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CMC Markets, a specialist in online trading has partnered with Tradefeedr, a data science platform built for financial markets, to deploy cloud based machine learning to improve trading analytics and intelligence around liquidity management.
The additional capabilities provide for: Data integration – the ingestion, cleansing and store of massive amounts of market and transactional data; data exploration – high performance computing infrastructure for inspecting, intersecting and querying massive data sets. Also data visualisation tools and APIs for extracting the results of analysis for further analysis; and machine learning – powerful analytical tools for data driven decision making. And transparent models,
Nasdaq Commodities is planning to offer Day Ahead Auction Markets for Electricity in Germany, France and the Nordics alongside the existing Power Futures contracts.
The implementation of Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management (CACM) aims at promoting effective competition in the generation, trading and supply of electricity. By combining Auction and Futures markets on a consolidated platform, Nasdaq is aiming for increased customer benefits with lower fees and higher market efficiency.
“The new regulatory landscape is creating an opportunity to provide a brand new model for power exchanges in Europe,” says Catharina Hovemyr, Head of European Commodities at Nasdaq. “CACM
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken a minority stake in AcadiaSoft, a provider of margin automation solutions for counterparties engaged in collateral management worldwide.
Along with this investment, AcadiaSoft has signed a preliminary agreement that will enable further collaboration with LCH SwapAgent on the development of new products to automate and standardise the margin process for non-cleared derivatives. AcadiaSoft and LCH SwapAgent will work together to provide global derivatives market participants with a seamless operational process for margin calculation.
“This investment by London Stock Exchange Group is a significant building block to a fully automated post-trade process for
A new entrant into the fintech space is focusing on how financial institutions collect and distribute the massive amounts of data they must process every day, with the aim of helping them achieve equally substantial savings in time, money and people resources that can be reallocated into actually building and innovating their businesses.
FyleHub is a data aggregation and distribution platform that eliminates the creation, monitoring and maintenance of complex and highly inefficient data transformation and batch processes that so many financial institutions are burdened by. Using a secure, compliant, and cloud-based solution, FyleHub enables the onboarding timeline for new data
BNY Mellon is now live with foreign exchange options, enabling clients to better hedge currency exposure and express their views on the future direction of FX markets.
BNY Mellon clients now have access to a full-service currency trading desk, offering spot, forwards, non-deliverable forwards as well as options. This offering complements an existing suite of broader FX services including FX custody, payments and hedging.
Options represent the next step as BNY Mellon builds out a comprehensive currency solutions platform following January’s announcement that the firm plans to launch an FX prime brokerage service.
The options business is being
CRYPTALGO, an institutional crypto-trading and brokerage firm, has appointed Ed Mount, the Co-Founder of Elysium Technology Group, and crypto expert Jon Matonis to its Advisory Board.
Ed Mount joins as Chief Adviser, Trading Technologies. Prior to launching Elysium Technology Group, Ed was Managing Director and Global Head of Electronic FX Trading at Nomura and Royal Bank of Scotland. He specialises in automated database technologies, including distributed ledgers/blockchain and their application to foreign exchange, futures and cryptocurrency trading, risk management and workflow processing.
Jon Matonis is Former Executive-Director and Co-Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and served as Special Adviser on
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) has launched PAAMCO Launchpad, a co-investment platform for seeding and supporting emerging hedge funds. Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) is the inaugural PAAMCO Launchpad partner.
ERS and PAAMCO believe the PAAMCO Launchpad platform will prove to be a compelling solution to help burgeoning managers with high-growth potential establish institutional-calibre firms. The ERS/PAAMCO Launchpad partnership builds on the long experience that both ERS and PAAMCO have in hedge fund investing, particularly with early-stage managers.
By combining their vast resources, experience and investment capital, ERS and PAAMCO believe they can provide a meaningful opportunity to
Sanlam Multi Management International (SMMI), part of Sanlam Investments, has chosen the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) to consolidate and streamline its investment management processes.
The Multi Manager business will use the cloud-based solution for portfolio management.
Sanlam’s multi-manager team will have a centralised view for model comparison, with enhanced workflows for greater efficiency, oversight and scalability. Combining data from custodial and Linked Investments Service Provider (LISP) sources will enable integrated portfolio construction capabilities.
“Bringing our investment management processes onto one platform gives our multi-manager team a single interface to construct portfolios and models, complete
Hyannis Port Research (HPR), a provider of advanced capital markets infrastructure (CMI) technologies, has expanded its market access platform to include support for the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connects.
With the move, HPR becomes the first firm to provide trading access through the platforms using an ultra-high-performance pre-trade risk gateway.
HPR’s platform includes its two pre-trade risk products for low latency market access: Riskbot and Softbot. Both provide over 50 highly customisable risk parameters, ranging from pre-trade fat-finger checks to full organisation-wide portfolio risk checks. Approximately 15 per cent of the Australian market’s equity volume and 10
Steele Compliance Solutions (Steele) has acquired TransparINT, a technology company harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) technology to provide the next generation of compliance tools.
TransparINT’s negative news monitoring application uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to filter vast quantities of unstructured data from millions of sources to identify risk potential efficiently. This acquisition creates a unprecedented combination of software technology and human plus artificial intelligence, all designed to deliver an industry-leading set of compliance and risk mitigation tools.
TransparINT’s proprietary AI engine harnesses over 5 million sources to compile risk records on over 43 million entities and individuals
