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Resilience Amid Conflict: Maintaining Operations During the Ukraine Crisis
When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, escalating the war that had started in 2014, the humanitarian and economic impacts were immediately profound and far-reaching. The invasion and subsequent attacks caused the widespread destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and critical infrastructure such as water and electricity supplies, severely affecting living conditions and access to essential...
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CQG Unveils AI Predictive Model for Traders in Futures Market, Tested at 80% Accuracy
CQG, the financial markets technology solutions provider, has announced the successful completion of testing of its artificial intelligence (AI) predictive model for traders, boasting an impressive 80% accuracy rate in forecasting the future movements of the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract. The newly developed machine learning (ML) toolkit is designed to provide retail traders and...
Archax Partners with Talos to Enhance Institutional Crypto Trading and Custody Services
Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Talos, the institutional crypto trading platform. By incorporating its institutional-grade exchange and custody services into the Talos platform, Archax will leverage Talos’s advanced platform capabilities to provide institutional clients with broader access to a diverse range of crypto...
BMLL Moves into Historical Level 1 and Level 2 Data, Building on Level 3 Granularity
Historical market data and analytics provider BMLL, specialists in the provision of Level 3 data, are now offering historical Level 1 and Level 2 data and analytics, built from the ground up based upon their extensive Level 3 datasets. Level 3 data comprises the full order book, and includes every individual message sent to and...
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Sterling Trading Tech Expands into Asia
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), the independent OMS, risk and trading platform vendor, has unveiled its strategic expansion into Asia for 2024, targeting the key financial hubs of Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. This initiative is driven by the demand for more sophisticated OMS and Risk solutions in Asia, and will cater to the needs of…
FlexTrade Integrates with Coinbase Prime for Enhanced Digital Asset Trading
FlexTrade Systems, the multi-asset execution and order management systems provider, has announced its integration with Coinbase Prime, a prime broker platform for digital and crypto assets. This collaboration allows FlexTrade’s clients to access a significant liquidity pool for digital assets through its FlexTRADER EMS and FlexONE OEMS. The integration offers users seamless connectivity, a consolidated…
Imandra Achieves ISO 27001 Certification, Strengthening Its Position in Financial AI Solutions
Imandra, a startup in the field of automated reasoning for financial and safety-critical software systems, has been awarded the ISO 27001 certification, underscoring the company’s commitment to the highest standards of information security and data privacy. The certification recognises the company’s adherence to the international standards for cybersecurity, through the establishment of a robust Information…
QuantCube Technology Launches Advanced Agricultural Yield Forecasts for Key Commodities
QuantCube Technology, specialists in alternative macroeconomic data, has introduced a series of four QuantCube Agricultural Yield Forecasts, offering early estimates for corn, soybean, wheat, and rice yields on regional, national, and global scales. Utilising proprietary models together with agricultural expertise, these forecasts provide daily yield predictions four months ahead of the US Department of Agriculture’s…
SIX Partners with Clearstream to Enhance Reference Data Distribution Through Connexor and D7 Integration
SIX, the Swiss financial market infrastructure provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Clearstream to integrate SIX’s Connexor platform with D7, Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform. The collaboration aims to digitise and standardise the processing and distribution of financial instrument reference data, aligning with the German eWpG regulation and responding to market demands for…
OSTTRA and Baton Systems Partners to Launches FX PvP Service to Mitigate Bilateral Settlement Risk
Post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA, has unveiled a new FX PvP (Payment versus Payment) settlement orchestration service, aimed at reducing bilateral settlement risk among participants. Delivered on distributed ledger technology (DLT) from Baton Systems, the initiative seeks to enhance intraday funding, liquidity, and credit risk management. The service, which facilitates the settlement of transactions not covered…
Aquis Markets Introduces Conditional Order Functionality to Enhance Trading Efficiency
Aquis Markets, the pan-European equities trading arm of Aquis Exchange PLC, has introduced conditional order functionality on its Aquis UK and Aquis EU platforms. This enables members to simultaneously post liquidity across multiple venues without the risk of over-trading. Through this functionality, members can issue an ‘Indication of Interest’ (IOI), which may trigger a ‘firm-up…
Trading Technologies Announces Connectivity to EPEX SPOT for European Power Trading
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), has unveiled its new connection to the European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT), the largest power exchange in Europe, marking a significant expansion into the European physical power markets via the TT platform. This strategic move, developed in partnership with a major European energy supplier, introduces a continuous intraday power trading…
Goldman Sachs Surpasses 99% Same-Day Affirmation Rate with DTCC’s CTM’s M2i Workflow
With T+1 settlement now just three months away, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC has achieved over a 99% same-day affirmation rate and significant improvements in settlement rates for transactions using DTCC’s CTM’s Match to Instruct (M2i) workflow in Q4 2023. This includes a 38% decrease in same-day affirmation exceptions and a 64% reduction in US…
Adaptive Announces Performance Breakthroughs with Aeron Technology on Google Cloud
Adaptive Financial Consulting (Adaptive) has announced significant performance improvements for its Aeron technology, a cloud-native, open-source, low-latency message transport and cluster technology, following extensive testing on Google Cloud infrastructure. The collaboration between Adaptive and Google Cloud showcased Aeron’s ability to deliver microsecond latency and millisecond recovery, enabling low-latency, resilient trading systems without relying on traditional…
Imandra Brings AI-Powered Automated Reasoning and Digital Twin Technology to European Exchange Landscape
Imandra, an innovative AI startup, has made significant gains in the European exchange market with its flagship product, Imandra Markets, which now oversees technology responsible for about 25% of all European equities trading. Imandra Markets offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered services aimed at enhancing the design, testing, calibration, and auditing of complex financial systems….
Tokenbridge Introduces New Features to Enhance Tokenised Model Portfolios in Wealth Management
Tokenbridge, the token aggregator and distribution platform, has unveiled a set of new features aimed at revolutionising the wealth and fund management industry through the support of tokenised model portfolios. The new functionalities facilitate seamless integration and automation between tokenised and traditional finance (TradFi) assets, streamlining the construction, distribution, and evaluation of model portfolios. The…
S&P Global Introduces AI-Enabled Search on Marketplace Platform
S&P Global has launched a new AI-enabled search feature on its Marketplace platform, designed to transform how users discover the company’s data and solutions offerings across its five divisions and from curated third-party providers. The Generative AI search, developed in collaboration between S&P’s Market Intelligence and Kensho divisions, offers a more intuitive and efficient search…
SimCorp Partners with Venn by Two Sigma to Enhance Multi-Asset Portfolio Management
SimCorp, the investment management solutions provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Venn by Two Sigma, aimed at revolutionising the management of multi-asset portfolios. The collaboration integrates SimCorp’s Axioma’s equity factor models with Venn’s advanced factor analytics, addressing the increasing complexity in portfolio management as investors shift from traditional asset allocations to more diverse investments,…
LTX Secures Four Patents for Fixed Income Trading Innovations, Enhancing Bond Market Efficiency
Electronic trading platform LTX, a Broadridge subsidiary, has been awarded four new patents for its fixed income trading technology. The patents encompass bond similarity technology, dealer selection score technology, liquidity aggregation technology, and RFQ+ trading protocol, innovations designed to streamline pre-trade decision-making and optimise trade execution in the corporate bond market. Together, the patents enhance…
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SIGMA Financial AI Appoints Rachel Przybylski as Chief Product Officer
AI-driven trading solutions vendor SIGMA Financial AI has announced the appointment of Rachel Przybylski as the company’s new Chief Product Officer. With a career spanning over two decades in global financial markets, Przybylski has an extensive background with leadership positions at Saxo Capital Markets, Nasdaq, and Nomura. Her expertise includes managing complex trading and regulatory…
BMLL Appoints Former HSBC Executive Niall Cameron as Non-Executive Director
Historical market data and analytics provider BMLL has announced the appointment of Niall Cameron as a Non-Executive Director to support the company’s strategic development. Cameron, who’s career spans over three decades and has included executive roles at HSBC, IHS Markit, and ABN Amro, also joins BMLL’s group of investors. The appointment of Cameron, who comes…
Bob Wigley Joins R3 as Non-Executive Director to Boost Digital Finance Strategy
R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) company, has appointed Bob Wigley as a Non-Executive Director to its board. Wigley brings extensive digital finance expertise to R3, having chaired UK Finance for the last six years and spearheading the UK Finance digital tokenization taskforce. He previously served as the EMEA Chairman at Merrill Lynch, where…
DiffusionData Appoints Neil Seymour as New Chief Operating Officer
DiffusionData, the real-time data streaming and messaging platform vendor, has promoted Neil Seymour to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Previously the Head of Engineering at the company, Seymour brings a wealth of experience from his past roles, including positions at Vizolution and Lexmark Enterprise Solutions. With over three decades of expertise in system development, integration, and…
Trading Technologies Strengthens Leadership Team with Three Key Appointments
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has appointed Justin Llewellyn-Jones as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Christopher Heffernan as EVP of Fixed Income, and Alun Green as EVP of Futures & Options. These strategic appointments, with Llewellyn-Jones and Heffernan operating out of New York and Green in London, underscore TT’s commitment to expanding its global footprint and…
FlexTrade Systems Appoints Michael Kovach as Head of Fixed Income Sales in Americas
FlexTrade Systems the multi-asset execution & order management systems vendor, has announced the appointment of Michael Kovach as Head of Fixed Income Sales in the Americas. Kovach, an experienced professional with a 20-year tenure in the FinTech sector, will focus on enhancing FlexTrade’s market position in Fixed Income Electronic Trading Solutions. He previously served as…
Exegy Appoints Brian Pomraning as Chief Revenue Officer
Trading and market data systems vendor Exegy has appointed industry veteran Brian Pomraning as Chief Revenue Officer. With 25 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry, including product management, technology, sales, and marketing, Pomraning has a proven track record of transforming and growing global businesses and cross-functional teams. During his career, Pomraning has…
Trumid Appoints Jason Quinn as Global Head of Sales Amid Platform Growth
Fixed income electronic trading technology company Trumid has appointed Jason Quinn as its Global Head of Sales. Quinn, a founding member of Trumid’s leadership team and its Chief Product Officer, will now oversee the company’s commercial division, merging product and sales into one strategic unit. The move is intended to further integrate technology, product, and…
Vista Equity Partners Invests in TRG Screen for Strategic Growth; Leigh Walters Steps Up as New CEO
TRG Screen, the provider of enterprise subscription spend and usage management software, has received a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. TRG Screen will use the capital to accelerate product innovation, talent acquisition, and go-to-market functions. Leigh Walters has been…
DTCC Appoints Brian Steele as President of Clearing & Securities Services
DTCC has appointed Brian Steele as the Managing Director, President, Clearing & Securities Services. Starting from October 2, 2023, Steele will oversee all DTCC Clearing and Securities Services areas, such as Equity Clearing, Fixed Income Clearing, and Wealth Management Services. In the new role, Steele will report directly to Frank La Salla, DTCC’s President and…
LSEG Appoints Charlie Walker as Deputy CEO of London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has appointed Charlie Walker as Deputy CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc. He will also join the LSE plc Board, subject to regulatory approval. Walker will continue to report to Julia Hoggett, CEO of LSE plc to support the daily running of the exchange while continuing to oversee the…
Adaptive Appoints Dave Clack as Chief Product Officer
Adaptive Financial Consulting has appointed Dave Clack as its new Chief Product Officer, a strategic role focusing on the innovation of Aeron, Adaptive’s cloud-native messaging infrastructure for the capital markets. Clack will be responsible for driving growth, overseeing product development, and shortening the time it takes for financial firms to deploy trading architectures into the…
DiffusionData Appoints Former CME Group Executive Scott Fink as Managing Director for the Americas
DiffusionData, a company specialising in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, has appointed Scott Fink as its new Managing Director for the Americas. Fink, formerly an Executive Director of Site Reliability Engineering at CME Group, will oversee customer and partner engagements across the US, Canada, and Latin America. During his tenure at CME Group, Fink…
Delta Capital Names Alan Philpot as Chief Product Officer and DLT Lead
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, has appointed Alan Philpot as chief product officer. Philpot brings more than 30 years’ experience in operations and strategy across financial markets and joins from SETL where he was head of custody and market infrastructure. He has also held senior roles in post-trade and…
Global Relay Promotes Sahar Kayhani and Alex Viall to Key Leadership Roles
Global Relay, a provider of electronic communication compliance and archiving solutions, has promoted Sahar Kayhani to Chief Product Officer and Alex Viall to Chief Strategy Officer. Kayhani most recently spent two years as product director overseeing Global Relay’s data capture and archiving solutions, while Viall served as director of regulatory intelligence for the company. Kayhani,…
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Institutional Digital Assets Handbook 2023
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now…
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Trading in the Public Cloud: Attitudes to Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets
Capital markets have been slow to embrace cloud technologies and in particular the public cloud. Practitioners have been wary of issues around speed/performance, privacy and cost, all of which can dampen the appeal of cloud technologies for trading firms. But broad acceptance of cloud beyond finance is highlighting some compelling benefits, primarily in terms of...
How Banks Harness the Value of Cloud for Scale and Agility
Financial services are recognizing the benefits that data-led processes can bring and are undergoing digital transformations that are putting data at the heart of their operations and decisions-making processes. They are seizing on data as an asset whose value can be unlocked through technology to increase revenue and reduce costs across the entire enterprise. With...
Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services
Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are...
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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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