Trading Tech
Avelacom Shaves Latency Off ‘Flagship' London-Moscow Route
Market makers, hedge funds, brokers and investment banks will now be able to trade between London and Moscow faster than before.
Tora Creates Charting Tool Powered by ChartIQ
Platform allows users to trade directly from charts and plot fills against real-time market data.
IHS Markit Completes POC for FRTB Aggregation
Proof of concept is to test out its FRTB Studio software in a real-time setting.
LiquidityBook Integrates FactSet Data, Analytics
The integration will allow users to run FactSet analytics against data held in LiquidityBook's trading platforms.
NovaSparks Expands NovaTick Market Coverage
The new additions covering Asia-Pacific, Scandinavia and Canada bring NovaSparks' total coverage to more than 50 markets worldwide.
SCB Securities Deploys Horizon's Trading Platform
The Thai securities firm will use the platform for advanced warrant market making as well as Delta One trading activities.
FX Feeds’ Sudden Evolutionary Leap
Firms' best execution requirements and desire to expand strategies into FX markets are creating demand for a new breed of high-performance FX datafeeds.
CME Clearing Joins IHS Markit's Netting Synchronization Service
Service will initially support cleared interest rate swaps, basis swaps, forward rate agreements, overnight index swaps and swaptions.
Seaborn Preps Ultra-Low Latency NJ-Brazil Connectivity for 2017
Seaborn has already manufactured the cable for the project, and will lay it between the US and Brazil in Q1 2017.
Bloomberg Tradebook Adds New Algo for Cross-Asset Trading Platform
Users can now trade a security relative to a set benchmark.
Blockchain and Fragmentation: 'We're in a Weird Spot'
"The problem I see is that if we don't, over the next six months or so, start to consolidate and focus on some core platforms, we'll have too much fragmentation."
Linedata Releases New Version of Portfolio Management System
Version 6.3 of Linedata Global Hedge includes new order-generation tools.
Bloomberg Clients Hit By Terminal ‘Slowness'
Sources say the slowness impacted their ability to trade for the two-hour affected period.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 47: Virtual Reality, Insider Trading
Dan and Anthony chat about Waters' biggest annual conference.
Putting All Data in the Cloud Is Possible, Say Panelists
Data governance and close scrutiny of vendors will help bring all data into either public or private clouds, said Waters USA panelists.
Aggelos Andreou: When Social Responsibility Becomes an Investment Strategy
Aggelos is encouraged by the burgeoning growth of socially responsible technologies within the capital markets, but says there is still a lot more work for vendors and financial firms to do.
TPI Data to Fuel Risk Modeling Alliance
Tullett Prebon's derivatives, credit and rates data will be used in a series of open-source risk analytics tools.
Smaller Hedge Funds Looking to New Tools to Better Manage Risk
"The cost of computations, the cost of connections, the cost of storage and analysis have come down. There's been a leveling of the playing field."
Cybersecurity: A Proving Ground for AI
Artificial intelligence can show its true value to the industry in the cybersecurity space.
CAT Needed Now More Than Ever
The Consolidated Audit Trail is exactly what the industry needs right now.
Datawatch Adds Support for Streaming Data, Regulations, HTML5 in Latest Panopticon Release
The new features will support faster decision making, and make it easier for users to create new analytics.
Innovation's Need for ‘Safe Spaces'
C-level executives at Waters USA talk about creating areas where innovation can prosper.
Saxo Bank Forms White Label Partnership with Phoenix Finance
Under a MoU, the Chinese fintech firm will integrate Saxo’s investment and trading capabilities.
GoldenSource Readies FRTB Risk Calculation Solution
GoldenSource is building on its data management competencies to develop new risk calculations and visualizations, as well as scenario analysis, to support FRTB requirements.