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Glue42 Contends for the Desktop Application Interoperability Market
Glue42 is pushing into the desktop application interoperability market, contending with OpenFin, and to a lesser extent ChartIQ, and naming JPMorgan as its largest customer. The company started to build the Glue42 platform – Glue for interoperability and 42 the answer to life, the universe and everything – in 2012 and is now on its…
Itiviti Sets Product Direction and Commits to Managed Services Following Ullink Merger
Itiviti has set out its solutions and services offer following the merger of Itiviti and Ullink in 2018. The resulting unified portfolio covers the trade lifecycle across all asset classes and is split into two sections: Connect, which covers connectivity including the companies’ FIX products and tools, and the NYFIX order routing network; and Trade,…
Cboe Europe Gets Go-Ahead to Join CME in Amsterdam for Post-Brexit European Trading
Cboe Europe, the most ‘pan’ of the pan-European equities exchanges set up in the wake of MiFID I, has received authorisation from the Dutch Ministry of Finance to operate its trading venues and MiFID II reporting mechanisms in the Netherlands, paving the way for it to go live with separate trading facilities for European clients…
Pico Extends Data Centre Presence in APAC
Pico, an infrastructure, connectivity, data and cloud technology provider, is continuing its global expansion into the world’s major financial markets with additional personnel and offices, and increased data centre presence in Asia Pacific. Founded in 2009, Pico opened its Singapore and Tokyo offices after signing its first top tier Asian bank client in mid-2018. Next,…
Connamara Systems Rebuilds Exchange Platform
Connamara Systems has rebuilt its exchange matching engine to deliver Exchange Platform 3 (EP3), which can be deployed in a private, public or hybrid cloud environment. EP3 supports small-to-midsize exchanges running a variety of asset classes under different regulatory regimes. The company has developed the platform over 11 years, working with exchanges and market participants…
TNS Extends Provision of Managed Hosting Services, Plans Expansion in Europe
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has expanded its managed hosting services to provide clients with low-latency connectivity to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), NASDAQ, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The expansion is based on the acquisition of R2G in January 2019 and includes colocation at the Aurora III based CME data centre, the NASDAQ…
Beeks Financial Cloud Partners BeQuant Exchange
In a partnership facilitated by Equinix, Beeks Financial Cloud will host cryptocurrency exchange BeQuant’s matching engine on Beeks’ network within the Equinix LD4 data centre in London. . Operating in nine Equinix data centres, Beeks provides ultra-low latency hosting and connectivity. CEO of Beeks Financial Cloud, says: “The cryptocurrency market is constantly expanding, and by…
Podcast: Leveraging the Cloud to Support Maximum Compute Performance
Moving to the cloud is on every trading organisation’s agenda and most have started the journey. But what exactly should you put in the cloud, what benefits can you expect to gain in terms of compute performance, and how best can you support legacy and cloud systems in a hybrid environment? Listen to this podcast,…
TTI Summit: Trade Infrastructure Monitoring for Optimal Trading Connectivity
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Summit covered key issues affecting financial markets. These included the options available around trade infrastructure monitoring and the challenges they present, such as network monitoring and timestamping, data capture and governance, increasing crossover between compliance and operations, and maintaining high quality connectivity while moving away from pure infrastructure performance monitoring and…
OpenFin Moves into the Cloud to Offer a Turnkey App Store
OpenFin has moved into the cloud to provide financial services firms with turnkey app stores and workspace management. The move builds on the OpenFin operating system that allows interoperability between desktop apps and is designed to deliver value to users quickly, accelerate time to market and facilitate digital transformation programmes. The company had been considering…