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HPR Expands Market Access Platform to Hong Kong Stock Connects
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Hyannis Port Research (HPR), a Boston-based provider of advanced capital markets infrastructure technologies, has expanded its market access platform to include support for the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connects. The HPR platform includes the company’s pre-trade risk products for low latency market access and risk management, Riskbot and…
MahiFX Offers FX Trade Analysis and Visualisation Tool MFX Echo
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter MahiFX, the institutional and retail foreign exchange (FX) technology services firm, has introduced MFX Echo, a white-label trade analysis, liquidity visualisation and price explainer tool that allows eFX traders to evaluate markets and analyse performance during and post execution. Following the success of MFX Compass, a pricing and risk management…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
State Street: The Journey Towards Internal Efficiency
State Street managing director Nathaniel Rand led A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York with a keynote that opened a window onto the firm’s technology investment strategy, including core goals, key stages and crucial trends in the journey towards an evolved and efficient technology infrastructure. Over the past few years, State Street, one…
Intelligent Trading Summit Debates the Prospects of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency is all the rage in capital markets, but how does it differ from other asset classes, how will it be regulated and what are its challenges and opportunities for trading firms and exchanges? A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City answered these questions and more, looking at both the…
Colt Offers US Network Connecting Multinationals to Europe and Asia
Colt Technology Services has introduced US operations offering multinational enterprises self-service and on-demand bandwidth for agile connectivity to their European and Asian operations. The connectivity is based on the Colt IQ Network, which is fully controlled by Colt in Europe and Asia, and connects 13 major cities in North America, including New York, San Francisco…
Recorded Webinar: Innovation in architecture: how to develop optimal, high performance trading
Cloud, predictive analytics, sophisticated algorithms, artificial intelligence and other high performance technologies are gaining traction, innovating trading architecture and delivering market advantage to early adopters. Their potential is phenomenal, but they do come with challenges around integration with existing systems and trading data. They must also be implemented in compliance with trading requirements of regulations…
J.P. Morgan and Citadel Adopt truePTS Post-Trade Derivatives Processing Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter truePTS is addressing the challenges of post-trade derivatives processing with its ‘no touch’ automated solution. Early adopters J.P. Morgan and Citadel are using the cloud-based platform as a lower-cost, digital alternative to legacy confirmation providers. The solution offers real-time synchronised connectivity between all participants in the post-trade environment through an…
A-Team Group Reveals Winners of 2018 Intelligent Trading Technology Awards
The winners of this year’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology (ITT) Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best cloud-based trading environment to best trading analytics platform and best consolidated market data feed. Consultancy categories covered best specialist trading technology consultancy and best specialist market data consultancy. A…
ARQA Technologies Partners with QuantHouse for European Expansion
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Russian order management system (OMS) provider ARQA Technologies is leveraging QuantHouse’s data centre and market data infrastructure to launch its hosted trading solutions in Continental European financial markets. Under the initiative, which will be hosted at QuantHouse’s London data centre, ARQA will use an adaptor for QuantHouse’s QuantFEED global market…