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Cloud-Delivered Market Data for Institutional Users – A Reality Check
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. Cloud-delivered market data was once ‘over my dead body’ territory for institutional market data managers, who understandably fretted aloud about performance, security and licence compliance issues. But Covid-19 has forced those same data managers to confront the fact that many of their professional market data users are able to work…
Bloomberg and UBS Settle Legal Dispute About Breaches of Data Licensing Agreements
The recent settlement of a long-running legal dispute between Bloomberg and UBS highlights the dangers of omitting to put in place watertight data licensing agreements. The settlement, reached on September 30, 2020, finally put to bed arguments over whether the bank breached redistribution clauses of its licensing agreements with Bloomberg. The dispute centred on two…
TNS Adds Infrastructure Monitoring Capability to Financial Extranet
US network operator Transaction Network Services (TNS) has added a performance and utilisation monitoring capability to its secure financial markets extranet. TNS Oculus allows the company’s financial markets clients to assess the performance of the TNS services they are using, see the status of connected devices and assign entitlements through a point of access. The…
Citi Makes Strategic Investment in Low-Code Specialist Genesis, While Deploying Company’s Application Platform
Citi’s Markets FinTech Investments and Spread Products Investment Technologies (Sprint) groups have teamed up to make a strategic investment in Genesis, whose Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) allows rapid and modular development of trading-related and other applications. At the same time, Citi will deploy Genesis’ LCAP to complement its mainstream application development methodologies in the hopes…
LSE Adds TNS Low-Latency Connection in London as It Plans Data Centre Shift to Docklands
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has installed its ultra-low latency TNSXpress Layer 1 connectivity capability at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) colocation facility in the City of London. The implementation comes as the LSE is understood to be planning for a move to a new London data centre at the Telehouse facility on the Isle of…
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…
Chronicle Adds Tier 1 Bank, North American Exchange to Client Roster
Low-latency trading solutions specialist Chronicle Software says its flexible commercial model was a key factor in two new client implementations announced this past week. The customer deployments – at a major global bank and North American exchange operator – involve deployment of Chronicle’s FIX engine solution, underpinned by the company’s high-performance messaging platform. According to…
GoldenSource’s Quant Workbench Targets Quants and Analysts with Direct Access to Pricing and Metadata
Enterprise data platform provider GoldenSource’s new Quant Workbench offering allows trading firms’ quantitative research teams to add pricing and reference data to their analytical and research models. The new service effectively creates a centralised store for these data types, reducing quants’ need to track down the information from multiple spreadsheets or downloads. According to Charlie…
Talking Trading Tech with Andrew Delaney: Refinitiv Teams with Microsoft for Cloud-Hosted Analytics
Hard on the heels of last week’s news that FactSet is partnering with AWS for cloud-hosted market data provision, Refinitiv has announced a new strategic relationship with Microsoft that features new products and services based on the Microsoft Azure cloud capability. The development is the latest of a series of moves into cloud-based hosting and…
Recorded Webinar: Embedding AI & Machine Learning into your trading operations
It’s no secret that AI and Machine Learning are changing the landscape of the trading industry. As these tools and techniques become more mainstream, their availability to even the smallest of financial firms is becoming a more viable proposition. From speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) to deep learning algorithms and predictive analytics, these…