Cobalt announces expansion milestones
- 8 years 2 days ago
- Blockchain, Trading Systems
Cobalt, the FX post-trade processing network based on distributed ledger technology, today announced that Citadel Securities, a leading global market-maker across FX, fixed income, equities, ETFs and options, and XTX Markets, a leading quantitative-driven electronic market-maker, have signed up as Cobalt launch participants. Cobalt’s FX solution is set to launch in 2017. There are currently 22 beta participants on Cobalt’s peer-to-peer network... more
Horizon Extends “Buy and Build” Capability for Algo Trading
- 8 years 3 days ago
- Trading Systems
Award-winning Horizon Software announced today that it will give clients unparalleled control over their algo trading strategies, with the ability to modify the built-in templates in the Horizon Platform for Automated Trading. The three new templates which can be modified are Quote Reply Market Making, Hedge Volatility Order and Options Arbitrage.
Rival Systems Integrates with QuantHouse’s Ultra-Low Latency Market Data Feed
- 8 years 4 days ago
- Trading Systems
Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, today announced that it has integrated into its trading platform QuantHouse’s end-to-end ultra-low latency market data feed. The integration of QuantFEED into the Rival Trader and Rival API platforms further strengthens Rival’s multi-asset class offering with one of the fastest, most comprehensive global market data offerings available.
Portware Alpha Pro Sets The Benchmark For Intelligent Workflows That Drive Measurable Performance Improvements And Lower TCO
- 8 years 4 days ago
- Trading Systems
Portware, a FactSet Company and a leading global provider of multi-asset trade automation solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), today announced continuous momentum for its Alpha Pro AI-enabled algorithmic trading management solution with over $168 billion notional traded on its platform.
DTCC's Omgeo CTM Enables Post-trade Processing Capabilities to Private Fund Managers in China
- 8 years 4 days ago
- Trading Systems
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM), its strategic platform for the central matching of cross-border transactions and which is a part of DTCC’s
SIX Securities Services Reveals new Equity Index Baskets
- 8 years 5 days ago
- Trading Systems
SIX Securities Services, through its business unit SIX Repo Ltd, has witnessed an increasing demand for equity repo financing. Equity repos – baskets reproducing market indices – supplement the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) high-quality liquid asset baskets (HQLA), SNB HQLA 1 and 2, which are traded as the market standard on the CO:RE trading platform via direct counterparties (tri-party).
IG Group Introduces the First Retail IPO on Its Investment Platform
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Trading Systems
Today, IG Group, a global leader in providing trading and investing solutions, unveils first retail IPO on its investment platform. The IG Group has launched the service along with applications open for the Global Ports Holding IPO. The recent advancement of IG’s investment platform enables investors to subscribe to upcoming IPOs and placings through IG share dealing account or share dealing ISA. Furthermore, IG’s platform does not charge... more
Charles River Joins Forces with OTAS to Improve Trading Efficiency and Transparency for Buy-Side Firms
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Trading Systems
Charles River Development has partnered with OTAS Technologies and incorporated OTAS’s global equity trading analytics in the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS). The partnership makes OTAS’s trade analytics available as a separately licensed add-in to Charles River’s portfolio management workspace and combined order and execution management system (OEMS).
Rival Systems connects to Lime Brokerage’s Low Latency Execution Gateways to Provide Clients with Broad Equity Market Access
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Trading Systems, Risk Management
Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, and Lime Brokerage (Lime), a Wedbush Company, today announced an integrated solution combining Rival’s front-end trading and algorithmic strategy development software with Lime’s low latency execution services. The new offering, available immediately, enables Rival’s clients to access all U.S.
Liquidnet Fixed Income Innovations Drive Platform Growth and Adoption Globally
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Trading Systems
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced a record quarter driven by a growing Membership and the success of recent innovations designed to help corporate bond traders uncover additional liquidity.
Redline Unveils Support for Quincy Extreme Data Microwave Feed
- 8 years 1 week ago
- Trading Systems
Redline Trading Solutions, the premier provider of high-performance market data and order execution systems for automated trading, today announced its new feed handler for the Quincy Extreme Data (QED) feed. QED is distributed by Quincy Data, LLC via McKay Brothers’ microwave links from 18 co-location centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Vela Unveils European Best Bid Offer Solution
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Trading Systems
Vela Trading Technologies (Vela), a global leader in high performance trading and market data technology, has launched a fully-managed European Best Bid Offer (EBBO) solution in response to increased client demand to comply with the changing pre-trade transparency and best execution rules which will come into force with MiFID II in January 2018.
Ullink unveils UL PUBLISHER, a fully automated post-trade data management solution
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Trading Systems
Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, has launched a fully automated post-trade data management solution called UL PUBLISHER, enabling market participants to report transaction data to relevant regulatory authorities, meet upcoming MiFID 2 regulation and create a centralised view of post-trade data across multiple asset classes and front-office electronic trading systems.
TradAir Uses Trading Platform at Amazon AWS London Region
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Trading Systems
TradAir, the global provider of trading technology solutions for banks, brokers, prime of primes and regulated marketplaces, is using AWS’s London Region to reduce round-trip latency and improve its execution performance. TradAir’s fully managed low-latency trading technology solutions hosted in Equinix LD4, are now also hosted in the AWS London Region. The new AWS UK Region provides the scale, reach and high-availability critical for TradAir’s... more
Aquis Exchange Adds Austrian Blue-Chips
- 8 years 2 weeks ago
- Trading Systems
Aquis Exchange, the pan-European equities exchange and software developer, is to begin trading Austrian blue-chip stocks. The expansion of the Aquis Exchange trading universe by the addition of the 10 largest, most liquid, Austrian stocks will take place on Tuesday, 25th April 2017 and brings the total number of markets covered by the exchange to 14. Commenting on the announcement, Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis Exchange, said:
