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big xyt, an independent provider of high-volume market data analytics has launched Consolidated View, an extension of the market analysis metrics available to all members of the investment community from the Liquidity Cockpit platform and 250days website dashboard.
The new views allow access to a standardised independent view of the trading activity across the equity and ETF trading landscape in Europe.
big xyt clients, including multiple global exchanges and investment banks, have increasingly been using detailed information and analytics from the Liquidity Cockpit as a reference to validate their trading performance to their clients. By allowing complimentary access via 250days.com
CAIS, a financial technology platform connecting financial advisors with alternative investments, is partnering with Private Client Resources (PCR) to streamline the delivery of analytics-ready data for independent financial advisors and fund managers.
“The CAIS Platform is constantly seeking solutions to improve access and usage of alternative investments for independent advisors,” says CAIS President Tim Shannon. “We are pleased with PCR’s ability to automate previously challenging reporting processes for advisors and managers. PCR has normalised over 8,000 of our advisor end-client accounts to make this alternative investment data useable in the adviser’s reporting, analytics, or accounting software.”
PCR’s integration partnership
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform of EEX Group, operated by Powernext, has introduced spot and futures contracts for the Spanish Virtual Balancing Point (PVB).
Physical spot products (Within-Ahead, Day-Ahead and Week-End contracts) and physically delivered futures contracts (Month, Quarter, Season and Calendar Year products) are now available for trading and will lead to the delivery of natural gas at the PVB hub, which is operated by ENAGAS. All transactions are cleared through European Commodity Clearing, the central clearing house of the EEX Group.
On Wednesday 19 June, a first trade was registered between Centrica Energy Trading and Danske Commodities
The financial services industry’s top priority for AI applications is data mining, according to the second annual AI Outlook Survey from Broadridge Financial Solutions.
The survey, which explores the state of AI adoption and readiness among US financial services companies, reveals that data mining (36 per cent) is followed by post-trade processing (20 per cent), market analytics (13 per cent) and trading systems (12 per cent) in the list of priorities.
Broadridge polled operations, technology and regulatory leaders from across the financial services industry for the survey and released the findings in conjunction with a white paper focused on AI
Predata, a predictive analytics company for anticipating geopolitical risk, has released a new suite of signals for US equities. The signals quantify online attention and concern to each of the eleven S&P equity sectors, as well as constituent companies and macro themes within those sectors.
Financial market participants have found success in applying the Predata suite of geopolitical risk signals to multiple asset classes, including FX and commodities, but this marks the first dedicated offering for US equities. Predata customers are now able to use these new out-of-the box signals to inform their perspective on the various equity sectors, going
Refinitiv has made a strategic investment in alternative data platform and marketplace BattleFin forming a partnership which will provide customers with access to alternative datasets across its data platforms, including quantitative data management platform QA Direct in the Cloud.
Quants and fundamental analysts will be able to access and test different alternative datasets alongside Refinitiv’s data offerings, such as I/B/E/S Estimates, WorldScope Fundamentals, and StarMine Quantitative Models. A sub-set of Refinitiv’s proprietary content will also be made available for testing within BattleFin’s alternative data marketplace Ensemble.
Alternative datasets within Ensemble’s platform will be mapped to Refinitiv’s entity and security
Swiss data specialist SIX has partnered with SimCorp to provide financial institutions with greater global sanctions data coverage.
The partnership between SIX and SimCorp, aims to address and streamline compliance processes around sanctions, eliminating the risk of breaches, which can be damaging to financial institutions. As a result, SimCorp’s clients can now access up to date global sanctions data directly from SIX, integrated into the Compliance Manager module of SimCorp Dimension. This enables compliance officers to detect breaches against the supported sanction regimes pre and post-trade.
The Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service from SIX provides a list of entities and issued
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IHS Markit’s ClearPar service is now delivering syndicated loan trade settlement and trade funding information directly to custody systems using electronic messaging.
The advance improves accuracy at custodians and reduces the risk of penalties that arise when buyers are late in making payments on loan trades.
JP Morgan Securities Services and BlackRock are the first two organisations to benefit from the new Custodian Services Messaging solution from ClearPar which delivers electronic messages covering notice of settlement date, settlement amounts and wire instructions to custodians and trustees.
“Our messaging solution for trade funding instructions brings another layer of automation to the
Volante Technologies, a global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernisation, is providing end-to-end SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) instant payments processing as an on-demand managed service on Microsoft Azure.
Volante’s SEPA Instant Payments as a service will provide all payment service providers (PSPs) certified access to the two principal pan-European schemes, EBA CLEARING’s RT1 and ECB’s TIPS, through the high-speed, secure messaging and low-latency SIAnet network.
Powered by VolPay, Volante’s ecosystem of business services for the entire payments lifecycle, the service allows any market participant to send and receive instant payments through TIPS and RT1, avoiding costly and
