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Volksbank Wien Completes SaaS ‘Lift-and-Shift’ Project with Murex
Volksbank Wien, the central entity of an association of Austrian banks, and Murex, the trading and risk solutions vendor, have completed the migration of Murex’s MX.3 from bank premises into a private cloud hosting environment. The ‘lift-and-shift’ project also included an upgrade to the latest MX.3 release. In a nine-month project, Murex transferred the full…
Recorded Webinar: Transforming Data Experiences in Quantitative Research and Trading
For quantitative researchers and quant trading teams at banking and capital markets firms, the ability to access, integrate, and share data is critical. Data and how teams collaborate with data underpins the ability to generate alpha, perform execution analyses, and provide a modern and differentiated client experience. However, for most banks, legacy technology stacks and…
How Banks Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility
Financial services are recognizing the benefits that data-led processes can bring and are undergoing digital transformations that are putting data at the heart of their operations and decisions-making processes. They are seizing on data as an asset whose value can be unlocked through technology to increase revenue and reduce costs across the entire enterprise. With…
Horizon Software Announces Connectivity to Singapore Exchange
Horizon Software, the electronic trading and algorithmic technology solutions provider, has announced new direct connectivity to the Singapore Exchange (SGX Group), enabling clients to access and trade on multiple financial markets, make markets on exchange traded funds (ETFs) and hedge in a fast, efficient manner. As an approved vendor by the exchange, Horizon Software had…
Man Group Partners with Bloomberg to Develop New DataFrame Database Product
Man Group, the technology-empowered global investment firm, has signed a multi-year open-source technology development and product integration agreement with Bloomberg, the financial information company, to build upon Man’s DataFrame database product, ArcticDB, and to integrate it into BQuant Bloomberg’s open source analytics platform. ArcticDB is a high-performance Python-native database, built in response to the challenges…
A-Team Webinar to Discuss Data Transformation in Quant Research and Trading
Quantitative workflows rely on sourcing, aggregating, normalising and managing data. This can be highly resource-intensive, leading to a situation where some financial institutions with quant shops are more focused on data management than on data science and modeling. So how can the data ingestion, management, and pipeline processes of quant workflows be streamlined, allowing quants…
TNS Rolls Out Dedicated Server Offering for Capital Markets
TNS, the infrastructure, connectivity, market data and analytic services provider, has launched a standardised Dedicated Server offering, the first step in introducing the company’s new cloud platform for financial markets. The product is designed for high-performance trading and utilises TNS’s bare metal servers, along with ultra-low latency trading connectivity through TNS Layer 1. “What we’re…
A-Team Group’s Lorna Van Zyl Featured on FinTech Focus TV, Discussing TradingTech Summit London
In anticipation of this year’s TradingTech Summit London, we’re delighted that A-Team Group’s Head of Event Content, Lorna Van Zyl, was the star guest on the latest episode of FinTech Focus TV, talking with Toby Babb of Harrington Starr. In a wide-ranging interview, Lorna shares what goes on behind the scenes when putting the event…
Trends in Electronic Trading
By Jeffrey Britell, Senior Vice President – Global Network Services, IPC Systems. In the past 20 years, electronic trading technology has opened up what was a largely interbank domain to a much broader financial community that includes investment managers, buy-side and retail firms and increasingly, non-traditional, technology-led firms. From the early days of order management…
Avelacom Appoints Timothy Wong as VP of Sales in APAC and Opens Hong Kong Office
Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider, has appointed Timothy Wong as VP of Sales for the APAC region. Wong joins from Xenith IG (formerly Superloop Asia) and brings over 15 years of experience working in data and network systems across sales, business development and technology. In addition, the company has…