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TradingTech Insight Q&A: Driving Technology Innovation in Fixed Income
With Edoardo Pacenti, Head of Trading Tools for Fixed Income at ION Markets. In the last decade, the global fixed income markets have been going through a steady process of transformation, with technology playing an ever more important role. Trading is slowly becoming more automated, new venues are proliferating, and both market participants and vendors...
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TradingTech Insight Q&A: Driving Technology Innovation in Fixed Income
With Edoardo Pacenti, Head of Trading Tools for Fixed Income at ION Markets. In the last decade, the global fixed income markets have been going through a steady process of transformation, with technology playing an ever more important role. Trading is slowly becoming more automated, new venues are proliferating, and both market participants and vendors...
When Being Digital is No Longer Enough to be Different – A New Take on Build vs. Buy
By Matt Barrett, CEO, Adaptive Financial Consulting. Technology has transformed financial services over the past decade – dramatically increasing efficiencies, simplifying some workflows and improving accessibility – benefiting everyone from large institutions to fintech start-ups. In this constant race to embrace technology, digitalisation has gone from being a ‘nice to have’ to becoming ubiquitous –...
Symphony’s Cloud9 Acquisition Lays Path for Combining Voice Communications with Natural Language Processing
Infrastructure and technology platform provider Symphony’s recent acquisition of electronic communication specialist Cloud9 Technologies for an undisclosed sum is aimed at allowing the combined entity to offer new services and solutions combining trader voice with natural language processing (NLP) and automation. The company believes this approach will accelerate trade flows, improve transactional accuracy, and extend...
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Chronicle Software & Reactive Markets Partner to Provide Access to FX & Crypto Liquidity
High-performance trading technology vendors Chronicle Software and Reactive Markets have announced a partnership that will provide ultra-low latency access to multiple FX and digital assets liquidity pools via a single API. The partnership provides out-of-the-box integration between Chronicle FIX and Switchboard, Reactive’s institutional trading network, and will provide simplified access to additional pools of FX…
SmartStream Partners with Acadia to Automate Collateral Interest Payments
Financial transaction solutions vendor SmartStream has partnered with risk management services provider Acadia to automate the processing and calculation of interest statements for SmartStream’s customers and their counterparties. Acadia’s Margin Manager platform will work alongside SmartStream’s TLM Collateral Management solution, to dispatch interest statements, reconcile, and resolve issues with counterparties in a standardised messaging format,…
Murex Collaborates with Gulf Bank to Launch MX.3 Treasury Management System
Paris-based technology vendor Murex has launched the MX.3 treasury management platform with Gulf Bank of Kuwait, to allow the bank to develop and automate its treasury and capital markets systems, and to enable seamless workflow across front-to-back-to-risk management and processing. The platform will enable Gulf Bank’s Treasury Department to benefit from synergies in connected functions,…
Chronicle FIX Engine Deployed at ‘Leading North American Stock Exchange’
Low-latency technology solutions vendor Chronicle Software has deployed its FIX engine at a leading North American stock exchange, to provide low-latency connectivity to the exchange’s clients. The unidentified exchange cited Chronicle’s superior engine performance, microsecond latency and differentiated commercial model as reasons for working with the vendor. As part of the deal, the exchange has…
Santander Bank Polska Deploys Horizon for Market Making on Warsaw Stock Exchange
Santander Bank Polska, one of the largest financial institutions in Poland, has deployed Horizon Software for its market-making activities on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). The partnership gives Santander the tools and technology for both quoting and hedging, and covers a range of asset classes, including equities, equity futures and index futures on the WSE….
GoDoFX Selects Integral MarginFX to Support Growth of FX and CFD Business
FX technology provider Integral has been chosen by fledgling UAE-based retail brokerage GoDoFX, to support the growth of its FX and CFD business in the region. GoDoFX, founded earlier this year, selected Integral for its institutional-grade technology, which provides a high degree of customisation around trading workflows, seamless connection to the market through MT4, and…
TORA Integrates Glimpse Fixed Income Data Sharing Platform
Cloud-based front-to-back office technology provider TORA, has integrated the Glimpse Markets data sharing platform for fixed income into its order and execution management system (OEMS), enabling TORA’s OEMS users to seamlessly view Glimpse’s aggregated buy-side execution data at point of trade. The integration aims to give the buy-side more control and visibility. Clients can also…
MEMX Selects Beeks for Latency Monitoring of New Exchange
Members Exchange (MEMX), an emerging US equities exchange, has selected Beeks, a UK-based trading connectivity and infrastructure specialist, for latency monitoring, following a competitive review of packet capture, latency and analytics solutions. As a new technology-driven stock exchange, MEMX had no legacy systems to integrate and no pre-conceived bias towards any particular solution. During the…
GroupAma Successfully Executes First Trade on Wave Lab’s eLISA OEMS
Credit execution solution startup Wave Labs has successfully executed the first live trade on eLISA, its Electronic Liquidity Seeking Application, with Groupama Asset Management, in coordination with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. eLiSA is a fixed income order and execution management system (OEMS) that aims to empower true holders of fixed income…
Pico Creates Chinese Entity in Shanghai to Strengthen Its APAC Presence
Trading technology provider Pico has extended the reach of its global offering with the formation of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) in China, British Commercial Pico (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd. Located within proximity to the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) data centre, and supported by local engineering and data centre management expertise, the new enterprise…
MasterLink Selects SIGTech to Drive Systematic Trading in US, Asian Equities
MasterLink Securities, one of Taiwan’s two leading securities dealers, has selected quant trading platform SIGTech to accelerate research and trading for its North American and Asian equities business. SIGTech will facilitate the onboarding and normalising of new datasets to help build and launch new systematic trading strategies for the firm. Launched in 2019, SIGTech is…
KeyBank Goes Live with SmartStream’s Cloud Collateral Management Solution
US-based KeyBank has deployed transaction management solutions vendor SmartStream Technologies’ TLM Collateral Management OnDemand solution to handle margining for its cleared and non-cleared OTC derivatives, repos and securities lending business. The cloud-based solution is now live and is helping to streamline efficiencies within KeyBank’s collateral management operations, handling data capture, validation, calculation and processing. The…
Broadridge Leverages Amazon Managed Blockchain for Private Market Hub Platform
Broadridge Financial Solutions, collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched the latest evolution of its Private Market Hub platform, in what the company claims to be the industry’s first deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market. Broadridge Private Market Hub is a global, multi-jurisdictional and cloud-native platform for private equity workflow that…
FlexTrade Integrates BMLL Data Feed and Analytics into FlexTrader EMS
OEMS vendor FlexTrade Systems has integrated data and analytics from BMLL Technologies into its FlexTrader EMS, giving clients the ability to access data and enriched pre- and post-trade analytics from within the FlexTrader EMS blotter. The BMLL Data Feed, which is pre-computed from granular, Level 3 order book data, is designed to provide market participants…
MayStreet Increases Asia-Pacific Coverage with 19 New Exchange Feeds
Market data technology and content provider MayStreet has added 19 new market feeds in the Asia-Pacific region to Market Data Lake, the company’s market data repository. The new content includes real-time and historical consolidated, top-of-book and full depth-of-book data from the leading equity, derivatives, commodity and fixed income exchanges in the region, and largely completes…
Latest people
Bruce Boytim Joins Broadway Technology as COO
Following its recent appointment of Michael Chin as CEO, front-office solutions vendor Broadway Technology has named industry veteran Bruce Boytim as Chief Operating Officer, to drive global strategy, go-to-market activities and client success as Broadway continues to evolve its offerings and expand its global footprint. Boytim’s experience in the financial technology space includes roles as…
Exberry Appoints Guy Melamed as CEO
Exchange infrastructure and matching engine provider Exberry has appointed Guy Melamed as CEO, as it looks to accelerate its growth and enter new marketplaces with its cloud-native technology, designed as a ‘Marketplace-as-a-Service’ solution. Exberry signed up its first customer, the London Derivatives Exchange, following its launch last year. Melamed previously held leadership roles at Finova…
KX Bolsters FX Sales Team with Four New Hires
KX has strengthened its global sales team with four new hires for its FX solutions business. The move – part of a broader expansion of its sales force under the leadership of new chief revenue officer Alan Coad – comes in response to heightened demand for FX technology and data solutions from both buy and…
Archax Taps Ford to Lead Institutional Sales
Archax, the FCA regulated digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London, has appointed Malcolm Ford to lead its institutional sales activities in the run up to launch. Ford has over 20 years of experience in the institutional capital markets space, having worked for CMC Markets, Instinet, KCG, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole Cheuvreux….
Ilisa Gruber Joins Luminex to Build US Presence
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue delivering low-cost block executions, has hired Ilisa Gruber as sales and relationship manager. Based in Chicago, Gruber will oversee Luminex’s relationships with top clients among its more than 200 buy-side, institutional investors. She will be responsible for increasing engagement with existing clients as well as managing the firm’s…
Appital Appoints New Non-Exec Directors
Equity capital marketplace Appital has appointed Greg Bennett and Stephane Carty as non-executive directors, following the recent appointment of Brian Guckian and Philipp Eberle to the firm’s management team. Bennett, previously Head of Capital Markets for EMEA and the Americas for Fidelity International, also brings sell side expertise as former Partner and Managing Director in…
BSO Appoints Anna Flach as Global Marketing Director
Telecoms operator and infrastructure provider BSO has appointed Anna Flach as Global Marketing Director. As a member of the management team, she will be responsible for defining and executing BSO’s marketing and communications strategy, based in London and reporting to Chief Commercial Officer Fraser Bell. Flach joins BSO from the world of FinTech, where she…
Torstone Technology Appoints David Pearson to Product Team
Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced the appointment of David Pearson, who will be joining Torstone’s product team, based at the firm’s London headquarters.  He joins Torstone from Genesis Global, where he was responsible for post-trade workflow solutions. Prior to that, Pearson spent twenty-five years at Fidessa, initially working…
Tourmaline Receives Investment, Hires New Executives
Tourmaline Partners, a global outsourced trading solutions firms, has received a majority investment from Copley Equity Partners, a private investment firm that focuses on established businesses with significant growth prospects. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but Tourmaline is projected to trade $300 billion notionally in equities in 2020, in a notable validation of the…
Point Nine Expands to Luxembourg with Paul Goes
Point Nine, a post-trade processing and regulatory reporting service provider, is expanding its global presence by forming a team in Luxembourg. The team will be headed by Paul Goes as its Business Development Manager, based in Luxembourg since April 2020. Andreas Roussos, Point Nine Director, says, “We’re excited Paul Goes has joined our team and are confident his extensive experience in the Luxembourg Financial Services…
genesis Hires Nick Kolba as Head of Platform
Capital markets software firm genesis has appointed Nick Kolba as Global Head of Platform. Co-Founder and Chair of the FDC3 program at the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), Kolba has 20 years of experience including as Chief Technology and Product Officer at OpenFin and, prior to that, as a Technology Director at Thomson Reuters, where he…
Finantix Appoints Albert Iselin Executive Director, EMEA
Finantix, technology provider to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, has appointed Albert Iselin to the role of Executive Director for EMEA, further widening his remit and responsibilities. His team includes new hire Aurelia Philippoz who joins the Swiss team as Inside Sales and Marketing Executive. Based in Switzerland, Iselin will continue to report to Finantix…
André Helfenstein Joins the Board of Directors of SIX
Shareholders at SIX’s AGM yesterday elected André Helfenstein to the Board of Directors. He becomes the representative of Credit Suisse with immediate effect, replacing Thomas Gottstein. The 53-year-old Swiss and British citizen is CEO of Credit Suisse (Switzerland) and a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group, responsible for the bank’s entire Swiss…
BTON Financial Makes Two Strategic Hires
BTON Financial, an automated outsourced trading desk for asset managers, has appointed txo new strategic hires to meet the growing demand for its services. Charles Phan, an experienced hedge fund CTO, quant strategist and trader joins as Chief Technology Officer to drive the firm’s technology strategy and delivery; while Caroline Holmes, a regulatory expert and…
OpenFin Hires Adrian Crockett as Chief Product Officer
OpenFin, an operating system (OS) provider deploying around 1,200 desktop applications to both buy and sell-side firm, has hired Adrian Crockett as Chief Product Officer. Crockett is the co-founder and former CEO of Pellucid Analytics, an integrated platform that streamlines the creation of investment banking pitch books. Prior to that, Crockett headed investment banking strats…
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Upcoming Webinar: The evolution of market surveillance across sell-side and buy-side firms
Date: 21 September 2021 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Market surveillance is crucial, and in many cases a regulatory requirement, to ensuring orderly securities markets and sustaining confidence in trading. It can be breached and has become increasingly complex in the wake of the Covid pandemic, Brexit, and…
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TradingTech Summit Virtual
TradingTech Summit (TTS) Virtual will look at how trading technology operations can capitalise on recent disruption and leverage technology to find efficiencies in the new normal environment. The crisis has highlighted that the future is digital and cloud based, and the ability to innovate faster and at scale has become critical. As we move into recovery and ‘business as usual’, what changes and technology innovations should the industry adopt to simplify operations and to support speed, agility and flexibility in trading operations.
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Trading Regulations Handbook 2021
In these unprecedented times, a carefully crafted trading infrastructure is crucial for capital markets participants. Yet, the impact of trading regulations on infrastructure can be difficult to manage. The Trading Regulations Handbook 2021 can help. It provides all the essentials you need to know about regulations impacting trading operations, data and technology. A-Team Group’s Trading…
Top White Papers
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...
Mitigating Compliance Risk by Matching Application Usage to Data Licensing Obligations
As financial institutions consume more market data from more sources than ever before, the task of administering external data services is growing both in complexity and scale. At the same time, data services are increasingly consumed by applications rather than humans, and these applications often consume more data than humans and produce derived data. As...
Market Data Invoice and Inventory Managed Services
Financial institutions are subscribing to an ever-growing list of information services in their efforts to keep abreast of increasingly complex global markets. This is adding to the burden of managing relationships with existing data vendors, whose licensing agreements and invoices are also growing in complexity. Firms’ appetite for cloud-delivered services and the trend toward working...
Events and webinars
RegTech Summit New York City
Now in its 5th year, the RegTech Summit in NYC explores how the North American financial services industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Find out moreTradingTech Summit Virtual
TradingTech Summit (TTS) Virtual will look at how trading technology operations can capitalise on recent disruption and leverage technology to find efficiencies in the new normal environment. The crisis has highlighted that the future is digital and cloud based, and the ability to innovate faster and at scale has become critical. As we move into recovery and ‘business as usual’, what changes and technology innovations should the industry adopt to simplify operations and to support speed, agility and flexibility in trading operations.
Find out moreRegTech Summit London
Now in its 6th year, the RegTech Summit in London explores how the European financial services industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
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Awards
RegTech Insight Awards Europe
We are delighted to announce the winners of The RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2021. These awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and highlight RegTech solutions that throughout the year have successfully improved firms’ ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry.
