Trading Tech
Options Boosts US Co-Lo Coverage with NYSE Mahwah
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has completed the expansion of its Velocity hosting platform into NYSE Euronext's datacenter in Mahwah, NJ, in a move to provide clients with co-location services for all US equity and…
BNY Mellon Launches Online Portal to Monitor Outsourced Operations
Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has launched MyOnCore, an online portal solution that helps investment managers in controlling and monitoring their governance parameters around their outsourced arrangements.
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Swift Adds Two to Compliance Services Arm
SWIFT has appointed Christopher Johnson and Fedra Ware as Practice Leads, Compliance Services, in the Americas.
London Stock Exchange Signs Partnership with Casablanca Bourse
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) has signed a partnership agreement with the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
BNP Paribas Survey: Strategic Outsourcing the New Norm
As banks and brokers are more and more willing to outsource their middle and back-office functionality to focus on core activities, a recent survey by YouGov and sponsored by BNP Paribas Securities Services has found that one in five respondents are…
OneChicago Introduces Weekly Futures
The equity finance exchange today announced it will offer a new suite of products called OCX.Weekly beginning on Friday, June 20. The exchange will continue to list weekly futures each subsequent Friday.
CQG Adds DJ Calendar Live
Data, analytics and trading platform provider CQG last month incorporated Dow Jones Calendar Live to its Integrated Client flagship data and trading platform, to support real-time trading decisions and longer-term strategy planning based on events and…
Linedata Adds FATCA and AML Functionality to Mshare
Linedata has announced its transfer agency software, Mshare, is now able to address regulatory compliance requirements with additional FATCA withholding tax capabilities and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) updates to its service.
On The Record: Taking Over Telx
When then-Telx chief executive Eric Shepcaro passed away in 2013, during a critical period in the company's growth, the datacenter provider tapped president and chief financial officer Chris Downie to take over the CEO role first on an interim basis,…
Tocom Taps KVH for CME Data Link
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) has deployed Japanese datacenter and hosting provider KVH's global Ether-WAN network to connect between KVH's TDC1proximity datacenter in Tokyo and CME Group's datacenters in Aurora, Illinois and at 350 East Cermak…
Addicticks Adds Scenario Builder to TR Emulator Tool
Dutch market data technology provider Addicticks is developing new functionality for its TRemulator tool, which simulates data from Thomson Reuters sources─namely, the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real Time (TREP-RT), the vendor's Elektron…
Options Adds Velocimetrics Latency, Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated Velocimetrics' monitoring and performance analysis technology with its Velocity low-latency market data and connectivity product.
Barchart Expands Web Services Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart.com has released a number of new web services APIs for commodity futures data via its Barchart OnDemand service, which leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
LCH.Clearnet Limited Receives EMIR Approval
LCH.Clearnet Limited, the UK-based central counterparty (CCP) operated by the LCH.Clearnet Group, has received regulatory approval from the Bank of England to operate as a central counterparty under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
Asia Pacific Stock Exchange to Employ Nasdaq Technology
Nasdaq OMX will deliver its trading technology, X-stream, as well as Genium FIX, to Asia Pacific Stock Exchange to power its APeX trading platform, which is expected to go live in late 2014.
Thomson Reuters Hopes to Strike Gold by Adding GFMS Mine Data to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added global gold mine information from precious and industrial metals markets research and analysis subsidiary GFMS Mine Economics to its Eikon desktop platform to provide metals traders and analysts with predictive indicators for…
Colt ‘Unifies' Colt, MarketPrizm Capital Markets Teams
UK-based network and hosting services provider Colt has created a new unified Colt Capital Markets team that covers sales, product operations and delivery across Europe, drawing from its own staff and from employees from MarketPrizm, the UK-based market…
Mizuho Trust & Banking Luxembourg Taps SimCorp
The custody, fund administration, and securities services arm of the Japanese bank, operating in the micro-state and known as MHTBL, will use SimCorp's Dimension to maintain compliance with impending EMIR and AIFMD regulation and for other business…
Markit Plugs Real-Time Data into Valuations Service
Markit has integrated real-time trade data from its MarkitServ electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter derivatives with its Portfolio Valuations valuation service that provides independent mark-to-market valuations and risk analytics for…
Rapid Addition Partners with DET Technologies
As part of a partnership between London-based technology provider Rapid Addition and Prague-based trading platform support specialists DET Technologies, Rapid Addition’s RA-Cheetah FIX engine will support DET Technologies’ flagship DET Hub.
Moscow Exchange Taps Fincad for OTC Analytics
The Moscow Exchange has rolled out Vancouver-based over-the-counter deriveatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad's F3 Platform to allow quantitative analysts and credit officers at member trading firms to perform risk analysis, compute…
REDI Buys, Integrates BAML's InstaQuote EMS
Execution management system (EMS) provider REDI Global Technologies has completed its year-long acquisition of BofA Merill Lynch's multi-asset InstaQuote platform, clients, and personnel.