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MTS Markets International, part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has enhanced its MTS BondsPro corporate bond trading platform with list trading functionality, enabling participants to benefit from the efficiencies of executing many trades simultaneously.
The tool will streamline traders’ ability to execute trades against more than USD17 billion of real-time resting corporate bond liquidity on MTS BondsPro.
After uploading a list of orders to MTS BondsPro, participants can connect with multiple liquidity sources in the platform’s anonymous all-to-all order book and execute on the best price for each trade. List trading delivers significant efficiency benefits to a
BeQuant, a cryptocurrency exchange for institutions and active traders, has launched allowing users to invest in numerous crypto asset classes.
BeQuant’s core product is partnered with established technology Multiexchange who aggregates liquidity and works with large institutions such as HitBTC. By partnering with Multiexchange, BeQuant will be offering access to real liquidity of over USD150 million in average daily traded volume.
The platform’s core matching engine is a preeminent technology, offering traders a wide range of features including real-time clearing and cutting-edge order matching algorithms. The technology will appeal to market-makers, quantitative desks and active traders looking to connect
Eze Software, a global provider of investment technology, has expanded its best execution offering with Trade Informatics’ (TI) Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading tool (START), a broker neutral automated intelligent trading engine.
Backed by TI’s advanced pre-trade transaction cost analytics, START helps firms align investment and trading strategies and seek out better execution opportunities across brokers’ direct market access routes and dark pools. The engine’s broker-neutral, logic-based trading aims to improve performance, manage costs, and allow control of and transparency into the execution strategy.
Eze Investment Suite OMS/EMS users can choose START from their dashboards as they
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the FICC data analytics company, has added real-time analytics for interest rate swaps to its MSX platform.
Live in one of the world’s largest banks, MSX now provides real-time analytics for swaps denominated in US dollar, sterling, euro, and Scandinavian currencies, which make up the majority of the USD2.1 trillion a day interest rate swaps market.
Developed by Mosaic’s team of expert data scientists, the new swaps analytics service allows banks to combine their electronic and voice traded swaps transaction data into a single view.
Additional features include advanced risk analysis, which allows banks
Omniex, a complete investment and trading platform for institutional investors to access crypto-assets, has appointed former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Sheila Bair to its Board of Advisors.
In addition, the firm has hired former Thomson Reuters and KCG executives to further accelerate global adoption of its market-ready platform already in use by early clients.
Levitt was the twenty-fifth and longest-serving Chairman of the SEC from 1993-2001. He currently serves as a Board Member at Bloomberg and Motif Investing, an Advisory Board Member of KCG, and
Crescent Crypto Asset Management, a cryptocurrency index fund manager led by Goldman Sachs alumni, has completed its Series A financing and launched its offshore Cayman fund.
FBG Capital led the fundraising round with its investment into Crescent, bringing invaluable connections and industry knowledge to Crescent.
Utilising its strong global presence, FBG is focused on helping Crescent grow assets under management for its suite of passive funds both in the US and abroad. In addition, FBG will leverage its network to help Crescent develop and list multi-coin products on traditional financial exchanges.
Uses of the capital also include expanding
London Block Exchange (LBX) is to list Nano (NANO) on its exchange from 15 August this year, and is giving away GBP5,000-worth of the currency to mark the occasion.
The listing will be LBX’s 12th cryptocurrency, and the world’s first GBP pairing for the coin, billed as one of the fastest ever created with zero transfer fees.
In celebration, Nano and LBX have partnered to create a cryptic treasure hunt in the UK Capital, releasing clues in the run up to official listing.
The first person to find the treasure’s ‘location’ and the associated password and post their
Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services (NTHFS) has been appointed as fund administrator for ExodusPoint Capital Management. NTHFS will provide fund administration, risk services and liquidity solutions for the New York-based multi-manager platform, with portfolio management teams investing more than USD8 billion across equity and fixed income strategies.
“Given our platform’s significant trading volumes, breadth of products, and need for scale, ExodusPoint requires an administrator with superior technology and broad expertise,” says Enrico Corsalini, Chief Operating Officer of ExodusPoint. “Ultimately, it was Northern Trust’s combination of technology, expertise in supporting complex businesses, strong client relationships and flexible service model that led
Outsourced trading: a growing trend
Ayrton Senna was arguably the greatest Formula 1 racing driver of all time but he never needed to worry about the brake systems or the engine firing on all cylinders. His job was to get behind the wheel and drive faster than the competition.
By analogy, today’s hedge fund manager has increasingly come to recognise that there is no point trying to handle every aspect of running a hedge fund. A range of tasks, from compliance and middle-office reporting to administration and IT services are being outsourced so that the portfolio manager can focus on
QuantHouse, an independent provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has added Actant’s derivative trading solutions to the QuantHouse API Ecosystem.
Actant’s trading solutions deliver algorithmic programming flexibility and control to proprietary trading firms, market makers, investment banks and hedge funds trading the world’s major derivative and equity exchanges.
By combining their automated trading services with QuantHouse’s market data and underlying infrastructure, Actant can now offer fully hosted solutions globally, while QuantHouse API Ecosystem participants can access advanced derivative and risk analytics services in real-time, via a single API.
