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Dealer relief at delays to Refinitiv Matching’s tech migration
First phase of replatforming for Swiss spot pairs set to be pushed to mid-2025.
Interactive Brokers looks beyond US borders for growth opportunities
As retail trading has grown in volume and importance, Interactive Brokers and others are expanding international offerings and marketing abroad.
People Moves: ING, Clear Street, CME Group, Sifma, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space.
CME: CFTC OKs clearing move to Google Cloud
The CFTC has given the Chicago-based exchange approval to run its clearing and settlement infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform, while the exchange and vendor have extended their partnership to last until at least 2037.
This Week: IPC extends Google Cloud partnership, BlackRock/AIA, DTCC and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Waters Wrap: CME, Google and the pursuit of ultra-low-latency trading
CME Group and Google have announced Aurora, Illinois, as the location for the exchange’s new co-location facility. Anthony explains why this is more than just the next phase of the two companies’ originally announced project.
Consortium backs BGC’s effort to challenge CME
Banks and market makers—including BofA, Citi, Goldman, Jump and Tower—will have a 26% stake in FMX.
As crypto ETFs become reality, benchmark providers take center stage
The SEC’s approval of the first spot bitcoin ETFs will expose a growing number of traditional market participants to the maturing world of crypto data, a moment that some—such as CF Benchmarks, BlackRock’s benchmark provider—have been eagerly awaiting.
CME moves core data to the cloud, readies new data products, analytics
The exchange group has migrated its core data to the cloud as part of its 10-year partnership with Google Cloud, and is now looking ahead to further migrations and leveraging the cloud to power new data products.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s capital markets expansion continues
Anthony looks back at some of the major cloud and AI projects involving the likes of Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and/or Snowflake in 2023.
Hunting for reliable low latency, HFTs look to novel techs in 2023
WatersTechnology looks at advancements in market data latency technology and what role the cloud can play.
People Moves: HKEX, Trading Technologies, CME Group, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space.
Getting up to speed: Shortwave Chicago-London link clocks under 25ms
Industry benchmarking body Stac reports audit findings on the latency and throughput of Raft Technologies’ Chicago-London links.
This Week: EuroCTP, CME/DTCC, State Street, Broadridge and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Getting the message out about Aeron’s messaging
A year after Adaptive’s acquisition of Real Logic’s Aeron, the search for users of the open-source tech continues as Adaptive promises that UDP messaging can usurp TCP.
ICE to offer ultra-low latency data between the US and Europe
The offering will run eastward, connecting routes in the US with European markets in London, Frankfurt, and Bergamo.
This Week: TS Imagine/CLSA; MSCI/Burgiss; HSBC/Calastone and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
How exchanges are becoming more than just marketplaces
Wei-Shen examines how exchanges are branching out and pursuing new ventures that could bring them fresh revenue streams.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s subtle plans for capital markets domination
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft aren't just cloud providers anymore—and their tentacles are going to spread deep into trading systems going forward.
CME-Google cloud partnership already yielding new data analytics
CME is spending a small fortune to migrate its technology to Google’s cloud, betting on the cloud’s ability to return a large fortune from development of new data products and services.
IMD & IRD Awards 2023: Best market data provider (exchange)—CME Group
Product: CME Group Data Services