Solutions
McKay Brothers International (MBI) is now offering connectivity at the lowest known commercial latency between the Tokyo-CC2 data centre and trading centres in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The procured hybrid microwave/fibre service between the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) data centre and the @Tokyo-CC2 data centre takes less than 22.86 milliseconds (ms) round trip, the lowest known commercial latency. MBI’s service between the HKEx data centre and @Tokyo-CC2 delivers data in less than 39.83 milliseconds round trip, also the lowest known commercial latency. In addition, McKay recently improved the latency its hybrid microwave/fibre service between the Singapore Exchange and @Tokyo-CC2, which
KRM22, a specialist in Enterprise, Regulatory and Market Risk Management solutions for capital markets companies, has launched its Market Risk solution on its SaaS-based Global Risk Platform.
KRM22 says the Global Risk Platform creates significant cost savings for customers and allows Futures Clearing Merchants (FCM), asset managers, broker dealers and hedge funds to significantly enhance pre-trade, at-trade and post-trade risk management.
By leveraging KRM22’s “Global/Local” deployment architecture, market risk managers can calculate real-time pre-trade and at trade analytics by account and portfolio showing margin sensitivities, “Greek calculations”, NetLiq values and P&L performance with low latency and high performance. Sophisticated post-trade stressing for volatility and pricing are available on equities, futures, options and FX. Firm-wide, portfolio and account-based value at risk (VaR)
Dun & Bradstreet and Quantexa have announced a new partnership that aims to empower businesses to make better, context driven decisions using innovative data and analytics to provide a detailed picture of connected relationships.
Global commercial data & analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet, and Quantexa, a contextual decision intelligence software and solutions company, have joined forces to help identify and tackle financial crime by providing market-leading data and network analytics to help firms stay compliant in today’s regulatory environment.
By connecting Dun & Bradstreet’s rich corporate insights data with Quantexa’s contextual decision intelligence platform, the partnership will enable an enhanced
Natixis Investment Managers has selected ALPIMA for web-based portfolio design, optimisation and visualisation within its Solutions group.
Offered as an enhanced version of its cloud-based enterprise service, the ALPIMA platform will be delivered on a white-label basis and configured specifically to meet Natixis Investment Managers requirements.
Pierre Mendelsohn (pictured), ALPIMA’s Founder and CEO, says: “We are delighted to work closely with the Natixis Investment Managers team. Their forward-thinking approach, solutions mindset and deep derivatives expertise are second to none. We are proud to help Natixis Investment Managers accelerate the digitisation of their business and deliver on their client-centric vision.”
Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate event data to institutional investors, has launched corporate event data on the Open:FactSet Marketplace.
Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada DataFeed offers more than 40 corporate event types including earnings announcements, earnings revisions, dividend dates, option expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and investor-related conferences. Easily accessible via FactSet’s online platform for testing and purchase, the events cover over 7,500 global equities.
The Enchilada DataFeed can help institutional investors and traders avoid surprises caused by an event- triggered swing in a stock’s price by allowing them to access all the updated events and event changes alongside bespoke
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) has launched State Street MediaStats Macro Linkages, a new set of quantitative investment insights derived from digital media.
First launched in 2016 with State Street partner MKT MediaStats, LLC, the new solution collects unstructured data from tens of thousands of curated media sources in order to quantify leading indicators of market behaviour with respect to price and risk across global equity and foreign exchange markets.
“Better access to information influences the way investors behave and academic research shows that economic linkages play a vital role in asset pricing and security co-movement,” says Will Kinlaw (pictured), head
Harmonate, a data services platform for funds, has launched a full-scale deployment of its latest data operations platform for funds.
Harmonate says the platform can provide 20 per cent cost savings in year one of implementation, and 80 per cent savings in ensuing years. Harmonate has also demonstrated a capability to reduce reporting delivery timelines by more than 80 per cent.
“Harmonate now provides funds with agile yet exceptionally strong software architecture and services for data operations,” says Kevin Walkup, President and COO of Harmonate. “Our systems, and the combination of both the soft and technical skills needed to
Scorechain, a crypto-tracking and risk management solutions provider, has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, which is able to detect fraud patterns, in its Anti-Money Laundering cryptocurrency transaction monitoring software.
The AI feature aims to provide a more accurate risk-scoring for cryptocurrencies activity with more sophisticated blockchain services identification.
Scorechain Artificial Intelligence (SCai) allows the platform to predict the type of service a group of addresses stands for. The scalable model has given more than 92 per cent accurate predictions during the validation phase.
SCai predicts entity types when it is related to darkweb marketplaces, gambling, mixing
Estera Bermuda’s Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) team has sponsored the listing of the Hexagon II Reinsurance DAC notes.
The Hexagon II Reinsurance DAC listing is the third EU domiciled ILS deal on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) in 2019. It follows the Estera sponsored listing of EUR45 million Atmos Re DAC notes and GBP75 million Baltic PCC notes from Ireland and the UK respectively. To date, there have been six ILS notes originating from foreign issuers listed on the BSX in 2019. Estera has listed all the deals originating in EU and UK.
The Cover Group sponsored the Hexagon II
MTS, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, has launched the first designated electronic trading platform for Euro-denominated Cypriot government bonds.
The addition of Cyprus to MTS’s interdealer market, MTS Cash, increases the number of countries on the market to 21. From 18 November 2019, primary dealers will be able to electronically trade Cypriot debt on MTS Cash, which offers a liquid, transparent and efficient European bond marketplace with real-time pricing from its central limit order book. MTS has been operating electronic fixed income markets for 30 years, developing technological expertise in both government and corporate debt market operations.
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