Trading Tech
MarketPsych Readies Revamped V2.0 of TRMI Sentiment Indexes
Los Angeles-based behavioral finance and analysis provider MarketPsych is preparing to launch a new version of its Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indexes (TRMI) machine-readable news service, which will incorporate sentiment on global equity indexes and…
CNSX Mulls ITCH Feed, Continues Equinix Migration
Canadian exchange group CNSX Markets is considering rolling out new versions of its market data feeds based on Nasdaq OMX's ITCH protocol in a bid to grow its membership base of market makers, algorithmic traders and low-latency trading firms.
StatPro Revolution Adds Commitment Approach for UCITS, AIFMD Compliance
StatPro Group has announced it has added ‘commitment approach’ to its Revolution portfolio analytics and reporting tool for compliance with Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITS) and Alternative Investment Fund…
Esma Examines HFT, CSDs in Risk Report
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has released its first report on trends, risks, and vulnerabilities for 2014, choosing to focus, in part, on the effects of high-frequency trading (HFT) and the potential systemic risks posed by…
S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed
The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…
Charles River to Enter the IBOR Fray
Later this year Charles River is set to unveil a module that will allow its buy-side clients to manage their investment book of record (IBOR) activities. The IBOR functionality will be deployed along with version 9.2 of the Charles River Investment…
CounterpartyLink Partners with RDC to Streamline Due Diligence
CounterpartyLink will now screen its clients' counterparties against the sanctions lists and risk intelligence maintained by Regulatory DataCorp to help them simplify due diligence processes
MarketPrizm Partners with Object Trading on DMA
MarketPrizm, a London-based provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, will offer Object Trading’s managed FrontRunner direct market access (DMA) on its data-enabled platform, allowing firms to reduce the resource constraints of market…
Azul Takes Aim at Java Warm-Up Issues with ReadyNow!
Azul Systems has announced the inclusion of ReadyNow! in the latest iteration of Zing, its Java virtual machine (JVM), designed to mitigate time delays that occur when Java applications can't reach optimal efficiency during intense periods of market…
Lombard Risk and Broadridge Strike Collateral Management Alliance
Lombard Risk, the London-headquartered provider of collateral management, regulatory compliance, and reporting technology, and Lake Success, NY-based Broadridge Financial Solutions, have formed an alliance that will address capital markets firms’…
Object Trading, MarketPrizm Ally for Managed DMA, Market Data
Trading technology and data platform vendor Object Trading is partnering with London-based market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm to provide a managed direct market access service that includes market data, order execution,…
TT Unveils Cloud-based Trading Platform, Will Sunset X_Trader
Trading Technologies International (TT) today unveiled Nextrader, its new trading platform.
TMX to Open Singapore Office
Canadian exchange consortium TMX Group has announced plans to expand to the Asia-Pacific region by opening a new office in Singapore.
Analyzing direct and indirect global networks to understand true risk exposure -- special report
What you don’t know can hurt you: Analyzing direct and indirect global networks to understand true risk exposure
CME Builds on FX Strengths with European Venue Launch
The launch of a European derivatives venue by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has been long awaited. Yesterday, CME Europe finally received regulatory approval from the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and is…
Long on Bitcoin: Perseus and Atlas ATS Burnish Digital Currency, Target Market-Makers
Despite recent headline-splashing travails, Bitcoin is steadily gaining reception among the world's largest market-makers and funds like Fort Hill Capital. Atlas, an alternative trading system, and network services provider Perseus are meeting that…
Emerging Technologies: The Risks and the Rewards
In the final part of this five-part feature on emerging technologies in the capital markets, we look at the risks and the rewards associated with adopting and implementing such technologies, and how to go about striking that delicate balance between…
RepRisk Preps ESG Country-Sector Risk Matrixes
Swiss environmental, social and governmental (ESG) risk data provider RepRisk is preparing to add country-sector matrixes to its company database of ESG information, enabling banks, asset managers and pension funds to view the ESG risks relating to…
RTS Adds Charts to Tango Trading System
Trading software vendor RTS Realtime Systems has released a new version of its RTD Tango Trader platform, featuring a "sophisticated" charting and analytics package of more than 30 customizable analytical indicators.
RTS Releases New Version of RTD Tango Trader
Trading technology vendor RealTime Systems Group (RTS) has released a new version of its click and algorithmic trading front-end, RTD Tango Trader 2.0, including a chart analytics package and algo development services.
Bucharest Stock Exchange Dials up Mobile Data App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange announced it has launched a new mobile app that allows investors to access market data information more efficiently anywhere, anytime via Apple and Android smartphones.
Van Diamandakis to Drive Corvil Marketing
Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil has appointed Van Diamandakis as its new chief marketing officer, responsible for expanding the company's analytics and monitoring platforms beyond the financial services industry.
Azul Helps Cinnober Add Zing to its Java Solution
Stockholm-based trading system provider Cinnober will offer Zing, Azul's high performance runtime for Java, with its TradeExpress solutions.
Charity-Run HFT Shop Picks IPC for Connectivity
Vivienne Court, a high-frequency arbitrage firm based in Sydney, has selected the Financial Markets Network from New York-based IPC to cover its voice and electronic trading network connectivity requirements.