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BestEx Research System Offers Continuous TCA Review to Reduce Implicit Costs
Former AQR trading chief Hitesh Mittal’s new BestEx Research Group has launched its multi-asset trading system with a strong emphasis on best execution and lower trading costs. The new platform features a back-testing platform, broker-neutral transaction cost analysis (TCA) and sophisticated execution algorithms, which will be made available to more than 500 fund managers via...
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BestEx Research System Offers Continuous TCA Review to Reduce Implicit Costs
Former AQR trading chief Hitesh Mittal’s new BestEx Research Group has launched its multi-asset trading system with a strong emphasis on best execution and lower trading costs. The new platform features a back-testing platform, broker-neutral transaction cost analysis (TCA) and sophisticated execution algorithms, which will be made available to more than 500 fund managers via...
New FX Spot Benchmark Launched by Raidne to Fix Past Challenges
Outsourced trading services specialist Raidne has teamed up with New Change FX to launch a new foreign exchange fixing benchmark aimed at providing an alternative to the WM/Reuters (WMR) benchmark, which has been at the centre of ongoing manipulation allegations. The new Siren benchmark has been designed to reduce the risk of abuse that has...
Why the Finance Industry Needs Traceable Timing Across All its Operations
By Richard Hoptroff, Founder and CTO of Hoptroff London. As the virtual world expands, so do the applications for highly accurate, traceable time. Its most established industry is finance. If clocks on servers drift and are untraceable back to a verified source of universal time (UTC), conflicts can arise. Orders can look as if they...
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US SEC Seeks Fairer Market Data Access, Deeper Data in SIP Feeds
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is calling for reforms that would level the playing field for access to market data. In a bid to narrow the differential between those with access to high-cost data feeds that contain a greater depth of information, and other investors in the marketplace, the SEC proposals would subject…
IOSCO Calls for Parity on Crypto-Asset Trading Platform Scrutiny
Crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs) such should be subject to the same kinds of standards that other types of trading platforms are, according to a new report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The report – Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms – suggests that regulators look at: access to…
Deutsche Bank Partners Xceptor at Indonesian Corporate Bank
Deutsche Bank’s corporate bank and Xceptor have partnered to automate the bank’s core processes in Indonesia as part of a broader optimisation and digitisation strategy. Xceptor provides AI-enabled data centric automation software to drive productivity and operational efficiency. As part of this partnership, Xceptor will help to automate reconciliations with multiple external parties for the…
JP Morgan Invests in Fund Administration Specialist Arcesium
New York-based investment management technology and post-trade services provider Arcesium has won strategic funding from JP Morgan. Arcesium was originally launched by investment and technology giant D E Shaw Group in 2015 on a platform developed for its own post-trade activities, with backing from Blackstone, which became one of its first clients. Its Securities Services…
TP ICAP Implements MDXT for Client Content
In early February, MDX Technology (MDXT), announced that TP ICAP’s Data & Analytics business has gone live with MDXT’s data distribution solution. MDXT was integrated with the broker’s Data & Analytics division’s core infrastructure to collect real-time data for direct distribution to clients via multiple end points, including Microsoft Excel, web portals, mobile apps and…
FCA Paper Calls Latency Arbitrage ‘Tax’ on Non-HFT Traders
In a further signal that regulators may seek to address what they see as information and process asymmetries within HFT firms’ trading strategies, the UK’s FCA last month published a research paper claiming that latency arbitrage results in a global “tax” on non-HFT investors in equity markets. The paper says HFT firms’ use of faster…
TRG Screen Completes Integration of FITS and INFOmatch with PEAR
TRG Screen has competed the integration of its spend management platforms FITS and INFOmatch with its PEAR exchange compliance database. INFOmatch & FITS give users clarity they need to take control of market data, research, software and enterprise subscription spend across the enterprise, while PEAR consolidates exchange information, including policies and pricing, into a searchable online…
London Metal Exchange Partners Trading Technologies
The London Metal Exchange has partnered Trading Technologies (TT) to supply the exchange’s trading participants with direct access to the exchange via the TT front-end interface. TT will replace the LME’s current GUI when its new trading platform launches in 2021. Delivered via software-as-a-service, the TT platform will provide LME members and members’ clients around…
Redline Onboards 24Exchange to Expand Support for NDF Trading
Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, is supporting 24Exchange, a new offshore, multi-asset class, OTC platform, on its InRush Ticker Plant and Order Execution Gateway for its FX clients. 24Exchange becomes a market data and routing destination on the Redline Trading Solutions Network with mutual…
Options Collaborates with Pure Storage on All-Flash Storage-as-a-Service
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services, has collaborated with Pure Storage to deliver all-NVMe (non-volatile memory express), all-flash cloud storage to capital markets. Built on Storage-as-a-Service infrastructure from Pure Storage, the solution allows Options’ customers to reliably store data at scale and access the information instantly across its global financial network. Customers can also…
IHS Markit Collaborates with Yieldbroker to Enhance Trade Cost Analysis
IHS Markit is enhancing fixed income analytics in its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service in collaboration with Yieldbroker, a Tier 1 licensed electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives. The alliance unites IHS Markit’s multi asset TCA tool, independent bond pricing and liquidity data, with Yieldbroker’s six trillion of annual…
Xignite Offers Trade Data in AWS Data Exchange
In late January, Xignite announced that their financial data APIs are available in AWS Data Exchange, a new service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Other qualified data providers working with AWS Data Exchange include Reuters and Dun & Bradstreet. Xignite…
TickSmith Renames TickVault to TickSmith GOLD
TickSmith has renamed its Big Data platform, TickVault, as TickSmith GOLD – gather, organise, leverage and distribute. GOLD manages thousands of data sets representing petabytes of data and the change was made to accurately represent how the platform works from the moment data is ingested, to the moment it is distributed. Also to also highlight…
Charles River Integrates Investment Management Solution with ChartIQ
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, has integrated its investment management solution, Charles River IMS, with ChartIQ, enabling the company to provide institutional traders with visualisation tools that deliver greater insight into data around investment decisions. The integration helps traders conduct pre-trade technical analysis, gauge in-trade market impact and better understand post-trade execution quality….
Fenics GO Adds Citadel to Trading Platform for Exchange Listed Futures and Option
Fenics GO, a division of BGC Partners, has announced that Citadel Securities, a leading global market maker, has joined its electronic trading platform for exchange listed futures and options. Citadel Securities joins IMC, Maven Securities and Optiver in providing committed two-way liquidity in Eurex listed Euro Stoxx 50 Index Options and related Delta 1 strategies…
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Itiviti Names Josh Monroe as Head of Americas
Itiviti has appointed Josh Monroe as managing director, head of Americas region. An accomplished sales executive and sales coach with more than 15 years of financial industry experience, Monroe joins Itiviti from Ned Davis Research, where he was global head of sales. He started his career at Morgan Stanley before joining SAC Capital Advisors where…
SteelEye Appoints Rob Bernstein as Chief Financial Officer
Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye has confirmed the hire of Rob Bernstein as its new CFO. He joins from RegTek Solutions, which was acquired by Bloomberg in August 2019, where he was CFO since February 2018. Bernstein has more than 10 years’ experience as a finance executive, formerly with London-based tech firm TIM…
CloudMargin Promotes Armando Hernandez to Expand Presence in North America
London-based CloudMargin, provider of a collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has promoted Armando Hernandez to the new role of executive director, head of North America. Hernandez joined CloudMargin in September 2018 as director of new business development for North America. In his new role, reporting to CEO Stuart Connolly, Hernandez takes…
LiquidityBook Adds to EMEA Client Service Team
LiquidityBook, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) trading solutions, has named two London-based hires for its EMEA client service team. James Pearson joins from Schneider Trading Associates, where he most recently served as head of IT and takes on the role of technical implementation analyst; while Abdullah Al Nasiri joins from Fidessa to serve as a…
LSEG Names Arne Staal Head of Research and Product Management, Information Services
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has named Arne Staal to the newly created role of head of research and product management in its Information Services Division (ISD). Staal will lead the two complementary areas of ISD, linking up research and thought leadership with product strategy and development. Staal joins LSEG from Aberdeen Standard Investments where…
Charles River Development Names Spiros Giannaros as President
Charles River Development, a State Street company, has named Spiros Giannaros as president with responsibility for day-to-day operations of the company including product, development, sales and services for the Charles River Investment Management Solution. Giannaros will report to John Plansky, CEO of Charles River and leader of State Street Global Exchange and State Street AlphaSM….
CQG Hires to Bolster Asia Pacific Presence
CQG, a provider of technology solutions for traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, has announced that Benjamin Soong has joined the firm as president, APAC, and Rick Chang as head of Greater China. Rod Giffen, formerly CQG president, APAC, takes the new role of chief experience officer. Soong joins CQG from Ledger, where he was…
Redline Hires Andrij Wowkodaw as Global Head of FX Exchange
Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, has named Andrij Wowkodaw as global head of foreign exchange. Wowkodaw brings over 15 years of buy-side and sell-side electronic and algorithmic trading experience to Redline. Most recently, he was director of eFX quantitative analysis at Scotiabank. Before that,…
Luminex Adds Financial and Technology Professionals
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue delivering efficient, low-cost block executions, has hired three financial and technology professionals to meet growing engagement with its platform by its community of investment management firms. Joshua Reed has joined as a sales and relationship manager, Joshua Opper as director of infrastructure, and Robin Burr as…
DTCC Promotes Lynn Bishop to CIO
DTCC has appointed Lynn Bishop as chief information officer with responsibility for the ongoing development and testing of the technology that supports DTCC’s post-trade infrastructure, communications networks, processing and messaging systems, as well as the IT applications underlying DTCC’s products and services. Bishop is a member of the firm’s management committee and reports directly to…
Mark Hemsley Plans Retirement from Cboe in 2020
Mark Hemsley, executive vice president at Cboe Global Markets and president of Cboe Europe, is planning to retire from the company at the end of February 2020. David Howson, chief operating officer of Cboe Europe since 2013, will succeed Hemsley and assume his roles on January 1, 2020. Hemsley was a founding employee of Bats…
TP ICAP Appoints Ex RBC Capital Markets MD as Head of Strategy
TP ICAP has appointed Joanna Nader as global head of strategy. She was previously managing director at RBC Capital Markets, where she was head of diversified/speciality financials research, covering a number of companies including TP ICAP. Before joining RBC Capital Markets, Nader spent nearly 10 years as the chief investment officer of JRJ Group, a…
BMLL names OSTC CEO Lee Hodgkinson as non-exec director
BMLL Technologies, a data-engineering-as-a-service company, has named Lee Hodgkinson, CEO of OSTC, a global derivative trading and education firm, as chairman of the board. He becomes a non-executive director land will use his practical industry and exchange experience to support BMLL’s existing data engineering and analytics capabilities, as well as its ambitions to provide more…
Moody’s Names Senior Executives
Moody’s Corporation has named Robert Fauber, currently president of Moody’s Investors Service (MIS), to the new role of chief operating officer of Moody’s Corporation. Fauber will drive the company’s strategic initiatives to maximize the company’s strengths and position it for the next stage of growth. Moody’s has also named Michael West to succeed Fauber as…
Moody’s Names Head of Diversity and Inclusion
Moody’s Corporation has named DK Bartley as managing director and head of diversity & inclusion (D&I) with responsibility for leading the company’s global D&I programmes in support of its diverse workforce and commitment to an inclusive culture. Bartley joins Moody’s from Dentsu Aegis, a media and digital marketing company, where he served as senior vice…
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Adopting AI for Superior Reconciliations
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How to Exploit the Opportunities of Alternative Data
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