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Institutional Trading of Digital Assets to Lead the Hot Topics at A-Team’s TradingTech Summit London
Following a hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, A-Team’s TradingTech Summit is back in London this February for the 11th time, and will bring together trading technology professionals from across the industry, to discuss how firms are innovating in today’s cloud and digital based environment to create flexible and scalable trading platforms. A wide range...
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Institutional Trading of Digital Assets to Lead the Hot Topics at A-Team’s TradingTech Summit London
Following a hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, A-Team’s TradingTech Summit is back in London this February for the 11th time, and will bring together trading technology professionals from across the industry, to discuss how firms are innovating in today’s cloud and digital based environment to create flexible and scalable trading platforms. A wide range...
TNS Offers Clients Relocation Service to New LSEG Data Centre
Trading infrastructure and connectivity provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) will offer seamless relocation to clients who wish to access the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data centre facility, when it relocates from Earl Street in the City of London to Telehouse Docklands later this year. TNS has secured infrastructure capacity in the new facility...
MDX Technology Secures Private Investment to Drive Business Expansion Plans
Data collaboration technology vendor MDX Technology (MDXT) has secured “significant investment” from a group of private backers, including Daniel Simpson and Emanuel Mond, co-founders of Cadis (now IHS Markit EDM) and Graham Denyer, ex CTO of IHS Markit EDM. The funding – an undisclosed amount – will accelerate the firm’s business development plans and new...
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Horizon Software Partners with Business France to Expand in Poland
Electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology provider Horizon Software has collaborated with Business France Poland, part of a French national agency that supports the international development of the French economy, to expand the company’s services in the region. Through the collaboration, the company aims for its technology to be deployed on a larger scale, to…
Peel Hunt Renews with ION Fidessa as Long-Term Partner to Grow its Equity Market Business
ION Markets, the global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has announced that broker and market maker Peel Hunt has selected ION as a long-term partner to grow its equity market making business in European markets, using ION’s Fidessa Trading Platform. Peel Hunt provides execution services across global markets, and…
Avelacom Launches JPX Connectivity Solutions
Avelacom, a low latency connectivity and infrastructure provider, has launched colocation and network services with Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and has become one of the exchange’s arrownet-Global Partner Network vendors. Avelacom has been increasing its presence in Tokyo over the past four years, by opening a branch office in Tokyo, operating points-of-presence (PoPs) in several…
Trading Technologies Invests $6.35 Million in KRM22, as Todd Takes the Reins
Trading Technologies, the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions company recently acquired by 7RIDGE, has confirmed that it has invested $6.35 million in risk management technology company KRM22, and entered into a distribution agreement to market and distribute KRM22 risk management products. The investment and distribution agreement represent the first stage of cooperation between TT…
ION Links Up with Trumid for Credit Markets eTrading
Trading solutions vendor ION Markets has upgraded its connectivity to Trumid, an electronic bond trading platform, to support Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client negotiation protocol, through the ION Credit solution. The upgrade, which builds on previous versions of Trumid supporting axe contribution and post-trade functionalities, now provides access to diverse market data sources, automation…
FTX US Selects Eventus for Crypto Surveillance
US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange FTX US has selected Eventus Systems to conduct trade surveillance and risk monitoring on its cryptocurrency futures and options exchange and clearinghouse. FTX US Derivatives plans to leverage the alert coverage, trade practice investigation tools, and data tagging provided by Eventus’ Validus platform to monitor its listed derivatives market. In addition, FTX…
Bloomberg and Acadia Introduce Pre-Trade SIMM Calculations
Bloomberg and Acadia, specialists in risk management, have integrated Bloomberg’s Multi Asset Risk System (MARS) with Acadia’s IMEM (Initial Margin Exposure Manager) module. The integration will provide Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) pre-trade analytics, and will support Phase 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rule (UMR) obligations, part of the longstanding initial margin rule framework created…
Quant Insight and Symphony Partner to Provide Macro Analytics Insights
Quantitative analytics vendor Quant Insight (Qi) has partnered with Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, to offer macro-based insights to Symphony’s global financial community. Qi’s Retina (Real time Notifications and Alerts) will sit on the Symphony platform and push macro-based insights into Symphony chat rooms in real time. With Retina, Symphony users will be…
FactSet Adds Fixed Income Trading Capabilities to Portware
FactSet, the global provider of financial information and analytical applications, has launched a suite of fixed income trading capabilities for Portware, its execution management system (EMS) best known for electronic trading and automation in listed assets and FX. With the introduction of fixed income trading, Portware now enables clients to trade more efficiently across more…
ED&F Man Deploys TS Imagine for Risk and Margin Management
ED&F Man Capital Markets has deployed TS Imagine’s real-time risk, compliance and margin platform, to manage initial and variation margin risk for SPAN and VaR based methodologies across its futures and options trading and clearing business, replacing its legacy systems with TS Imagine’s fully-hosted, SaaS solution for high-volume, real-time analytics on cross-asset exchange-based and OTC…
BMLL Launches Level 3 Futures Data Service
Data and analytics vendor BMLL has expanded its Level 3 data set with full-depth order book data from CME, Eurex and ICE. The service covers all major futures asset classes, including equities, fixed income, short-term interest rates, commodities, cryptocurrencies and FX. The new data sets will provide clients with the ability to do complex, Level…
Avelacom Broadens Partnership with Singapore Exchange and Reduces Latencies
Low-latency connectivity and infrastructure provider Avelacom has broadened its partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX), adding a colocation capability. Avelacom’s new server rack will be situated next to SGX’s core matching engine, providing round-trip network latency of less than 20 microseconds, which Avelacom claims is the fastest in the market. Avelacom has partnered with SGX since…
CQG Launches New Suite of Execution Technologies
Chicago-based trading solutions vendor CQG has launched a new suite of execution technologies designed to give market participants new tools to achieve greater efficiencies and optimal trade execution, particularly for large or complex order types. The new suite builds upon software assets CQG acquired from Blue Trading Systems in June 2020, and leverages CQG’s internally-developed…
TNS Strengthens Backbone for European Equities Exchanges
TNS, the financial markets infrastructure provider, has invested in strengthening its European backbone and data solutions, offering ultra-low latency TNS Layer 1 in-datacentre architecture, and expanded market data from all major European equities exchanges. The company has also added Wiener Boerse AG, which operates the stock exchanges in Vienna and Prague, to its market data…
MayStreet Adds High Performance Query API to Market Data Lake
New York-based market data technology vendor MayStreet has launched a High Performance Query (HPQ) API to its Market Data Lake, a cloud-based repository of global, cross-asset exchange data, to complement its existing APIs and web-based Analytics Workbench. The HPQ API enables clients to instantly stream near real-time and historical full-depth data at distinct time intervals…
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Brad Small Joins Broadway as Head of Product
Front-office solutions provider Broadway has appointed Brad Small as Head of Product. Small joins the Executive Team and will steer the product vision, planning, strategies and projects for Broadway’s software solutions. He arrives with over 20 years of financial services industry experience, having previously held senior roles at ING, National Australia Bank, JP Morgan, Bear…
Horizon Appoints Sebastien Catalan to Head Global Pre-Sales
Electronic trading solutions provider Horizon Software has hired Sebastien Cathelin as Global Head of Presales, to help to grow Horizon’s global client base and expand Horizon’s trading services footprint in the APAC, EMEA and US regions. Cathelin brings a deep understanding of both market making and algorithmic trading, having started his career on the trading…
Exegy Adds Ross, Singer to Sales Leadership Team Post-Vela Merger
Exegy has named Devry Ross as Global Head of Partners and Jared Singer as Head of Sales – Americas as it builds out its global sales organisations following its merger with Vela. Ross joins from Bizagi where she was Director of Partners and Alliances – North America. Prior to joining Bizagi, she was Strategic Partner…
Broadway Bolsters Leadership Team with Three Key Promotions
Front-office solutions provider Broadway Technology has expanded its leadership team by promoting three long-serving members of staff into key roles. Eitan Reich has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer, Misha Weinberg as VP of Engineering, and Dario Gatta as Chief Information Officer. Reich will drive Broadway’s overall technology vision, strategy and innovation roadmap. Weinberg will…
Vela’s Nayer Departs Following Exegy Purchase
Following its merger with Vela Trading Systems in May, Exegy has made a number of changes to its leadership team. Former Vela CEO Jen Nayer, who has served as Chief Integration Officer since the merger, is leaving the company to pursue other interests. Exegy Chief Financial Officer Krista Steward takes over as CIO; Dave Foster…
VoxSmart Expands APAC Operations with Office in New Zealand
Communications surveillance specialist VoxSmart has opened a new office in Queenstown, New Zealand, expanding its presence in the APAC region where it already maintains offices in Singapore and Melbourne. The new office will be headed by VoxSmart COO, Adrienne Muir, a native New Zealander. The expansion marks a period of rapid growth for VoxSmart, following…
LedgerEdge Hires Dom Holland to Drive US Business Development
Emerging corporate bond trading platform LedgerEdge has appointed Dom Holland to the role of Business Development for the US, reporting to Michelle Neal, US CEO. Holland’s appointment will support the US expansion of the company, which is rolling out a global corporate bond trading platform built on distributed ledger technology (DLT). Holland was previously Head…
Iress Creates API Data and Trading Solutions Team
Trading technology provider Iress has launched a dedicated API Data and Trading Solutions team to support demand for the company’s market data and infrastructure solutions. The company says the development marks the completion of the full integration of the QuantHouse business, which it acquired in May 2019. The new team will support clients using Iress’s…
LiquidNet Hires Nicholas Stephan to Head Fixed Income Product, Services and Dealer Relations
Liquidnet, the global institutional investment network, has hired Nicholas Stephan as Global Head of Fixed Income Product, Services and Dealer Relations, based in New York. The appointment is the latest in a series of hires in EMEA and the Americas that has significantly increased the size and expertise of the fixed income team since Liquidnet’s…
Adaptive Appoints Fergus Keenan as Chief Strategy Officer
Specialist global electronic trading consultancy Adaptive Financial Consulting, has appointed Fergus Keenan as its Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for implementing the firm’s overarching business vision and strategy. Based in New York, Keenan will be help to drive Adaptive’s global growth as the business expands its client base, delivering proprietary trading solutions across asset classes for…
USAM Announces New Clients, New Staff and New Website
USAM, the New York-based provider of integrated sales, marketing, and advisory services to growth-stage financial technology companies, has added five new clients to its roster: Urvin.ai, TransFICC, MAP Digital, eLoomina and Bodo.ai. The company has also recruited five new members of staff, across operations, sales and marketing and data science/programming, and has launched a new…
Macrobond Appoints Larry Nieman as North America Business Development Director
Macrobond Financial, a provider of economic and financial data and analytics, has appointed Larry Neiman as Director of Business Development, effective 1 November. Neiman, who joins Macrobond after 21 years at Haver Analytics, a provider of financial and economic data and analytic tools, where he most recently served as regional account manager, will be responsible…
Sentieo Doubles Staff in London and Expands Across EMEA
Research platform provider Sentieo has doubled the size of its team in London as it expands to service 50 clients in the EMEA region, with the addition of a director of UX design, a director of product, and three sales and client success executives. The company expects to double the sales team again over the…
Neptune Appoints John Robinson as CEO
Neptune Networks, a pre-trade market utility for fixed income, has appointed John Robinson as CEO. Robinson, who has worked with Neptune as a senior consultant since November 2020, takes the helm from Interim CEO, Byron Cooper-Fogarty, who is remaining with Neptune and will form part of the Management Team as COO. Robinson has over 34…
Archax Launches Blockchain-Based Post-Trade Infrastructure Subsidiary Montis Digital, with Watkins as CEO, Lester as Chairman
Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange, has created a new subsidiary, Montis Digital, to launch a blockchain-based post-trade infrastructure for tokenised assets, such as digital securities and security tokens. Montis will be led by CEO Martin Watkins, previously head of the exchanges and financial markets infrastructure practice at EY, and senior executive at AtosEuronext,…
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Recorded Webinar: Opportunities of new approaches to electronic trading
Challenged by legacy systems, less than ideal workflows and high costs, front-office trading teams lack the ability to adapt to clients’ evolving needs around integration, speed and multi-asset capabilities. They are also challenged by a capital markets environment characterised by legacy systems, shrinking margins and increased regulatory scrutiny. While these problems cause considerable friction in…
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RegTech Summit APAC
Now in its 2nd year, the RegTech Summit APAC will bring together the regtech ecosystem to explore how capital markets in the APAC region can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change. With more opportunities than ever before for RegTech to add value, now is the time to invest for the future. Join us to hear from leading RegTech practitioners and innovators who will share insights into how they are tackling the challenges of adopting and implementing regtech and how to advance your RegTech strategy.
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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…
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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...
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...
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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
We are excited to announce that the call for entry/nomination phase is now OPEN! 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.
