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Upcoming Webinar: Smart Trader Desktops: Placing UX at the front and centre of the trading workflow
Date: 15 October 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Trading strategy is in place, the technology stack is optimised and the trading team is highly skilled – but what about the user experience? Whatever the stack, the desktop, the trading apps and their functionality, a trading platform is…
Evolving with the Market: Technology Strategies for Modern Sell Side Firms
When making strategic decisions regarding trading technology, sell-side firms such as investment banks and brokers face some difficult choices. Their technology platforms must do more than just meet their internal needs, such as; accessing liquidity on multiple trading venues, managing diverse asset classes, facilitating high touch and low touch order flow, providing their sales traders…
Euronext Launches EWIN Microwave Link Between London & Bergamo, Halving Order Transmission Latency
Euronext, the pan-European exchange and market infrastructure group, has launched the Euronext Wireless Network (EWIN), making it the first exchange in Europe to offer ‘plug & Play’ order entry via microwave technology, and significantly enhancing the speed of order transmissions between London, UK, and Bergamo, Italy. The launch of EWIN represents a significant technological advancement…
valantic FSA Partners with Nasdaq to Develop Nasdaq Rates Trader for Nordic and Baltic Markets
valantic FSA, the electronic trading and automation solutions provider, has announced a partnership with Nasdaq to develop Nasdaq Rates Trader, a new web-based user interface for Nasdaq’s Nordic and Baltic fixed income markets. The interface will offer access to Nasdaq’s data and trading functionalities through a modern and intuitive front-end. Key features include advanced data…
Horizon Trading Solutions Launches Mutualised Hosting Services in Partnership with TNS
Electronic trading and algorithmic technology provider Horizon Trading Solutions has partnered with financial market infrastructure vendor Transaction Network Services (TNS), to launch its new mutualised hosting services. The collaboration allows Horizon to utilise TNS’ robust hosting and hardware solutions as a colocation provider, enabling on-premise services at the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) data centre for…
Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange Adopts ION’s XTP Technology for Energy Transition Markets
The Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse has selected ION’s XTP technology to support its new market initiatives aimed at the ongoing energy transition. The Abaxx Exchange, which commenced trading in Singapore on 28 June, has collaborated with ION to deliver secure and scalable post-trade clearing and risk management solutions. The Abaxx Exchange introduces five…
Liquidnet and Boltzbit Collaborate, Utilising GenAI to Accelerate Bond Primary Markets Workflow by 90%
Liquidnet, the technology-driven agency execution specialist, has partnered with AI startup Boltzbit to enhance its fixed income primary markets workflow, using generative AI (GenAI) technology to reduce the time required to process unstructured deal data and prepare bonds for trading, by 90%. The collaboration accelerates the processing and display of newly announced bond deals by…
DTCC FICC Releases Tools to Help Firms Address Incoming SEC Central Clearing Mandate
The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has launched two new publicly available tools to help participants navigate the financial obligations that come with membership in a clearing system. The facilities are aimed at helping firms address the post-trade implications of a Securities and Exchange Commission…
Post-Trade Evolution: Insights from OSTTRA’s Leadership on Industry Challenges
OSTTRA is a relatively new company formed in 2021 as a joint venture between CME Group and IHS Markit (now a wholly-owned subsidiary of S&P Global). It unites four businesses that have been central to post-trade evolution and innovation for over 25 years: MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima, and Reset. With 1,200 employees and eight global office…
Exegy and AMD Achieve Record-Breaking Tick-to-Trade Latency in STAC-T0 Benchmark
Exegy, the high-performance trading solutions provider, in collaboration with AMD, has achieved a record-breaking actionable latency of up to 13.9 nanoseconds in the latest STAC-T0 report, which evaluates tick-to-trade network-I/O latency. The milestone was accomplished using an off-the-shelf solution (AMD Alveo’s UL3524 FPGA accelerator card) with an asynchronous implementation for the critical path of the…