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Gedik Investment Selects Horizon as Algo Trading in MENA Region Grows
Gedik Investment, a leading brokerage house in Turkey, has chosen Horizon Software as its platform for algorithmic execution of equities on the Borsa Istanbul exchange. Gedik has implemented both the TWAP and POV trading strategies offered by Horizon, allowing the Gedik team to time trades efficiently and instantly benefit from significant changes in price. “The…
Pico Creates Chinese Entity in Shanghai to Strengthen Its APAC Presence
Trading technology provider Pico has extended the reach of its global offering with the formation of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) in China, British Commercial Pico (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd. Located within proximity to the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) data centre, and supported by local engineering and data centre management expertise, the new enterprise…
Editor’s Recognition Award for Best Trading Technology Practitioner
Vijay Bhandari, Technology Principal, Strategy and Innovation Network, Deutsche Bank. Following the announcement of A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Awards – USA 2021, we talked to Vijay Bhandari about the award, his work at Deutsche Bank, and how he expects his role to evolve over the next year. A-Team: Vijay, what does this award mean to…
Broadridge Leverages Amazon Managed Blockchain for Private Market Hub Platform
Broadridge Financial Solutions, collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched the latest evolution of its Private Market Hub platform, in what the company claims to be the industry’s first deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market. Broadridge Private Market Hub is a global, multi-jurisdictional and cloud-native platform for private equity workflow that…
TickSmith Partners with BMLL to Help Firms Monetise Their Data, and Integrates with Snowflake’s Data Cloud
Montreal-based TickSmith has announced a collaboration with BMLL, the data and analytics company, that will enable data producers, including exchanges, trading venues and data vendors, to generate new revenue streams by creating and distributing analytics derived from their data. TickSmith’s Enterprise Data Web Store allows data-rich firms to create their own customisable data web store,…
Hurricane Capital Advisors Selects SS&C Platform
Hurricane Capital Advisors, a New York based start-up offering a global alternative investment management platform, has deployed SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution to provide fund administration, customised middle office solutions, FIX connectivity, hosting, and order and execution management systems. The firm expects to carry 10 portfolio managers on the platform by July 2021. “We wanted…
UOB Deploys Chronicle EFX for Electronic FX Pricing and Trading
Asian bank United Overseas Bank (UOB) has deployed Chronicle Software’s EFX solution in Singapore to power its FX pricing and trading engine. By deploying EFX and taking advantage of reduced latency via colocation connectivity, UOB aims to improve price discovery to provide customers in the ASEAN region and across its global network with access to…
Gresham Technologies Agrees to Acquire Electra Information Systems
London-based Gresham Technologies is acquiring New York-based post-trade automation specialist Electra Information Systems, in a cash deal valued at up to $38.6 million. The acquisition, which follows Gresham’s purchase of Inforalgo Information Technology last summer, will boost Gresham’s physical presence in the US, double its customer numbers to over 270, and strengthen its cloud and…
Mitigating Compliance Risk by Matching Application Usage to Data Licensing Obligations
As financial institutions consume more market data from more sources than ever before, the task of administering external data services is growing both in complexity and scale. At the same time, data services are increasingly consumed by applications rather than humans, and these applications often consume more data than humans and produce derived data. As…
MayStreet Increases Asia-Pacific Coverage with 19 New Exchange Feeds
Market data technology and content provider MayStreet has added 19 new market feeds in the Asia-Pacific region to Market Data Lake, the company’s market data repository. The new content includes real-time and historical consolidated, top-of-book and full depth-of-book data from the leading equity, derivatives, commodity and fixed income exchanges in the region, and largely completes…