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QuantHouse Adds DVeX Cash Cryptocurrency Data to API Ecosystem
DVeX, the electronic digital asset exchange operated by DV Chain, is working with QuantHouse to make its real-time and historical data for cash cryptocurrency pairs available through QuantHouse’s API. QuantHouse clients will be able to access market data from DVeX via the QuantFEED API. Streaming data will be disseminated through QuantHouse’s global fibre optic network,…
Avelacom Cuts London to Hong Kong Round Trip Latency to 150 Milliseconds
Avelacom, a Moscow-based provider of low-latency, high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure, has enhanced its high-speed network performance by joining Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEX) ecosystem of network service providers and offering what it claims is the market’s lowest latency route between London and Hong Kong. To facilitate low-latency access to HKEX markets for…
Nomura Selects Pico to Accelerate Growth of Global FX and Rates Businesses
An interesting win for Pico, which has been selected by Nomura to build, host and manage a new platform supporting its latest innovation programmes in foreign exchange (FX) and rates trading businesses. The Nomura FX trading platform is colocated in data centres based in New Jersey (NY4), London (LD4) and Tokyo (TY3). With more efficient…
First New York Implements LiquidityBook’s SaaS Based POEM System
FNY Investment Advisers (First New York), a multi-strategy investment firm, has implemented LiquidityBook’s SaaS-based LBX Buy Side as its portfolio, order and execution management system (POEM). The firm previously used three providers for varying amounts of time, but they were unable to support the volume which First New York trades, the speed with which it…
McKay Brothers Adds Low-Latency Market Data Distribution in Mumbai
McKay Brothers International has expanded its low latency market data services to India. The company’s Quincy Extreme Data (QED) market data service now distributes select London Metals Exchange data at Mumbai’s Banda Kurla Complex (BKC) in less than 51 milliseconds one-way. In addition, McKay offers select Aurora, Illinois sourced metals, energy and FX futures data…
Citi Cites Rapid Addition FIX Engine Deployment in FX e-Trading Growth
Citi has attributed its recent growth in market share in the electronic trading segment for foreign exchange in part to its deployment of Rapid Addition’s FIX engine and Hub platform. Citi implemented the Rapid Addition capabilities within the new pricing technology it uses in support of its spot FX business, allowing clients to connect via…
Indonesian firm PT Bahana Sekuritas Deploys Itiviti High and Low-touch Trading Solution
PT Bahana Sekuritas (Bahana), a player in Indonesian capital markets, has deployed Itiviti’s high and low-touch trading solution to improve order management capabilities and better serve its regional clients. The Itiviti solution, which includes a highly automated OMS platform, as well as a connectivity and risk management layer, enables Bahana’s equities sales traders to manage…
Goldman Sachs Throws Weight Behind Open Source with Contribution of PURE and Alloy to FINOS
Goldman Sachs has thrown its weight behind the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) with a major open source contribution of a logical modelling language, internally named PURE, and a platform and visual modelling tool that generates PURE-based models, known within Goldman as Alloy. The contribution is designed to encourage banks to further adopt open source,…
TT Adds Collocated Access to Thailand Futures Exchange
Trading Technologies (TT) continues to expand its global reach with the introduction of collocated execution and client connectivity services at the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX). This takes the TT trading platform into Thailand for the first time, providing TT’s global user base with direct market access to TFEX’s portfolio of listed derivatives, including futures, options…
Velocimetrics Adds Context Navigation Panel to VMX EndToEnd Monitoring and Analytics
Velocimetrics, a provider of business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, has made enhancements to its VMX EndToEnd product. The company released VMX v9.0 earlier this year, with the new v9.2 building on this offering and making powerful data lineage more accessible and easier to use. Among additions to v9.2 is a Context Navigation…