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Push Technology Rebrands as DiffusionData and Sets Out Market Alignment Strategy
DiffusionData, formerly known as Push Technology, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, today announced the final details of the company’s business realignment strategy and launched its new name and brand. The company’s stated mission under the new branding of DiffusionData is to manage and reduce the costs of data consumption, transformation and...
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Tradeweb & S&P Global Market Intelligence Collaborate to Link Up European Primary & Secondary Bond Markets
Tradeweb, the electronic marketplace operator, has collaborated with S&P Global Market Intelligence, the financial information services provider, to introduce electronic connectivity between primary and secondary markets for European credit, covered, sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) bonds. With the integration of InvestorAccess, S&P Global Market Intelligence’s digital primary market platform, Tradeweb clients will now be able...
Buy to Build: How Providers Help Make Unique Trade Surveillance Systems Possible
By Ollie Cadman, Chief Product Officer, Eventus. “Buy versus Build” was a dilemma that financial institutions traditionally faced when working to create modern surveillance systems or other key elements in the risk technology stack. What groups were trying to figure out was whether purchasing products and services was more cost-effective and future-proofed than building a...
Depicting Crypto’s Data Dilemma Before the Next Winter Cold Bites
By Berta Ares Lombán, Head of Digital Assets Financial Information at SIX. The crypto winter, when a basket of leading cryptocurrencies lost around $1.9 trillion in value, put a much-needed spotlight on the long-term future of digital assets. While this is not the first time cryptocurrencies have seen significant adjustments to their valuations, the fallout...
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DBS Deploys Nasdaq Surveillance Technology to Support Market Integrity
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, announced that it will leverage Nasdaq Trade Surveillance technology to advance its surveillance and market integrity efforts. Nasdaq’s solutions will improve DBS’s ability to analyse market abuse surveillance scenarios and detect trading anomalies across equities and derivatives markets as well as OTC FX markets. The technology will provide DBS with…
SS&C Partners with Coinbase to Offer Front-to-Back Crypto Management Solution
SS&C Eze has partnered with Coinbase to offer clients access to Coinbase Prime, an institutional platform for digital assets. Through the partnership, traders using Eze Investment Suite can manage their crypto trading processes in one place, from pre-trade compliance to custody. Coinbase Prime is an institutional platform providing secure custody, smart order routing, data &…
IPC Becomes Approved Application Service Provider for SIX Swiss Exchange
Communications and networking solutions vendor IPC has become an approved Application Service Provider (ASP) for SIX Swiss Exchange with Connexus Extranet, the company’s performance-engineered financial extranet for electronic trading, which leverages IPC’s Connexus Cloud to provide connectivity to a global community of capital market participants. The collaboration between IPC and SIX Swiss Exchange builds on…
FlexTrade Integrates Glimpse Markets Pooled Trading Data for Fixed Income
FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution & order management systems vendor, has integrated trading data from Glimpse Markets, a buy-side data sharing platform for bond markets, into FlexFI, FlexTrade’s fixed income EMS. With the two-way integration, fixed income traders can incorporate and process Glimpse’s aggregated trade data into FlexFI’s Bond Widget. Using FlexFI’s visualisation tools, dynamic sorting…
Eventus Deploys Validus at SpiderRock
Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has deployed its Validus platform at SpiderRock Terchnology Services, an algo execution and risk management technology provider servicing institutional trading firms and agency broker-dealers. The platform is initially being used for the firm’s client activity in futures and options. SpiderRock cited Eventus’ ability to handle extraordinarily large…
Broadway Introduces Support for Eris BSBY Swap Futures
Broadway, the front-office solutions provider, has announced support for trading Eris BSBY Swap Futures within its SaaS trading solutions suite. Eris BSBY enables market participants to forecast and hedge rates on the 3-month Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index. The new functionality, which allows clients to seamlessly manage credit risk as they migrate from Libor to…
TS Imagine Chosen by Varenne Capital to Support its Trading Activities
Varenne Capital, a Paris-based global investment manager, has selected TradeSmart OEMS from TS Imagine to support its trading activities. TradeSmart OEMS will automate Varenne’s execution process, support its portfolio management system, modernize and reduce time-consuming workflows and increase functionality across the firm’s trading operations, according to the company. The announcement follows TS Imagine’s strong growth…
Metalor Chooses smartTrade for Enhanced Precious Metals Trading Services
Metalor, an independent company specialising in precious metals refining, advanced coatings and electrotechnics activities, has selected Liquidity FX from electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies, to offer enhanced precious metals trading services to its global client base. A commitment from smartTrade to fast implementation whilst tailoring the platform to Metalor’s specific needs was key to…
Liquidnet Joins Sustainable Trading
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has become a member of Sustainable Trading, the non-profit membership network launched earlier this year, dedicated to transforming environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. Sustainable Trading brings firms together to devise practical and sustainable solutions to industry-specific ESG issues, as well as providing…
Overbond Partners with TMX Group to Integrate Canadian Bond Data into Trading Tools & Analytics
Overbond, the fixed income AI analytics and trade automation solutions vendor, has partnered with Toronto-based TMX Group, to increase the coverage, the pricing precision and the discovery of best-executable pricing and liquidity in Canadian dollar-denominated bonds, by integrating CDS FIPS settlement-layer Canadian bond data into Overbond’s AI fixed income trading tools and analytics. The integration…
SIX and TP ICAP Partner to Allow Clearing of TP ICAP MTF Trades on SIX x-clear
Clearing services provider SIX has partnered with market infrastructure provider TP ICAP, to allow participants of TP ICAP’s markets to clear their UK and EU MTF trades on SIX x-clear. The partnership with SIX introduces CCP clearing to TP ICAP’s trading venues for the first time. SIX already offers clearing services to 19 different trading…
Infront Acquires Assetmax
Financial solutions vendor Infront AS has entered an agreement to acquire Swiss asset management software company Assetmax for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will strengthen Infront’s product offering for wealth management customers across Europe. Assetmax launched its first product in 2016 and expects revenues of approximately EUR 5.5m for 2022, having achieved 35% CAGR between…
Baton Systems Adds OCC to Collateral Management Network
Post-trade fintech Baton Systems has expanded its Baton Core-Collateral network to include connectivity to the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). Baton’s Core-Collateral solution enables Clearing Members to automate and optimise their collateral management processes by providing intraday visibility of current margin obligations and collateral holdings at chosen CCPs. With the addition of OCC, clearing firms will…
DTCC’s Project Ion Goes Live, Processing Over 100,000 Transactions Per Day on DLT
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the market infrastructure provider, has gone live in a parallel production environment with the Project Ion platform, an alternative equities settlement platform that leverages distributed ledger technology (DLT). The platform is now parallel processing an average of over 100,000 bilateral equity transactions per day, and almost 160,000 transactions…
Norges Bank Investment Management Completes First Trade on Appital Turquoise Book Builder
Appital, the equity capital markets technology solution, and Turquoise, the pan-European MTF majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group, have gone live with the Appital Turquoise BookBuilder, with Norges Bank Investment Management successfully originating and executing the first trade, through a series of bilateral transactions. According to Appital, this is the world’s first algorithmic buy…
Latest people
Northern Trust Appoints Michael Buzza to New Leadership Role
Northern Trust has appointed Michael Buzza as global head of Network Management & Market Strategy. In the new role, Buzza will oversee the teams dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets within the Digital Assets and Financial Markets group. Buzza has been with Northern Trust for 16 years, his…
TS Imagine Appoints Three New Hires to Executive Team
Trading and risk management solutions vendor TS Imagine has appointed three executive leadership hires to support the firm’s rapid growth: Spencer Lee as Chief Markets Officer, Kate Peachway as Chief Financial Officer and Renee Calabro as Chief Marketing Officer. Lee comes from Agilon Capital, a systematic hedge fund. Previously he led electronic credit trading at…
big xyt Names Anthony Huck as Head of the Americas
big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytic solutions, has appointed Anthony (Tony) Huck to its global executive team as Head of the Americas. He will be responsible for expanding the firm’s global footprint into the United States, Canadian, and LatAm regions. Huck brings over thirty years of experience to the role, having…
Sterling Trading Tech Names Jennifer Nayar as President & CEO
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), the independent OMS, risk and trading platform vendor, has appointed fintech & capital markets industry veteran Jennifer Nayar as President & Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Most recently, Nayar was CEO of Vela Trading Systems, prior to its acquisition by Exegy. Earlier in her career, Nayar served with REDI Global Technologies…
Northern Trust Establishes Capital Markets Client Solutions Team and Announces Senior Appointments
Northern Trust has made a series of appointments within its global Capital Markets business and established a Capital Markets Client Solutions team. Within the Capital Markets institutional equity brokerage business, Glenn Poulter has been named global head of Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS), with Stephanie Farrell head of ITS-Americas and Amy Thorne head of ITS-EMEA. Additionally,…
Eventus Appoints Robbie McDonnell as Sales Director, Australia & New Zealand
Eventus, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that Robbie McDonnell has joined the firm as Sales Director, Australia & New Zealand. A 30-year veteran of financial markets technology, McDonnel has held a variety of senior roles, including in global sales and regional expansion in the Asia-Pacific (APAC)…
Liquidnet Appoints Nichola Hunter as Global Head of Sales for Fixed Income
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has appointed Nichola Hunter as Global Head of Sales for Fixed Income. Hunter will be responsible for growing client relationships through the delivery of tailored and innovative solutions. Based in London, she reports directly to Liquidnet’s Global Head of Fixed Income, Mark Russell. Hunter brings over 25 years of…
OpenFin Appoints Vicky Sanders as Chief Digital Officer
OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, has appointed Vicky Sanders as Chief Digital Officer, to drive digital transformation across the company’s ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side institutions, along with the global vendor community. Sanders most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer for TP ICAP Group’s Agency Execution division, where she was responsible for overseeing…
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…
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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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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…
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Adopting a Modern Data Infrastructure for Trading Analytics
As they seek an edge in their trading and investment activities, hedge funds and other sophisticated trading firms are looking to harness new sources of insight that can allow them to identify and exploit emerging market and industry opportunities. But many organizations are saddled with a disconnected sprawl of legacy systems that are unable to...
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...
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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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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.
