Trading Tech
Virtu Financial Buys KCG
In a $1.4 billion deal, the two HFT firms will merge into a market-making and agency execution company.
Metori Taps QuantHouse for Trading Portfolio Automation
Newly founded asset management firm Metori has selected QuantHouse’s QuantFactory solution to automate its trading portfolio.
FlexTrade Builds Augmented Reality Trading Application
FlexAR is set to enhance the trading experience, using Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset.
SWIFT Improves Bankers World Online Navigation, Search
Officials say the redesign will help SWIFT better understand and respond to industry challenges by building more features into its tools in future.
Infront, Symphony Strengthen Ties with App Access
Symphony users can now access the Infront Analytics app free of charge
Web Financial, Selerity Ally to Incorporate Unstructured Data into ‘Personalized’ Client Solutions
Web Financial's platform will allow users to integrate Selerity's tools, allowing them to create customized views of information that leverage unstructured data.
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.
Focusing on Smaller Areas Can Make Cybersecurity More Effective
As threats spread, cybersecurity becomes a matter of prioritizing areas that are the most vulnerable.
Wind of Change Disperses Cloud Data Doubts
Banks are warming to the benefits of cloud computing for market and enterprise data storage and resource-intensive calculation and testing requirements. But, as Joanne Faulkner discovers, there are still challenges that must be overcome before cloud can…
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…
From Opening Weekend to Market Open: Turning Movies into Market Data
A movie’s opening weekend is a reliable indicator of how it will perform over the length of its release. But what date a studio picks for the opening weekend—and whether that date changes before release—can also impact its revenues, and its parent studio…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 65: Public Cloud Providers Battle for Dominance, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Dan and Anthony talk about Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft all battling for market share in the public cloud space.
Artificial Intelligence: Job Killer or Human Augmenter?
At the North American Trading Architecture Summit in New York, artificial intelligence came under the spotlight with industry participants discussing the extent to which it might replace humans across the capital markets.
Legacies Updated: Why Legacy Infrastructure Can Stay
Legacy infrastructure need not be a stumbling block to innovation if steps are taken to leverage dormant computing power.
Cutting Through the Hype: Finding the Difference Between True Innovation and a Good Use of Buzzwords
Tech executives’ ability to sort through bogus claims around new technology is more important now than ever before.
Trax Gets FCA ARM Nod, Awaits Test Details
MarketAxess’ Trax unit has received FCA approval to test transaction reporting capabilities under MiFID II, but is waiting for details of what the tests will involve.
SIX Launches Tax Compliance Data Service for CRS/AEoI
Officials say SIX's solution will ease firms' compliance burden and provide a single source of audit-ready tax data.
Dow Jones’ ‘DNA’ Test
The platform will provide analysts and developers with more flexible access to Dow Jones content, officials say.
Neptune Integrates into FlexTrade’s EMS
The integration is expected to assist investors with liquidity, price discovery and execution strategies, within existing workflows.
IEX Doubles Predictive Power of IEX Signal
Latest enhancement increases tool’s ability to predict price changes in market to approximately 26 percent.
State Street: Industry More Open to ESG Factors, But Challenges Remain
State Street research indicates that lack of transparent, standardized and quality data is the biggest obstacle to broad integration of ESG factors. Joanne Faulkner analyses the results.
Partnerships with Business and Fintech Firms Key for Infrastructure Innovation
Speakers at a NATAS panel on infrastructure called on collaboration with the business side and tapping microservices for agile projects.
War of the Clouds: An Inside Look at how Google, Microsoft, IBM & Oracle Are Chipping Away at AWS
The next great battle in the financial services space might not be in the blockchain or AI spaces—although they will play a role. No, the next monumental shift in the technology space is likely to be the public cloud sector. Anthony Malakian looks at how…
BMLL Preps New Model for Exchange Data Analytics
A majority of fund managers believe artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact the way funds are managed in the future. Joanne Faulkner reports on one startup looking to capitalize on this shift.