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Cboe Europe Equities (Cboe) is using smart data specialist big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit, which is designed to give global trading and investment firms enhanced visibility over dark and lit liquidity, and the ability to navigate and analyse European market share across a market landscape in transition.
On 3 January 2018 MiFID II regulations come into force and the major impacts on European market structure will include the imposition of caps on the amount of trading that can take place on dark venues. The market has already started to adapt to these changes as exchanges like Cboe introduce new trading services,
DMS Governance (DMS) has launched its US Regulatory Compliance services, designed to support US-based investment advisers in improving the quality and increasing the ease of compliance with their regulatory responsibilities.
The DMS’ US Regulatory Compliance services offers expert compliance staff and state-of-the-art technology to investment advisers of hedge and private equity funds, registered mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other alternative investment products. DMS is recognised globally for its successful, long-term track record and expertise in governance, risk, and compliance within the investment fund industry.
Wade Boylan, Leader, US Regulatory Compliance Services, says: “Our mission is to partner with US
Thomson Reuters has launched ESG Peer View on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a significant enhancement of its ESG data capabilities that is designed to facilitate more customisable and detailed analysis for socially responsible investing (SRI) and risk analysis.
ESG Peer View enables investment professionals to compare a set of companies or industries by individual or sets of ESG data points, thus allowing for comparative analysis relative to peers. Peer analysis can be done by industry, geography, market capitalisation, or a combination of these. By being able to evaluate a company relative to its peers, financial professionals may gain a deeper
German-based technology provider DIGITEC has released a successor product for its D3 platform, which provides pricing solutions for FX and MM trading businesses.
DIGITEC has been working closely with major banks globally to define needs and requirements for the D3 evolution. After several years of product development with the challenging objective to improve the user interface and performance, the new D3 is now ready for operation globally.
“Our new D3 application has been built from scratch and combines the best of both worlds; market know-how and software expertise. We cumulate the know-how of not just one bank, but many
Key findings from Swiss exchange SIX’s survey of Traders include the fact that 88 per cent of traders have seen a shift from active towards passive investing and 72 per cent expect the level of passive investing to rise further next year.
The exchange says that cost pressures and increased regulation continue to fuel the rise of passive investing. More than 85 per cent of traders expect a rise in passive investing could provoke change in global markets, but only 40 per cent see this development as positive for their companies.
Regulation, such as MiFID II, will be by far
Horizon Software (Horizon), a provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, is to help develop Warrant market expertise within the Vietnam market.
A key challenge was to provide business knowledge of the Covered Warrants issuing and market making business to help stimulate and support market development in Vietnam.
Horizon has provided a series of workshop presentations, which included two Hong Kong-based Warrants experts, to address Vietnamese audiences. Topics covered included market-making, Warrants marketing strategies, implementation and operational activities, IT solutions, trading operations and risk management. The workshops gave the speakers the chance to outline Horizon’s new Covered Warrant
NEX Data, which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, has launched a series of US Treasury Benchmarks to provide enhanced transparency and pricing information to the US Treasuries market.
The new benchmarks will be published at 11am, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm in the New York trading day and will reflect actual transactions and orders during the 15-minute fixing window on NEX Market’s BrokerTec platform, the industry leading anonymous dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform for the fixed income markets.
These new benchmarks use data from the market’s largest trading platform and bring increased transparency to the market
Information Publishing has acquired CapitalTrack, a data provider of Floating Rate information to the Fixed Income market.
“We are pleased to welcome the CapitalTrack clients, suppliers and team into the Information Publishing PLC family, and to be adding their first-class database – covering Floating Rate, Asset Backed and Structured Securities markets – to our expanding range of financial reference data products. This is the first of several acquisitions that we will be making to add to our datasets,” says Michael Kaufman, Chief Financial Officer, Information Publishing
CapitalTrack maintains the largest independent, on-line Repository of static and event-based operational data in
Asset and wealth management consultancy Alpha FMC has launched a new Data Solutions division to bolster its digital consultancy offering.
The creation of the division is in response to growing demand from its clients for consulting advice and data services. This service will help to increase asset managers’ capability to manage data more strategically in order to reduce operational and compliance risks and capitalise on its data assets.
A sharp increase in data flowing across increasingly complex distribution chains has compounded the challenge of harmonising ‘messy’ data from diverse sources and formats. Accurate and granular data about investors’ activity
Triple Alpha, which is built on unique trading algorithms previously available only to hedge fund clients, is to launch an ICO and create a capital fund.
The company says that an algorithm for picking the best stocks combined with a unique market-neutral strategy will aim to provide investors with returns significantly higher than the market not only when the market is growing steadily, but also during financial crises.
Thanks to the use of an exchange-traded fund (ETF), investors around the world will be able to access Triple Alpha algorithms, regardless of the amount they are going to invest.
