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Imandra Gains Seed Funding for AI Platform Designed to Make Algos Safe
Imandra, creator of a cloud-native automated reasoning engine designed to make algorithms safe, has completed a $5 million round of seed funding led by UK and US investors AlbionVC, IQ Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners. The capital will be used to support application of the company’s Reasoning as a Service platform in financial services and…
CME Group Releases ENSO Data Insights
CME Group has released ENSO Data Insights, a benchmarking tool using ENSO’s alternative dataset. ENSO is part of the CME Group. Data Insights gives hedge funds, asset managers and banks access to a diverse pool of global multi-asset class securities to help them compare best execution financing rates, trend analysis for long and short position…
Glue42 Adds Apps to Desktop Interoperability Ecosystem
Glue42 has expanded its desktop interoperability ecosystem with the addition of independent software vendors Adaptable Tools and BCC Group, and service provider Norman & Sons. The providers are offering their services via the Glue42 platform that uses the FINOS FDC3 open standard to provide a seamless user interface and data integration between desktop apps. Adaptable…
Broadway Acquisition of Barracuda FX Expands Product Suite
Broadway Technology plans to deliver multi-asset solutions across more parts of the investment lifecycle and help clients automate additional workflows following its acquisition of Barracuda FX. The company, a provider of high-performance fixed income and foreign exchange solutions, has taken on the full Barracuda FX team and will operate the company independently under the auspices…
FlexTrade Partners OpenFin for Desktop Interoperability
FlexTrade is the latest application vendor to partner OpenFin. The partnership will provide buy-side traders with interoperability and improved workflows between the FlexTrader execution management system, FlexNow cloud-based trading system and other OpenFin third-party applications. The company has also joined the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium, FDC3, that was founded by OpenFin in 2017…
SEC Rule 606 Features Highly at FIX Americas Conference
The imminent adoption of amendments to SEC Rule 606 was high on the list of hot topics when electronic trading professionals met at the FIX Americas conference in New York this week. And while speakers, panellists and delegates acknowledged the initiative represents a significant challenge in terms of technology resource, most said they believed the…
TORA Implements Cloud OEMS at Buy-Side Firms Based in Zurich and New York
TORA has reported two implementations of its order and execution management system (OEMS) in as many weeks, taking both Zurich-based Systematic Investment Management AG (SIMAG) and New York-based Schonfeld Strategic Advisors’ Asian offices into the cloud with its unified OEMS. These implementations follow consolidation in the OEMS industry over recent years and demonstrate buy-side intent…
Corvil Plans Next-Generation Predictive Trade Execution Analytics
Corvil will introduce its next generation of predictive trade execution analytics later this year, in a bid to exploit what it sees as a growing need for more advanced analysis of execution amid an increased as a growing tendency among buy-side firms to use sophisticated tools to analyse broker execution performance. The Dublin-based trading data…
Archax Opts for ClearBank’s Banking-as-a-Service
Archax, a forthcoming institutional digital securities exchange based in London, has selected ClearBank’s banking-as-a-service solution to access a range of API-based services including real-time payments services across BACS and CHAPS and 24x7x365 Faster Payments. As a security measure for Archax clients, ClearBank will ensure the protection of funds, holding them at the Bank of England.
Redline Expands Support for Canadian Equities
Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of order execution systems, is upgrading and building on its support for Canadian equities. Upgrade features include low-latency feed handlers for the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), Canadian Securities Exchange, Omega Nasdaq CXC, Nasdaq CX2, and Aequitas. John Hanna, global head of sales and field engineering at Redline, says the company…