Sell-Side Technology/News
Colt Cuts Japan–Hong Kong Latency to Sub-41ms
Beyond new latency reductions between Tokyo and Hong Kong, Colt will continue to optimize its routes and expand its network coverage.
Euroclear to Roll Out Fixed Income Data Services
The post-trade firm and custodian will launch new data services for fixed income liquidity and APIs for its reference data offerings.
Oracle Leverages Deep Learning To Detect Financial Crime
Oracle is using deep learning to find matching patterns for graph analytics within its compliance platform.
Cboe Plans Comeback in Crypto Markets
The US exchange is again planning to offer crypto derivatives, while after previous attempts to gain regulatory approval to list crypto ETFs were thwarted.
Nasdaq Updates Surveillance Offering to Build Trader Profiles to Catch Spoofing
The company is combining different data sources to help users spot market abuse and manipulation.
People Moves: LSEG, BNY Mellon, Matthew Nelson, Jennifer Grancio and LiquidityBook
A look at some of the key 'people moves' from last week, including Arne Staal's move to LSEG and BNY Mellon's new global FX COO, Paresh Shah.
This Week: SimCorp, Nasdaq, FactSet/Snowflake, IBM
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
Isda Wants Regulators to use its Model to Draft Rules
The trade association is looking to offer its Common Domain Model to rulemakers.
LSEG: Cloud Enables Better Visualization Tools
Advances made in the exchange group's cloud program have filtered down to help improve its data offerings.
This Week: Fidelity Digital Asset, State Street, HSBC, Instinet, INTL FCStone, Quantopian
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Ahead of Test, CAT Faces Hurdles with Reporter Agreement
Sources say broker-dealers have not yet signed an agreement allowing them access to the test environment.
Horizon Software Adds Market-Making, Hedging Algos to Library
Clients can use the algos from the libraries to connect to their existing algos and strategies.
OKEx Expands Crypto Derivatives Offering
The Malta-headquartered digital asset exchange has upgraded its trading architecture, with an eye on futures and options trading features.
This Week: AWS Quantum, Nomura/Pico, Broadridge, Instinet
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
RBC Capital Markets Seeks Analytics Vendors
The investment bank is looking to partner with companies like Pyramid Analytics for better insight.
APIs to Help with Regulatory Differences Over Dark Trading
Technologists urged to adopt a more flexible plug-and-play approach using APIs, as concerns grow about the FCA and Esma's differing attitudes toward dark trading.
New York Fed Eyes Machine Learning to Predict Misreporting
The regulator's goal is to decrease the back and forth during reporting and predict misreporting.
Bank of America Using Gamer Tech to Improve Trader Experience
As part of its digitization efforts, the bank is looking to video game technology to allow traders to consume more information.
Turicode Targets Financial Markets in Asia
The vendor's software allows firms to train machine-learning models to better recognize and extract the data in documents.
UBS Cuts Outsourced Tech Jobs
The investment bank has eliminated thousands of roles and revamped its approach to outsourcing over the last two years.
Avelacom Adds Multi-Cloud Connectivity for Crypto Traders
Direct links set up in each location “jump” from points-of-presence to a cloud in under a millisecond.
LSEG Building New Algo-Testing Tool
The exchange group is developing new regtech products while looking to move these offerings to the cloud in 2020.
Universal-Investment Building Amazon-Style Offering For Funds
The Frankfurt-based firm still has to get regulatory approval for the blockchain project, but aims to start beta testing next year.
AFME Calls for pan-European Crypto Asset Taxonomy
The industry body has urged EU lawmakers and stakeholders to become leaders in delivering a common regulatory framework for digital assets.