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QuantHouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), today announced that they are partnering with SpiderRock Gateway Technologies.
SpiderRock Gateway Technologies has added its proprietary data & analytics service including implied volatility and option prints to the 150-plus data sources available through QuantHouse’s API.
SpiderRock Gateway Technologies provides option analytics as a service delivered in a normalised binary format. As part of this offering, SpiderRock delivers implied volatility, greeks, risk slides, and volatility surfaces across US-listed equity and futures derivatives in a real-time feed that
A money market fund managed by asset manager Insight Investment has completed its first repo trade cleared via a central counterparty, providing investors in the fund with access to a fresh pool of liquidity and marking a further milestone in the structural development of the liquidity market.
Back in 2017, Insight, on behalf of its clients, became the first asset manager to clear on LCH’s RepoClear service, acting on behalf of a UK pension fund client.
This latest trade, placed by the GBP£24 billion Insight GBP Liquidity Fund, was cleared by the RepoClear ‘Sponsored Clearing’ service operated by global
In consultation with almost 70 local and global fund managers, stock exchange, Chi-X Australia, has launched MatchPoint, a new market-on-close trading solution.
MatchPoint allows market participants to place anonymous orders, with minimum execution size protection, between 10:00am and 4:20pm. It will only execute at the closing price and therefore provides traders and investors with greater certainty that their orders, when executed, will fill without market impact.
Chi-X Australia Chief Executive Officer Vic Jokovic says: “With the Australian closing auction trending towards 25 per cent of the day’s volume, MatchPoint was developed to provide a flexible and competitively priced product
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence, has launched a new program giving its members access to background checks provided by Intelligo, a specialist in technology-driven background checks.
This new IMDDA member-only program provides access to Intelligo’s platform, Clarity, which leverages a combination of AI and human intellect to enhance the quality and depth of background checks. Intelligo Clarity reduces report generation time and eliminates paperwork with online SaaS reporting.
“IMDDA is committed to helping members implement best practices throughout the due diligence process,” says Andrew
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has set out a new roadmap of investment for its market data feed, SuperFeed.
Vela’s SuperFeed delivers high-quality normalised real-time market data, with industry-leading levels of performance, availability and reliability as demanded by today’s trading applications. Offering a unique blend of fast delivery and scalability, SuperFeed has broad market coverage across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
Vela will be increasing access points to SuperFeed with new in-region data centres in Asia and expanding content with over 60 new venues including all major APAC exchanges
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has outlined a vision for institutional trade processing that realises the goal of straight-through processing by eliminating inefficient manual touch points.
In a new white paper “Re-Imagining Post-Trade: No-Touch Processing Within Reach,” DTCC explains the need for the new approach and lays out a path for achieving no-touch processing, including the most effective way to leverage existing infrastructure.
“We have a plan to create an open, integrated and resilient post-trade infrastructure that eliminates redundancies and manual processing across an increasing set
B-PIPE, Bloomberg’s flagship real-time market data feed, will now be available to clients globally in the cloud through Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Building on the initial launch of B-PIPE in the cloud for US-based clients, Bloomberg will work with AWS to support customers around the world to gain immediate and reliable access to real-time market data.
B-PIPE will be available in the cloud for Bloomberg Enterprise clients across North America, Europe, and Asia via AWS and is one of the only cloud native real-time data products suitable for capital markets use cases. The service will provide access to the
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) and Eagle Investment Systems (Eagle), a BNY Mellon company and part of Data and Analytics Solutions, have partnered to help firms comply with the new 2020 Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS).
The firms believe that ACA’s GIPS compliance consulting and verification expertise, combined with Eagle’s technology platform and Eagle Managed Services, provides an end-to-end solution that helps firms manage the GIPS composite maintenance and verification process. Together, ACA and Eagle provide a 2020 GIPS-compliant programme, from policy and procedure development and updates, composite creation and maintenance, and disclosure reporting, to firm-wide verification.
The combined approach begins with ACA providing consulting to the
Reference data specialists SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has launched a cloud-based security reference data service to simplify and enable firms to meet the European Union’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requirements.
SFTR reporting obligations, which are due to begin next year, require banks and investment firms to start reporting Securities Financing Transactions (SFT) to a registered Trade Repository beginning 14 April, 2020. Each transaction report must include the details of the transaction, the counterparties and the specifics of the security involved and many firms are now focused on preparing for that date.
In order to provide an accurate,
Proprietary trading firm Jump Liquidity, which provide bespoke liquidity to counterparties, has joined BidFX, an EMS for FX market.
BidFX CRO, John McGrath, says: “With the rapid expansion of BidFX we are happy to see Jump Liquidity join our EMS in response to high client demand. Their tailored liquidity will enrich the liquidity provision of our platform and provide a bespoke solution for many clients “.
Jump Liquidity’s Head of Distribution, Europe Harry Kent, says: “Jump is one of the largest market makers in FX central limit order books and ECNs and we’re excited to continue that trend in our direct business
