Surveillance
Market Cops Dust for Fingerprints in Modern Spoofing Cases
Data analytics are now being used to track manipulative trading, increasingly in real time.
Cinnober Acquires Surveillance Vendor Ancoa Software Out of Administration
UK-based surveillance technology provider bought out of administration after failing to secure necessary funding.
Commodity Firms Tighten Up on Spoofing
With increased high-frequency trading in commodities markets likely to increase instances of “spoofing,” the CFTC has said it will be monitoring markets more avidly for instances of spoofing and other forms of market manipulation. Selwyn Parker reports…
March 2017: Somebody’s Watching You
The raft of upcoming regulations has the industry focused on compliance. But to demonstrate compliance, you first need visibility and good data management.
Not Your Granddad’s Surveillance
For years, sophisticated data monitoring and analytics have been a key component of developing trading strategies. Now, as Joanne Faulkner discovers, firms are taking approaches first developed for use by traders and turning the tables, and are using…
Politicians and Tech Startups: A Match Made in Westminster
John matches up UK political party leaders with their most likely financial technology startups.
MarketAxess Adds Ancoa Market Surveillance for its Fixed-Income Platform
Market abuse surveillance capabilities deployed on European fixed-income multilateral trading facility.
PDQ ATS Turns to Eventus for Surveillance
PDQ Enterprise's CEO discusses why the ATS provider went with Eventus, while Eventus' CEO talks about how the vendor plans to grow after signing on PDQ, in addition to landing UBS in March.
Nasdaq, Digital Reasoning Partner to Enhance Market Surveillance Tools
Collaboration will see integration of Nasdaq Smarts surveillance, Digital Reasoning compliance monitoring solutions.
Orc Taps OneTick Data Solution for Trade Regulation Compliance, Surveillance
The alliance will see Orc incorporate OneMarketData's OneTick tick data management solution into its offerings.
When Bubbles Burst, Remember the Tulips
Could big data analytics have prevented Tulip mania?
New Spinoff Eventus Systems Launches Risk & Compliance Platform
Eventus was spun out of RGM Advisors.
OneMarketData Bows Surveillance Tool for Brokers, Market Makers
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData will this week launch a new market surveillance tool, dubbed OneTick Market Surveillance, to enable executing brokers and market makers to detect market abuse and meet regulatory…
Mexico's BMV to Use Nasdaq Smarts for Market Surveillance
Smarts will help monitor predatory HFT practices
Communication Surveillance: A Daunting Challenge
Marina Daras talks to banks and vendors to see how they approach communication surveillance, and what kind of technology can be deployed to help them with this challenge.
Fonetic Launches Multi-Trade Search and Reconstruction Tool
New addition will provide customizable filtering for compliance
FINRA Begins Migration of Market Surveillance Apps to Amazon Cloud, Adopts Big Data Tech
US financial industry regulator FINRA is migrating all of its market surveillance platforms into the Amazon Web Services cloud, to enable the regulator to more efficiently store and process data, in a move that could deliver an annual cost saving of 40…
Nasdaq Breaks New Ground with FX Surveillance Module
Nasdaq OMX has announced the release of a surveillance platform specifically designed to monitor trading activity in foreign-exchange (FX) markets, named Smarts FX Trade Surveillance.
Atlas, NSX Sign MOU For Digital Currency Oversight
Atlas and Jersey City, N.J.-based National Stock Exchange (NSX) have signed a memorandum of understanding to make the alternative trading system (ATS), which facilitates trading in Bitcoin, Litecoin, and digital currency options, the first of its kind to…
Nasdaq Partners Catelas for Comms Surveillance
Nasdaq OMX will integrate technology from surveillance vendor Catelas with its Smarts Broker platform, offering users the ability to monitor communications in a relational and visualized manner.
Market Surveillance special report
December 2013 - sponsored by: Apama, Nasdaq OMX, Nice Actimize
Has PRISM Changed Perceptions of Cloud Security on Wall Street?
Anthony wonders if CIOs are a bit more concerned about the security of their data after the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks, and the resulting spotlight shined on the PRISM and Tempora internet surveillance programs, first reported by The Guardian…
Two New Brazilian Markets to Surveil with Nasdaq Solution
Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa (BVMF) has gone live with Nasdaq OMX’s Smarts Integrity market surveillance platform across commodities and futures.