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The Future for Trading in the Cloud
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. If the picture of cloud adoption by trading firms and market services providers is a little grey today, is the outlook brighter tomorrow? A survey of 20 capital markets organisations commissioned by Rapid Addition and conducted by A-Team Group suggests the mixed appetite for public cloud could change if…
Archax Unveils 24×7 Crypto Exchange Tailored for Institutional Investors
In the wake of its $28.5m Series A funding round of November last year, Archax, the regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, has formally launched its 24×7 crypto exchange designed specifically for institutional investors. The move is further evidence of Archax’s role as a pioneer in bridging the gap between the DeFi crypto community…
A-Team Group Releases Institutional Digital Assets Handbook
A-Team Group has this week released the first edition of the Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023, an in-depth guide to the institutional digital assets landscape for trading technologists. Financial institutions have demonstrated a marked and noticeable growth in interest in digital assets in recent years. With the potential for assets of all types to be…
Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now…
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather…
IPC Systems and CryptoStruct Collaborate to Enhance Connexus Crypto Ecosystem with Enterprise-Grade Data
Communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions provider IPC Systems has partnered with CryptoStruct, a low latency cryptocurrency market data and trading solution vendor. The collaboration aims to deliver enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus Crypto ecosystem and further strengthens IPC’s crypto offering following the company’s recently-announced partnership with Kaiko. Connexus Crypto, launched in November 2021, is IPC’s…
McKay Brothers Launches Ultra-Low Latency Cboe UK Equities Data Service at London Stock Exchange
McKay Brothers International SA (MBI) has launched its latest low latency market data service, now offering Cboe UK cash equities raw data at the London Stock Exchange through its wireless QRD service at what the company claims is the lowest known latency. The service brings together data from Cboe UK’s CXE and BXE feeds in…
LTX and BlackRock’s Aladdin Enhance Corporate Bond Trading Workflows Through Platform Integration
LTX, a subsidiary of global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has completed the latest phase of its multi-year partnership with Aladdin, Blackrock’s end-to-end investment management and operations platform for institutional investors. This phase focuses on enhancing corporate bond trading workflows and expanding LTX’s network through a platform integration. LTX’s Liquidity Cloud and actionable pre-trade Cloud…
Intercontinental Exchange and KX Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Analytics for Financial Firms
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, has joined forces with KX, creator of the Data Timehouse and KDB.AI vector database, in order to utilise KX’s platform to offer real-time analytics on data from ICE’s Consolidated Feed and Consolidated History. The collaboration comes in response to the growing challenges…
4OTC and Quod Financial Partner to Enhance Digital Asset Trading
4OTC, the digital assets and FX connectivity provider, has formed a strategic partnership with multi-asset trading solutions vendor Quod Financial. The partnership aims to offer a unique trading solution for digital assets, by combining 4OTC’s robust API and extensive connectivity across exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) venues with Quod Financial’s advanced Order/Execution Management System (O/EMS) platform….