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Transaction Network Services Firms Up Secure Cloud Connect with Azure
Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions, is enhancing its Secure Cloud Connect solution with connectivity to Microsoft Azure. Firms using Azure can easily establish connectivity between all the markets, global exchanges, and other organisations that make up TNS’s 2,100 endpoints. Jeff Mezger, director of product management at TNS,…
Refinitiv Taps Influx DB for Cloud-Based Trading Analytics
Refinitiv has selected Influx DB to help build additional cloud-based analytics services. The initiative is part of a wider move to shift delivery of Refinitiv services, including real-time and other data, to a service-oriented cloud-based platform requiring minimal client-side equipment or maintenance. The InfluxDB analytics will add to the company’s Velocity Analytics and QA Direct…
TradingTech Insight – Everything you Need to Know to Build the Best Trading Environment
Welcome to TradingTech Insight (TTI), a dedicated section of A-Team Group’s exciting new A-Team Insight website with a mission to keep you up date with all that’s new in trading technology, give you exclusive insights into hot topics, and provide you with information that will add value to your work. TradingTech Insight leverages A-Team’s trading…
Velocimetrics Cuts Tick-to-Trade Latency from 100 to 10 Microseconds at Tier 1 Bank
Velocimetrics has completed a project with a Tier 1 investment bank that was losing money on trading due to intermittent latency problems by delivering a tick-to-trade reduction in latency from 100 microseconds to 10 microseconds. This has stemmed the losses and renewed the bank’s competitive position. The bank’s trading platform comprises a number of disparate…
Traiana Offers Direct Connectivity to Hong Kong Clearing House OTC Clear
Traiana, a provider of trade life-cycle and risk management solutions, is offering direct central clearing connectivity to the Hong Kong Exchanges (HKEXs) and Clearing’s OTC Clearing Hong Kong, OTC Clear. Market participants can access HKEXs OTC Clear service to clear USD/CNH and USD/HKD FX forward and swaps via Traiana’s CCP Connect clearing hub, which provides…
TNS Extends Managed Hosting and Low-Latency Services Following R2G Acquisition
Transaction Network Services (TNS) will accelerate its deployment of managed hosting services following the acquisition of Chicago-based market data, connectivity and hosting specialist R2G Services. The acquisition also allows TNS to respond to customer interest in working with a full-service managed infrastructure provider and gives R2G the opportunity to offer its customers TNS networking and…
Equities Trading Solutions: to Buy or Build?
Why you need a mix of third-party and in-house technology, and how to get it right By: Steve Grob, CMO, ION Capital Markets, Fidessa Since the global financial crisis, top-tier equities trading businesses have been contending with a mounting series of challenges. Volumes have flattened. Commissions have fallen. Regulation has tightened. Meanwhile, the rise of…
Neueda Jumps into Product Space with Scrutiny Test Automation Tool
Belfast-based trading technology specialists Neueda has launched Scrutiny, a front-office applications test automation platform that allows trading firms to reduce time to market and cost of ownership. The release marks a significant step by the services-led provider into a more product-led strategy with a pipeline of additional capabilities for future release. Neueda specialises in helping…
TNS Adds Peer-to- Peer Virtual Private Network Solution
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is offering a peer-to-peer (P2P) virtual private network (VPN) solution that is designed to provide low-cost, secure connectivity to the TNS Secure Trading Extranet. As a simplified P2P VPN solution, it should also help firms reduce the total cost of ownership of VPN estates, while allowing TNS clients to reach the…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Inside Bloomberg’s London Campus – The End of the Data Centre?
Bloomberg’s new London HQ, which opened last year on the site of the old Bucklersbury House between Cannon Street and Bank station, has been lauded by pundits for its innovative and appealing architectural and ergonomic design. Gone are the tanks of piranhas (at least we didn’t see any when we were there) in favour of…