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A-Team Group Names 2021 TradingTech Insight Europe Award Winners
A-Team Group today announced the winners of its TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. This year’s awards included two special editor’s awards. The Editor’s Recognition Award for Best Trading Technology Practitioner…
First New York Deploys Eventus for Cloud-Based Trade Surveillance
First New York has implemented a cloud-based version of Eventus Systems’ Validus trade surveillance system to monitor its futures trading and investment activities, with a view to expanding the deployment to its equities and equity options trading business. According to Shawn Fischman, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at First New York, “As a multi-asset,…
Data Management for Analytics and Market Surveillance
Big Data pervades every aspect of our lives, whether in support of smartphone apps or more sophisticated AI techniques used across many industries. The financial services segment is no exceptions, and the explosion of data in financial markets is posing new opportunities and challenges to deploy analytics for better trading decisions and more effective surveillance….
Trading & Electronic Communications Surveillance in a Changing World
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. The ongoing necessity for many trading professionals to work from home has placed an additional burden on compliance teams struggling to ensure their firms play by the rules while staff operate away from designed-for-purpose trading floors. The situation has been a catalyst for change in how surveillance against financial crime…
SteelEye Teams with txtsmarter for Messaging Data Capture
Financial compliance and analytics specialist SteelEye is adding txtsmarter’s messaging capture and archiving capability to its communications surveillance solution, giving clients access to native messaging data sourced from Android SMS/MMS, WhatsApp and – uniquely – Apple iMessage, in real time. The combined solution adds mobile phone messages to the range of electronic communications that users…
A-Team Group Introduces 2021 Innovation Awards
Here at A-Team Group we have been working hard on plans to celebrate innovative projects and teams with the launch of our A-Team Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to reward teams that have found innovative ways to make use of new and emerging technologies to solve challenges at financial institutions in capital markets. The…
Eflow Pushes Performance of Trade Surveillance Platform with Refinitiv Market Data
Eflow, a London-based regulatory compliance firm, has added Refinitiv market data including tick history to its TZ trade surveillance platform. The data expands the company’s existing market data store and will increase the number of instruments and records available for testing in TZ. It will also strengthen the accuracy of any alerts generated. Refinitiv’s fast…
VoxSmart Launches Markets Segment to Focus on Trading Clients
Following on the heels of its recent partnership with Eventus Systems, and a $7 million Series B investment from NatWest earlier in the year, communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart has created a new Markets division to focus on serving the financial markets segment. The new segment will be dedicated to strengthening VoxSmart’s products and services for…
Trade Surveillance – Monitoring News and Social Media to Detect Insider Trading
By Helen Bevis, Head of Operations and Strategic Partnerships at SteelEye. To mitigate and manage the risk of insider trading, firms need to use the best tools to effectively identify, investigate and report on signs of wrongdoing. A key component of this is access to benchmark data, which for insider trading should include both news and…
Canada’s ITG Implements Cloud-Based Trade Surveillance from OneMarketData
Canadian brokerage Independent Trading Group (ITG) has implemented OneMarketData’s cloud-hosted OneTick Trade Surveillance solution to ensure compliance with regulatory monitoring requirements in the face of the surging volumes and volatility that have accompanied Covid-19 pandemic. According to Nick Savona, chief compliance officer at ITG, the brokerage outgrew its legacy PositionWatch system, which it continues to…