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IHS Markit Offers Cloud Service for MiFID II RTS 28 Best Execution Compliance
By Laura Burgess IHS Markit has introduced a service designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) comply with RTS 28, an element of the regulation’s best execution requirements that mandates firms to publicly report their top five trading venues by asset class. RTS 28 takes effect…
Cloud Specialist Options Outlines 2017 Network Expansion Plans
Data centre operator and financial cloud hosting specialist Options has created a delightfully topological map of its 2017 expansion plans. The map – reproduced here – was posted on LinkedIn this week by COO Danny Moore, formerly of Wombat Financial Software, which emerged as the mainstay of the former NYSE Technologies much of which was…
With MiFID II Unbundling Looming, Commcise and TR Roll Out Research Capabilities
Amid media reports that sell-side firms are struggling to settle on commercial arrangements for subscriptions to their unbundled research services post-MiFID II, service providers are starting to roll out solutions aimed at helping buy-side firms receive, manage and pay for research under the new arrangements. MiFID II will require buy-side firms to justify how they…
LiquidityBook Taps Twitter Techie Carroll as Chief Architect
As financial services technology continues to play catch-up with the kids using widely available consumer technologies, trading software supplier LiquidityBook has put its money where its mouth is. The company has named Andy Carroll, former Twitter staff software engineer, as its chief architect, charted with leading the development of its SaaS delivery platform. LiquidityBook is…
TS Adds QB’s Legger Algo to TradeSmart OEMS
The newly rebranded TradingScreen – now operating under the TS name – has expanded the range of third-party trading algorithms available through its TradeSmart order and execution management platform with the addition of Quantitative Brokers’ Legger premium multi-leg spread-trading algorithm. Legger is one of Quantitative Brokers’ suite of four premium futures and fixed income algorithms,…
Global Trade Surveillance Requirements Across MiFID II, MAR and Benchmark Regulation
By: Jordan Dilworth, research analyst, JWG Since the financial collapse in 2008, regulators have been concerned about the vulnerability of firms engaged in trading activities and have reacted by emphasising preventive measures. Out of this drive emerged trade surveillance, which aims to prevent market abuse and market manipulation. In June 2016, the Market Abuse Regulation…
Smartkarma Challenges Traditional Investment Research Services
Smartkarma is on a mission to break the mould of traditional investment research services with an independent, cloud-based platform that curates research from independent providers and allows users to consume the research by paying a per user subscription. The platform operates dynamically to make all research available to all users in real time, but does…
TickSmith Gets Funding for Its TickVault Big Data Platform
It was encouraging this week to see VC interest in high-performance data management technology for financial markets, a segment often overlooked by fintech funds. TickSmith has announced a C$2 million investment from Illuminate Financial Management LLP, a venture capital firm with a specific focus on capital markets financial technology, giving it some clout as it…
Calypso/List & Ullink/Enfusion Launches Herald Return of STP
More evidence this week of the growing importance of post-trade capabilities, as trading system provider Calypso Technology teams with electronic trading platform supplier List, and trading and connectivity specialist Ullink hooks up with order and execution management systems (OEMS) vendor Enfusion. Driven in part by regulatory requirements, among them MiFID II’s record-keeping obligations and the…
Vela Adds to Object Trading to Growing Portfolio of Managed Services Components
In another burst of corporate activity, Vela Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Object Trading, a provider of Direct Market Access (DMA), pre-trade risk, and analytical applications. The deal follows hot on the heels of Vela’s recent acquisition of OptionsCity and adds to Vela’s portfolio of high-performance trading and market data offerings. In particular, Object…