiquidMetrix to Offer MiFID II Best Execution Reporting
Ullink has extended its partnership with financial data specialist LiquidMetrix to provide Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) best execution reporting for its European sell-side clients. The solution, UL Publisher for Best Execution, addresses MiFID II’s requirement for sell-side firms and private banks to produce best execution reports based on data from their…