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Boylan Leaves Goldman Sachs for Biz Dev Role at Dash Financial
Bob Boylan joins Dash Financial from Goldman Sachs, where he most recently led the bank's electronic trading hedge fund sales team, following several years as head of its broker-dealer and international electronic institutional sales group.
Liquidnet Unveils Tool to Help Capture Post-Block Event Opportunities
The offering adds an additional 19% of volume to the original block execution and will absorb 9 out of every 10 blocks that appear in the minute following the initial block, according to Liquidnet.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 73: The UK Election, Brexit & Fintechs; The Bloomberg Point-Port Integration
An examination of what the UK election and eventual Brexit negotiations could mean for London's fintech space followed by a discussion of Bloomberg's Point-Port integration.
FlexTrade Builds Augmented Reality Trading Application
FlexAR is set to enhance the trading experience, using Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Hanweck Integrates Historical Data, Analytics
By integrating its products, Hanweck will be able to offer a wider breadth of real-time and historical data to Volera clients.
Acadian Asset Management Explores Asset Forecasting with Microsoft Bing
The US firm will experiment with Bing’s data, aiming to develop new ways of predicting asset prices.
Giancarlo Sets New Course for CFTC That Includes Focus on FinTech Firms
In addition to setting a plan to foster fintech innovation, he also laid out a new strategy to reduce the Commission's regulatory footprint, much to the relief of those in attendance at the FIA Boca conference.
Mifid II's Impact on Fixed-Income Trading Sharpens
From trade reporting to best execution requirements, the fixed-income market is going to change in 2018...but what that change will look like is still to be determined.
Exegy Adds IEX Level 1 Data
Exegy advances its data vendor aspirations by adding an "essential" component to the creation of a consolidated US National Best Bid and Offer.
MDX Broadens Data Distribution With MDXT Connect V4
The new version of the vendor's data distribution platform allows users to distribute and receive data over the internet and mobile apps, and to capture data from Thomson Reuters' Enterprise Platform.
ADVFN Adds TradeIt In-App Trading to Mobile Data Apps
The integration will allow ADVFN clients to trade with their brokers directly from the vendor's mobile app.
MTS Markets Unveils BondVision US Trading Platform
Brokers can broaden their Euro government bond offerings to the buy side.
Deutsche Bank Brings AxiomSL's Regulatory Platform to the US
Deutsche Bank also deployed the platform in the Asia-Pacific region.