The global equities business of UBS has launched algorithmic trading for international clients trading equities on the Bovespa stock exchange in Brazil. UBS is among the first broker-dealers to offer non-Brazilian clients algorithmic trading in this major market. UBS is
CLSA Americas (CLSAA) has integrated the IEX Alternative Trading System (ATS) and Smart Order Router (SOR) across its Electronic Execution algorithms. This gives clients the option to use the IEX SOR for accessing displayed liquidity across all lit markets as
Forex signals provider iFexx has launched an algorithmic investment programme (AIP) for auto forex trading. It aims to help small investors implement a high-frequency trading strategy on their Forex account. HFT, or high-frequency trading, is a special class of
Advent Software has entered into an agreement with Virtus Partners to integrate Geneva, its portfolio management and fund accounting solution, with Virtus’ bank loan data offering. Through this relationship, Advent’s Geneva clients will have access to automated loan data feeds
Knight Capital Group has launched Knight Link in Europe, a trading model for European equities which provides institutional and retail broker-dealers with access to Knight’s liquidity. “We are very excited to be launching Knight Link in Europe,” says Kee-Meng Tan
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services is the exclusive licensor of real-time market data for spot, derivatives and spread products traded on PEGAS, as of 1 January 2015. PEGAS is the central natural gas trading platform of EEX Group, operated
The use of social media has increased significantly within the hedge fund industry over the past couple of years, according to a paper from Agecroft Partners. Social media is broadly used by investors as part of their due diligence process
Hedge fund cloud services specialist Liquid Holdings Group is to be among the first group of approved service providers included in the FIS Group Ecosystem. FIS Group created the Ecosystem to assist talented entrepreneurial portfolio managers in the formation and
Corporate and fiduciary services company, MaplesFS is to provide entity management and corporate services globally to TPG, an international private investment firm. Responding to the increasing trend for investment management and private equity firms seeking to outsource these services for
Private financial cloud provider Options has implemented a series of upgrades and expansions to its managed server hosting and connectivity in Carteret, New Jersey. The announcement comes ahead of this month’s eSpeed migration to the main Nasdaq data centre in
