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Overbond Secures New Round of Funding from Fitch Ventures and Aims for International Expansion
Overbond, the API-based credit trading automation and execution service for the global capital markets, has secured funding from Fitch Ventures, the equity investment arm of Fitch Group, the financial information services provider. The capital will help Overbond grow its sales and marketing division as it plans to open an office in London and double its...
Top Blogs
The Electronification of Credit Markets: What’s Fuelling the Uptake
By Tommaso Di Grazia, Head of Fixed Income Product Development at ION Markets. In recent years, the credit market has become increasingly complex and fragmented, making it harder for firms to find liquidity and offer customers fast and accurate services. However, simultaneously, the market has seen a growth in electronic trading; according to industry analysts...
Bloomberg Makes Strategic Investment in Insightful Technology and Integrates with Soteria
Bloomberg has made a strategic investment in London-based Insightful Technology, the owners and operators of the Soteria Integrated Compliance Solution, and entered into a commercial collaboration with the company. As part of the collaboration, Soteria will be integrated with Bloomberg Compliance Solutions, which includes Bloomberg Vault among other real-time Bloomberg surveillance systems and preventative controls,...
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at TORA Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an FX component operating alongside other asset classes. The FX market is highly fragmented and comprises multiple...
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Trading Technologies Launches Connectivity to NSE IFSC-SGX Connect for International Nifty Equity Derivatives Trading
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), the global provider of trading software, infrastructure and data solutions has begun offering clients access to the popular Nifty equity derivatives through NSE IFSC-SGX Connect, a new joint initiative between Singapore Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India launched on July 29. As one of the first technology providers to…
QuantCube Launches Liquefied Natural Gas Commodity Trade Indicator
Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology has launched a new QuantCube Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Commodity Trade Indicator, which aims to provide supply side commodity and energy futures traders with crucial insights at least one month in advance of official data, by tracking the import and export in volume of Liquefied Natural Gas. Harnessing automatic identification…
Genesis Receives $20m in New Investments from Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, has followed its $200 million Series C funding announced in February with $20 million in new investments from Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi. In 2021, Genesis tripled its revenue and the size of its team. Financial services firms use Genesis across…
Horizon Partners with Paris-Saclay University to Fund Financial Research
Horizon Software, the market making, agency trading and algo trading technology provider, funding a research project in partnership with the university of Paris-Saclay-Ecole Doctorale de Mathématiques Hadamard. The study will focus on optimal execution, measurement, and control of liquidity risk, aiming to find a way to beat algo execution benchmarks. The three-year research project will…
Northern Trust Launches Enhanced Liquidity Management Data Tool
Northern Trust has launched an enhanced liquidity management data tool in its Front Office Solutions platform as part of its initiative to deliver customisable solutions to Asset Owners. The web-based tool aims to give asset owners better control over their liquidity through unified and customised reporting. The new web-based Liquidity Management module offers users a…
ING Spins Out Pyctor Digital Assets Post-Trade Technology to GMEX Group
European banking group ING has spun out Pyctor, its institutional-grade custody solution for the digital asset ecosystem, to GMEX Group (‘GMEX’), the digital business and technology solutions provider for exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. The Pyctor solution, incubated in ING Neo’s Amsterdam innovation lab, provides secure digital custody and transactional network services for a range…
TNS Launches Low-Latency Trading Services in JSE Colocation Facility
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has announced that it is now directly connected to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from within the JSE colocation facility, providing managed hosting services, Layer 1 order routing and market data connectivity. The company will serve as a vendor of record for South Africa’s principal stock exchange, offering JSE market data…
BT Radianz Cloud & Kaiko Partner for Crypto Market Data and Analytics
Kaiko, the cryptocurrency market data vendor, has partnered with BT Radianz to redistribute Kaiko’s digital assets market data and analytics via BT Radianz Cloud. Kaiko generates cryptocurrency market data from hundreds of sources globally, producing a market data feed that can be used by participants across the full cryptocurrency cycle. Radianz solutions provide cryptocurrency market…
Zennor Asset Management Implements TORA as Global All-In-One Multi Asset System
TORA, the all-in-one EMS, OMS and PMS provider, has announced that that Zennor Asset Management has selected and implemented its all-in-one product to support trade execution, position keeping, P&L monitoring, commission management, share class accounting and advanced tools to help manage the daily operational tasks of the firm’s fund management activities. TORA’s all-in-one product is…
Horizon Enhances Trading Platform to Support Actively Managed Certificates
Trading technology vendor Horizon Software has announced that its trading platform now supports AMCs (Actively Managed Certificates), providing clients with the ability to manage the whole AMC trading lifecycle, including product definition, pricing, quoting, hedging and rebalancing, and business logic customisation. Clients can also leverage Horizon’s Algo Framework to further extend AMC capabilities, whether this…
Northern Trust Forms New Digital Assets and Financial Markets Group
Northern Trust has announced the formation of its Digital Assets and Financial Markets Group, combining the teams responsible for supporting the fast-growing digital asset markets and those dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets. The new group, formed in response to the growth of digital markets alongside the continued…
Singletrack Secures Investment from Accel-KKR to Accelerate Global Expansion
Following its recently announced partnership with Glue42, Singletrack, the capital markets client engagement and analytics company, has announced a ‘significant’ capital growth investment from Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm. Founded in 2009, Singletrack’s engagement, research management and analytics platform for capital markets is designed to help clients on both the sell and buy…
Nasdaq and Climate Impact X Partner to Power New Global Carbon Exchange
Nasdaq and Climate Impact X (CIX), a global marketplace and exchange for quality carbon credits, have entered into a strategic technology partnership that aims to help unlock price transparency and liquidity in the voluntary carbon market. The agreement will see CIX leverage Nasdaq’s matching technology to power its spot trading platform, which will launch in…
Northern Trust Enhances Investment Analysis Module to Support Complex Investments
Northern Trust has enhanced the Investment Analysis module of its Front Office Solutions platform to optimise decision-making for institutional investors who manage sophisticated portfolios, including alternative investments. The Investment Analysis tool allows allocators to conduct data analysis across current, prospective and historical investments, giving them the ability to monitor and assess complex investments through interactive…
NYU’s Quant Research Unit Partners with BMLL for Market Microstructure Research
Data and analytics provider BMLL is to collaborate with New York University’s Mathematics in Finance program, making its Data Lab available to NYU’s team of quantitative researchers. Under the program, BMLL Data Lab will run computations and conduct market microstructure research on the futures market. Users will be able to access over three years of…
Latest people
TS Imagine Appoints Thomas Bodenski as Chief Operating Officer
TS Imagine, provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has appointed Thomas Bodenski as COO as the firm expands its executive team to support its rapid growth. Bodenski was previously Chief Transformation and Data Officer at the company, and earlier in his career held senior roles at FOXEYE, State Street, Capco,…
TS Imagine Appoints Three New Board Members
TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions company, has announced the appointment of three new non-executive board members to support the firm’s rapid growth. They are Thomas Chippas, previously CEO of ErisX who now serves on the board of Eris Clearing, LLC; Sabrina Wilson, Chief Operating Officer of the institutional digital asset infrastructure…
Push Technology Promotes Grethe Brown to CEO
Grethe Brown, who joined real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology as COO earlier this year, has been named by the company as its new CEO. Brown has extensive experience in driving growth across operations, R&D, and commercial management for software companies in a variety of industries including Telco, FinTech and Food &…
Northern Trust Appoints Senior Execs to Head Front Office Solutions and Global Foreign Exchange Businesses
Northern Trust has appointed John Turney as Global Head of Front Office Solutions and Marisa Kurk as Head of Global Foreign Exchange (GFX). Turney, who has led GFX since 2018, takes the helm of the Front Office Solutions business as it expands to new markets across the globe, and will report to Melanie Pickett, Head…
smartTrade Appoints Michael Henssler as President and Chief Operating Officer
Multi-asset electronic trading platforms provider smartTrade has appointed Michael Henssler as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Based in London, Henssler will be responsible for the running of all smartTrade’s field operations including sales, pre-sales and client engagement. Henssler brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software and capital markets, most recently as…
Eventus Names Scott Leader as Managing Director, APAC
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has hired Scott B. Leader as Managing Director, APAC, to head the company’s sales efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Sydney and reporting to Eventus’ Global Head of Sales Scott Schroeder, Leader has nearly three decades of financial services, sales and management experience throughout APAC and…
TP ICAP Hires Mark Govoni as CEO of Agency Execution Division
TP ICAP, the market infrastructure and information provider, has appointed Mark Govoni as CEO of its Agency Execution division. Based in New York, Govoni replaces John Ruskin who, having successfully led the integration of Liquidnet into the TP ICAP Group, will step away from the business at the end of June. Govoni joins TP ICAP…
ADAM Appoints Eventus’ Mike Castiglione as Chair of New National Security Working Group
ADAM (The Association for Digital Asset Markets) has appointed Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets at Eventus, as Chair of its new National Security Working Group. Castiglione, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, brings broad national security experience to the role. Building on its previous efforts in the national security space, ADAM…
Trading Technologies Appoints Nick Garrow as EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side
Trading software, infrastructure and data solutions vendor Trading Technologies, has appointed London-based industry veteran Nick Garrow in the newly created position of EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side. Garrow has more than 20 years of senior management experience in capital markets and prime brokerage, most recently at Societe Generale (SG) Prime Services in London, where he…
Axe Trading Appoints Greville Lucking as CEO
Fixed income trading software company Axe trading has appointed Greville Lucking as its new Chief Executive Officer. Lucking has been with the firm since 2018 in the role of Head of Customer Support & Integration. Earlier in his career, Lucking was Chief Operating Officer of EMBonds until their acquisition by BGC Partners in 2018. He…
smartTrade Appoints Three New Managers to its Executive Leadership Team
smartTrade, the provider of electronic trading solutions, has strengthened its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Carine Denis as Global Head of Business Operations, Renaud Kerspern as Chief Financial Officer and Elise van der Schans as Chief Human Resources Officer. Denis joins from Finastra where her roles included those of Regional Operating Officer and…
Eventus Hires Nick Wallis as Managing Director, EMEA
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has appointed Nick Wallis as as Managing Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Wallis has extensive experience in financial markets, energy derivatives and technology, including 12 years at Nasdaq, where he ran its surveillance sales and account management in EMEA, having moved into…
Liquidnet Hires James Rubinstein to Head Execution and Quantitative Services, Americas
Agency broker Liquidnet has appointed James Rubinstein as Head of Execution and Quantitative Services (EQS), Americas, based in New York. Rubinstein will be responsible for setting and leading the strategic direction for Liquidnet’s EQS offering in the region, and will report directly to Rob Laible, Global Head of Equities. Rubinstein joins Liquidnet from BNP Paribas,…
BMLL Expands US Footprint and Hires Tim Baker as Senior Adviser
Data and analytics vendor BMLL has appointed Tim Baker as Senior Adviser. Based in New York, he will be responsible for growing BMLL’s US client base, developing and implementing the company’s growth strategy in the region, in response to increasing client demand for the company’s Level 3 Data and Analytics. Baker is a seasoned innovator,…
Pico Appoints Stacie Swanstrom as Chief Product Officer
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community, has named Stacie Swanstrom as Chief Product Officer. Following the company’s recent acquisition of Redline Trading Solutions, Swanstrom will lead Pico’s newly expanded product management team to deliver new product innovation through PicoNet, the company’s ultra-low latency global network. Swanstrom’s experience includes 27 years…
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Upcoming Webinar: Market data in the cloud
Date: 8 December 2022 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Over the past several years, the topic of market data in the cloud has been hotly debated – latency has been an issue, which data to put in the cloud has been discussed, and lines have been drawn. But…
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A-Team Innovation Briefing: Innovation in Cloud
This Innovation Briefing will explore approaches to data infrastructure transformation, technologies required and how to make sure processes are optimised to support real time data management. Hear from leading practitioners and innovative technology solution providers who will share insight into how to set up and leverage your data infrastructure to provide user access to consistent data and analytics, and companies the ability to monetise their data.
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Trading Regulations Handbook 2022
Welcome to the third edition of A-Team Group’s Trading Regulations Handbook, a publication designed to help you gain a full understanding of regulations that have an impact on your trading operations, data and technology. The handbook provides details of each regulation and its requirements, as well as ‘at-a-glance’ summaries, regulatory timelines and compliance deadlines, and…
Top White Papers
Benefiting from Advanced Execution in US Treasury Markets
The expanded footprint of electronic non-bank liquidity providers (NLPs) and established broker/dealers, as well as the proliferation of electronic aggregation platforms, are all adding complexity to fixed-income markets, which as a result are starting to resemble established electronic markets like equities and foreign exchange. For market participants, this has added to the challenge of sourcing...
B2B Data Marketplaces and Beyond
Financial institutions and corporations often generate huge quantities of data as a by product of their core activities. This data – details of historical transactions, customer interactions and metadata for referring to instruments, counterparties or entities – can provide valuable insights for industry participants, and form the basis of a meaningful data sales business. But...
Exchanges Are Becoming Data Marketplaces
Exchanges and other trading venues have long derived revenue from sales of their data; in some cases they operate substantial businesses based around sales of their real-time quotes and other market data services. But few are well set up to deal with growing demand for other datasets they may generate from their core activities, such...
Events and webinars
Recorded Webinar: Trading Beyond the Horizon
You can listen to the recording of this webinar by registering on this page. Click below to watch the recorded webinar, or download the white paper–for free! In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage...
Recorded Webinar: Building Low Latency Trading Systems in Low Latency Time
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Click below to watch the webinar (recorded Nov. 9, 2010). In today’s ultra-competitive electronic trading marketplace, having lower latency than the rest is the only way to succeed. But there’s more to success than just the lowest latency system – your firm also needs...
Recorded Webinar: Mission Possible – Turning Data Deluge into Opportunities for Financial Trading
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. As financial markets firms face the challenge of managing huge volumes of extremely high frequency data, the opportunity exists to transition from just managing this data to strategically leveraging it for new trading and investment opportunities. What was once the impossible is now a...
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TradingTech Insight Awards USA
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 4th annual TradingTech Insight Awards – USA 2022. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions.
