Exchanges & Trading Venues
Democratising market data in a changing era
CME Group explores why demand for instant, simpler data is driving direct access to exchanges via cloud technology
This Week: Microsoft/CaixaBank, Bloomberg, Cboe/Morningstar & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Deutsche Bank/FinLync, State Street/Paxos, Glue42/AllianceBernstein & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
In the world of financial data, context—not content—is the new king
For years, the mantra of the market data world has been ‘content is king.’ But with trading strategies now more dependent on being able to see the big picture, the value of context could quickly overtake the data itself.
This Week: Goldman Sachs, MSCI/MarketAxess, Cboe/ErisX, & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
This Week: Ice, SS&C/Morningstar, Deutsche Börse/DataBP, RBC & More
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Nasdaq’s Dague on exchange cloud strategy
Bill Dague, head of alternative data at Nasdaq, joins the podcast to discuss the forces driving exchanges to the cloud.
This Week: Ice, FCA, HSBC, UBS & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
House bill looks to back up SEC market data efforts
Congress is stepping into the US equity market data debate as the DC Circuit Court of Appeals considers dismissing the SEC’s initiatives.
Shaking things up in the dark: Vendors build new tools for dark-pool trading in Asia-Pacific
New conditional order venues could bring more liquidity and sophistication to dark pool trading in the region.
In the race to institutionalize crypto, participants eye familiar tech ‘wrappers’ for new assets
Despite the development of digital assets overall, and interest in cryptocurrencies remaining strong among individual investors and niche firms, widespread institutional adoption remains muted. Wei-Shen Wong looks at the tools being developed to support…
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: The inexorable march of exchange data fees
Following IEX’s decision to begin charging nominal fees for its market data, Memx is the last one standing not yet charging for data. Max asks whether it will follow suit, or whether any exchange will be brave enough to take a stance on unpopular data…
FactSet EMS adds fixed-income trading capabilities
Portware is already integrated with fixed-income electronic trading platform Trumid, as well as Tradeweb, MarketAxess, and Bloomberg.
Waters Wrap: Nasdaq, Quandl and the next phase of the alt data craze
Anthony looks at how Nasdaq's Quandl strategy ties into other trends spreading through the market.
This Week: SmartStream, LSEG/Finbourne, FactSet/Cobalt, DTCC, BNP Paribas, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Miax preps ‘Virtual Trading Floor’ of data tools to grow investors, market-makers
The options exchange operator hopes to make it easier for participants to translate data into context and insight, and to broaden participation from new market sectors.
Firms can't afford to miss out on digital assets, says SBI Digital Markets
Waters Wavelength Podcast Interview Series: Kris Hopkins, now head of capital markets at SBI Digital Markets, discusses the opportunities for capital markets firms in the digital asset space.
Banks and HFTs team up to solve exchange outage dilemma
There are hopes that a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ between industry participants can break the first-mover disadvantage for liquidity providers.
What can HKEx’s Synapse learn from watching ASX’s game of Chess?
HKEx is looking to leverage smart contracts for its Synapse platform. Sell-side participants are generally positive as to the reasoning behind the build, but observers warn the ambitious project still has challenges to overcome.
Despite client concerns, LSE’s new Sedol fees take hold
Under the new fee policy, some of the largest users of the LSE’s identifier codes could see their Sedol spend more than double, though the exchange says the “vast majority” of clients will see no increase.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Asian exchanges
Keiren Harris, a strategy-based market data consultant and founder of DataCompliance, joins the podcast to talk about exchanges in Asia and their data strategies.
This week: Genesis, SmartStream, MarketAxess, Allianz GI, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage should the exchange move its data center to Italy.
As ASX preps Chess replacement testing phase, other data & cloud projects progress
Testing on the new DLT-based platform will begin in July. The Aussie exchange is also making progress on its DataSphere project and has addressed ASX Trade after an outage last year, according to the company’s CEO.