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FactSet has launched new fixed income trading capabilities for its execution management system (EMS).
Portware, a FactSet trading solution, is best known for its electronic trading and automation services in the listed assets and Foreign Exchange markets. With the introduction of fixed income trading, it is now able to help clients trade more efficiently across more asset classes. FactSet worked with longtime client GIC to build out these new capabilities, which now operates in parallel with the other asset classes already supporting GIC’s global trading desks.
“Faced with greater demands and increased complexities, our traders need to have consistent
ED&F Man Capital Markets has adopted TS Imagine’s real-time risk, compliance and margin platform.
ED&F Man Capital Markets will now be able to manage initial and variation margin risk for SPAN and VaR based methodologies across its futures and options trading and clearing business.
Data management, unoptimised workflows and the complexity of managing multiple systems led ED&F Man Capital Markets to seek out a new risk and margin management solution. Following the success of the TS Imagine platform at clearers and prime brokers, and anticipating the need to upgrade their systems, ED&F Man Capital Markets selected TS Imagine’s fully
OSTTRA’s TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has powered the inaugural compression of listed Nikkei 225 options at Osaka Exchange (OSE), part of Japan Exchange Group.
The OSE compression service powered by TriOptima, will enable OSE members to reduce their open positions and lower the capital costs of index options. Typically, positions are netted against each other multilaterally, allowing each market participant to reduce their position. The move, further extends TriOptima’s optimisation expertise in the asset class, supporting an ongoing industry wide push to reduce costs when trading derivatives.
“We
CTAs and trend-following hedge funds have seen their recent advance halted, as anxieties over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 punctured market momentum towards the end of last month.
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the professional body for the global alternative investment industry, has launched a Latin America Chapter, CAIA LatAm, that will bring together CAIA Members and candidates from across Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Led by Chapter Head Daniel Mueller, CAIA, Partner, Head of Latin America with Alpine Capital Advisors, the new LatAm Chapter will focus on providing opportunities for CAIA Members across Latin America to network, share ideas and insights, discuss best practices, and engage in an environment that will foster the continued growth of the local alternative investment industry and
STP Investment Services (STP) has acquired third-party fund administrator Tower Fund Services (Tower).
Horizon Software, a provider of market making and algo trading technology, has expanded its electronic trading platform to include market making and agency trading functions in one single platform, powered by its algo framework.
Initially designed for market making and algo trading services, Horizon is now bringing agency trading to the next level, by leveraging its expertise in latency, scalability and sophisticated algo and execution strategies to banks and brokers.
With advanced functionalities in high touch, DMA, DSA and global order routing for equity and global derivatives, Horizon enables banks and institutional and retail brokers to meet the trading
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has launched a feature that enables users to customise their view on the market with a multi-screen function designed to generate alpha, providing professional traders with a means of exploiting correlations between different trading pairs.
Bitfinex users are empowered by obtaining access to a plethora of trading tools that enable them to deploy a variety of strategies across myriad digital token trading pairs. The high performance of the Bitfinex trading architecture – which has consistently withstood episodes of extreme volatility – provides traders with a reliable platform to deploy strategies once the preserve of incumbent
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched an automated Three-Way Reconciliation solution to tackle MiFIR transaction reporting issues.
The technology enables firms to fulfil their reconciliation requirements, validate their MiFIR reporting data and easily address errors – ensuring that reporting has been done completely and accurately.
Complete and accurate reporting data is critical for regulators to maintain fair and orderly markets. However, the industry has struggled with data integrity issues since MiFID II came into effect.
The reconciliation requirement (under Article 13 (3) and (4) of RTS 22) exists to enhance reporting quality by making firms
Vidrio Financial, a provider of managed data services and software for institutional alternative allocators globally, has made significant updates to its services and platform to supports the unique needs of institutional investors who allocate to external alternative asset funds, including hedge fund and private equity managers.
“As we continue to build on our long-term vision to become the de facto solution for institutional allocators, over the last 12 months we have made a series of updates to the Vidrio offering. These enhancements enable our clients to better manage their complex alternative investments and external manager relationships through deeper insights and
