Gadget ransomware warnings highlight opportunity to improve identity authentication
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Retail Banking, Fraud Detection, Infrastructure
Fraud follows the channels of adoption, but as we get more connected, the easier it will become to prove our identity. This week the National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre reported that a particular kind of security breach, ransomware, has grown significantly over the past year, with the popularity of internet-connected gadgets increasing the risk of attacks for consumers.
SLS Supplies JP Morgan With Access to the Buy-side Block Liquidity in Europe
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Buy-Side Back and Middle Office
SLS is a long-standing partnership of SIX Swiss Exchange with Liquidnet and provides access to the largest pool of buy-side block liquidity in Europe.
ThinkMarkets implements PayPal for global payment coverage
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Payments
ThinkMarkets is a leading provider of forex and CFD trading, who has enhanced its payment offering with the launch of PayPal. The new payment solution enables ThinkMarkets’ global user-base to deposit and withdraw funds through PayPal’s international network. With the addition of PayPal as a funding method, ThinkMarkets’ users will be able to deposit funds into their trading accounts on the MetaTrader 4 and ThinkTrader platform in a quick,... more
Edelweiss Singapore expands tech strategy with Horizon
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems
Horizon Software is the world's major provider of electronic trading and investment management technology. Today it has reported the extension of its long-term partnership with Edelweiss International Singapore (Pte) Limited, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services Limited, one of India's leading diversified financial services companies. Edelweiss will be using the latest version of Horizon's award-winning trading technology as a strategic... more
Broadridge Growths With Acqiusition of Message Automation
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment Management, M&A Deals
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has extended its global post-trade control capabilities for sell-side and buy-side firms in capital markets through the acquisition of Message Automation Limited, a leading specialist provider of post-trade control solutions. The acquisition accelerates Broadridge's ability to allow firms to transform their risk and compliance capabilities, particularly for complex asset classes where... more
icubic Stands Long-Term Partnership with Börse Stuttgart
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Online Trading
The IT service provider icubic develops specialised standard software for pricing, quoting and trading of financial products on electronic markets and offers product-related installation and maintenance services. The long-standing close cooperation with Börse Stuttgart will be expanded in the future with icubic AG as their official system partner. This enables icubic to provide a technical connection to Börse Stuttgart’s new and innovative... more
ARQA Technologies held its 13-th annual seminar for clients and partners
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems
ARQA Technologies announced that the company held its 13-th annual seminar for clients and partners in February, Moscow. The seminar gathered 350 participants representing over a hundred companies – Russian and foreign clients and partners of ARQA Technologies. Among the partners participating in the seminar there were trading venues, market data and technology vendors, trading service providers and data centres.
TA Associates Announces Minority Investment in Interswitch
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems
TA Associates, a world leading growth private equity firm, today reported it has acquired a minority equity interest in Interswitch. Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Helios Investment Partners will remain the majority shareholder of Interswitch.
Ullink upgrades its leading FIX engine to Version 8
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems
Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced a new release of its leading FIX engine, UL APPIA. Version 8 of UL APPIA adds support for generation and processing of microsecond granularity timestamps and new FIX tags, recently ratified by the FIX Trading Community, which must be sent along with electronic orders to support MiFID2 trade and transaction reporting requirements.
Horizon Prolongs Partnership With Edelweiss Singapore Providing Award-winning Trading Technology
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment Management
Horizon Software, the leading global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, today announced the extension of its long-term relationship with Edelweiss International Singapore (Pte) Limited (Edelweiss Singapore), a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services Limited, one of India’s leading diversified financial services companies. Edelweiss will be using the latest version of Horizon’s award-winning trading technology... more
Turquoise chooses QuantHouse to extend Turquoise Plato™ midpoint matching services across Europe
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Data, Infrastructure
QuantHouse, the global provider of innovative market data services, trading and infrastructure solutions, today announced that Turquoise® has extended the QuantHouse real-time primary market data feeds to its Turquoise Plato™ midpoint matching services, including the award winning Turquoise Plato Block Discovery™, to cover securities of 18 European countries, including those recently added emerging markets Czech Republic and Hungary.
Japan Exchange Regulation And Tokyo Stock Exchange apply AI to Market Surveillance
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems
Japan Exchange Regulation ("JPX-R") and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. ("TSE") have decided to take the groundbreaking move of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to market surveillance operations. JPX-R and TSE have been examining ways to conduct more sophisticated market surveillance using AI technologies developed respectively by NEC Corporation ("NEC") and Hitachi, Ltd. ("Hitachi").
FIX Trading Community Introduces Improvements to the FIX Protocol According MiFID II and MiFIR Requirements
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Equities Trading
FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the publication of a document detailing extensions to the FIX Protocol to meet the requirements of MiFID II and MiFIR. The FIX Global Technical Committee has approved these changes and these are now available to use within the industry.
BT links up the world’s five main FXs
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Trading Systems
BT today announced that it is linking up the world’s five main foreign exchange (FX) locations to help boost the competitiveness of its global financial industry customers. The company is now offering BT Radianz FX express, dedicated high-speed links between financial hubs in the UK, US, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong involved in almost 77 per cent of the world’s FX trading*.
Exchange Data International adds ETFG to its Data Offerings
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Trading Systems, Market and Reference Data
ETF Global uncovers critical data on the $2 trillion + in US listed Exchange-Traded-Fund assets, considered by many to be the investment vehicle of the future. ETFs offer access to markets that were previously hard to enter efficiently, so research and investment communities have substantial interest in exploring this new investment channel.
