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Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has added euro (EUR) and yen (JPY) to Bitfinex Borrow, a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital token loan portal.
TORA, a provider of industry leading trading technology, has integrated its order & execution management system (OEMS) with global institutional investment network, Liquidnet’s IA Trader. The integration offers access to advanced artificial intelligence, data analytics tools and a broad range of Liquidnet trading algorithms.
Integrating IA Trader directly in the TORA OEMS helps equity traders enhance their decision making process at the point of trade. The system delivers actionable signals, alerts, compact stamp summaries and data visualisation capabilities that are designed to provide clients greater day-to-day efficiency and enhanced operational workflow in one holistic system.
Liquidnet’s IA Trader provides
Exactpro, a software testing provider for financial market infrastructures, has launched th2, a next-generation test automation toolkit for functional and non-functional testing of complex financial systems. The th2 toolkit is designed to enable efficient machine learning (ML)-driven testing for complex distributed transaction processing systems, such as securities trading systems and exchanges, banking, brokerage, post-trade (eg clearing, settlement, custody), and payments platforms.
th2 can withstand heavy testing loads, improving test coverage, system quality, and resilience. This is complemented by a range of enhanced data capabilities including faster data processing and unified storage of test results. This provides the ability to perform
ALPIMA, a B2B SaaS platform for investment management and product design, has launched ALPIMA Notebooks 2.0, an enhanced module that enables quant and development teams to build, develop and implement high-quality investment strategies – faster and better. ALPIMA Notebooks 2.0 supports rapid prototyping, strategy design and custom indexing for a wide group of users across banks, index providers, asset managers, wealth managers and asset owners.
Initially available to a small group of enterprise clients, a broader roll-out is scheduled for January 2021.
“ALPIMA Notebooks 2.0 provides quant and development teams with a highly flexible environment to accelerate the design, evaluation and
Norway Data Center operator Bulk Infrastructure has been selected by a London based Quant hedge fund to house its High Performance Computing (HPC) system. The new HPC cluster triples the compute capacity of its existing facilities in London. With the latest AI server architecture, the density required pushing the power to well over 30kW per rack.
“We are delighted to welcome another new customer to our N01 Norway Campus. The industry is increasingly seeing the sustainability and low-cost opportunities Bulk provides at our Nordic facilities as very compelling,” says Rob Elder, Vice President at Bulk Data Centers.
“Additionally, it
Hecksher Partners has launched NexGen360.io, a new global fund solution designed to fit the new reality of the fully outsourced model for asset managers.
While the relationship between systematic hedge funds and alternative data sources is not new, quants have recently raised concerns that alt data is not giving the same alpha as it used to.
The recent stock market “exuberance” sparked off by breakthroughs in Covid-19 vaccine trials may give way to disappointment next year, says Argonaut Capital CEO and CIO Barry Norris, who continues to build short positions in a number of drug companies, including AstraZeneca, amid continued uncertainty over efficacy and dosage in its trial process.
Apex Group (Apex) has launched CFO & COO Solutions via subsidiary Throgmorton. This product development follows the recent launch of Throgmorton Compliance Solutions, which delivers tailored services including license applications, regulatory audits, compliance monitoring and technology-enabled management services.
Throgmorton appreciates that fast growing businesses and new launches alike often reach a stage in their development where they need dedicated financial and operational resource. Throgmorton’s CFO & COO Solutions will provide a comprehensive offering to help outsource these functions and alleviate the associated cost pressures on asset managers.
The CFO & COO Solutions team works in partnership with asset managers to
CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, and Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintechs, have agreed to enter into a collaboration to provide Finastra customers with access to CLSNet, CLS’s bilateral payment netting calculation service.
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