London Stock Exchange Welcomes First Ever Chinese Green Covered Bond
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
London Stock Exchange today welcomes the listing of the first ever Chinese Green Covered Bond, issued by Bank of China. The bond, part of Bank of China’s wider MTN programme, creates in effect a new and innovative asset class for global investors, raised $500m. To celebrate the listing, Tian Guoli, Chairman, Bank of China and Simon Kirby MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury opened London trading.
Abel Noser Releases Ambitious Expansion Program
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems, Fund Management
Abel Noser announced today it has finalized the previously announced management-led buyout of the firm along with private equity fund Estancia Capital Partners, L.P. The transition of the business to the second generation of senior management after the retirement of its founding partners will empower Abel Noser to continue to grow its existing businesses, including trade analytics services, transaction compliance, and agency-only brokerage... more
Neptune Welcomes Citi and Deutsche Bank to its Network
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Neptune, the open-standard network for bond pre-trade real-time AXE indications, today announced the addition of Citi and Deutsche Bank to its network. The Neptune network provides a venue for dealers to share information with investors on the bonds that they are looking to buy and sell, making it easier for investors to execute bond transactions.
ThinkMarkets Reveals New MT4 Super
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems, Foreign Exchange
Leading multi-asset trading platform, ThinkMarkets has announced its revamped platform MT4 Super, an enhanced custom version of Metatrader4. The move is part of ThinkMarkets’ ongoing push to enhance client experience.
SGX Academy And IBF Introduce Certified Securities Professionals Programme
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems, Security
In a move to provide securities professionals more training opportunities to acquire technical and soft skills, the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the launch of the SGX Academy Certified Securities Professionals Programme (CSP), developed in accordance to the IBF Standards for Sales and Trading/Execution (Retail).
IPC Thought Leader to Present at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit Europe
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that one of the company's thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, IPC's Global Director of Product Marketing, will be presenting to influential European heads of fixed income trading and portfolio management at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Barcelona, Spain scheduled to be held from November 8-10, 2016 at the Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos I. The event will focus on critical concerns faced by fixed income... more
Market Moves to Adopt TriOptima's triResolve Margin Service
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Derivatives and OTC Derivatives
TriOptima, a leading provider of OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services and infrastructure, announces today that an increasing number of financial institutions are joining the triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin rules for non-cleared OTC derivatives effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include a variety of dealers, buy-side and corporates such as B & P Fund Services AB, BRED Banque... more
FINCAD Empowers Buy Side with Unique MBS Solution
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
FINCAD, the leading provider of sophisticated valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset derivatives and fixed income portfolios, today announced that its F3 solution now offers coverage for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and structured fixed income securities such as RMBS, ABS, CMBS and CLOs via integration with data analytics providers, AD&Co and Intex. Buy side firms can use F3 to accurately hedge exposure and perform scenario... more
Nasdaq and SIX Swiss Exchange Extend their Current Technology Contract
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Nasdaq and SIX Swiss Exchange announced the extension of their current technology contract, which includes X-stream INET Trading technology for all SIX markets, including equities, ETFs, structured products, funds and fixed income, as well as SMARTS Market Surveillance and Nasdaq Pre-Trade Risk Management. In addition, the new SIX Swiss Exchange At Midpoint (SwissAtMid) dark pool was launched on Nasdaq trading and surveillance technology earlier... more
BCA Research Expands Equity Trading Strategy to Global Coverage
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
BCA Research, the leading provider of independent investment research, today announced the expansion of the firm’s Equity Trading Strategy (ETS) to cover equity markets in the MSCI World Index. ETS is an equity analysis platform that ranks companies by analyzing a proprietary mix of macro, fundamental and market data to explain stock price performance and identify mispriced assets.
Object Trading Conforms to BM&FBOVESPA for Direct Connection to Deep Liquidity
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Object Trading, a provider of multi-asset trading infrastructure, announced today that it has been fully approved by BM&FBOVESPA in Sao Paulo, as a conformed ISV to handle market data, order entry and pre-trade risk constraints via its Direct Market Access (DMA) Platform for its clients and partners. BM&FBOVESPA’s recent requirements for direct connections, in lieu of order routing partnerships, takes effect today.
Fidessa's Buy-Side Community Gathers in New York to Examine Key Industry Issues
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Fidessa group recently held its second annual buy-side client conference which brought together 70 senior executives from global asset management firms. Themed "Invested in the Future" the conference provided attendees with an opportunity to examine topics ranging from unbundling to block trading, and automation to post-trade.
Amenda Markets Reveals Negative Spreads for Spot FX
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Amenda, the provider of Pure-DMA, which delivers aggregated liquidity feeds from multiple liquidity providers, has made it possible to trade on "Negative spreads," reversing the bid/ask prices by maintaining prices as-is. This has led Amenda to achieve some of the tightest spreads for spot FX available around the world according to internal market research.
SETL Teams with Cobalt DL For FX Post Trade Solution
- 9 years 3 months ago
- Trading Systems
SETL, the London based financial blockchain specialist, and Cobalt DL, a private peer-to-peer network that reduces post trade cost and risk for financial market participants through distributed ledger technology, today announced a partnership to deploy the SETL OpenCSD within the Cobalt FX post trade platform. The service is set to launch in 2017, with 15 leading institutional FX participants already committed to the service.
Thomson Reuters and SGX SFI Series Selected As UOB’s Recommended Fixed Income Benchmark
- 9 years 3 months ago
- Trading Systems
Thomson Reuters and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that the TR/SGX Singapore Fixed Income Indices (TR/SGX SFI) have been selected as the recommended fixed income benchmark by United Overseas Bank (UOB) following the discontinuation of the UOB SGS Index.
