SBI Japannext, a proprietary trading system in Japan, has selected Orolia’s SecureSync time and frequency reference system along with STL satellite signal backup service to help protect sensitive financial trading and service systems. SecureSync combines Orolia’s precision master clock technology
The presence of high-frequency traders improves market fairness by reducing end-of-day price dislocation, according to research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Professor Michael Aitken (pictured), CMCRC chief executive, says that end of day (EOD) price dislocations whether
By Conner Guidry – As interest in the markets for crypto currencies and digital assets continues to grow, some hedge funds and members of the buy side are venturing into this rapidly changing ecosystem. Black Square Capital, a Washington DC hedge fund investing
Alternative investment fund (AIF) manager Olymp Capital has launched what it says is the first European investment fund to cover the entire blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem. The fund will include blockchain-related private equity, initial coin offering (ICO) activity, and fund-of-fund activity
TradingScreen (TS), an all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), has enhanced its offering through a partnership with Imagine Software, which offers real-time portfolio, risk, and compliance management solutions. “TradingScreen recognises the need to create seamless integrations and cultivate
KOGER is now offering a comprehensive end-to-end digital ecosystem for investor services with complete compliance, workflow and document management, and client web portal functionality. KOGER is primarily known in the industry for NTAS, its flagship transfer agency system that supports
The US Patent Office has awarded Green Key Technologies a patent for the design of its OTC liquidity allocation process called Decline Ratio Matching. Within Green Key’s Block Pool, a quote management platform used by OTC derivative participants, brokers are
LCJ Investments is to offer its discretionary-driven FX strategy on Hydra, Ketera Strategies’ managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies. LCJ’s Macro Strategy is a discretionary, fundamentals-based, global macro program that expresses its views through
Ibis Capital, profiled in AlphaQ, a specialist education technology alternative investment manager, is to launch the world’s first education technology special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The new company will be called EdTechX Holdings and will list on Nasdaq, according to
IHS Markit’s MarkitSERV now offers integration with BidFX, an industry leading execution management system (EMS) in the USD5 trillion daily FX market, for straight through post-trade processing of FX trades, including FX spot, forwards, swaps and NDFs. In working with
