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By George Ralph, RFA – How do firms retain 100% of their clients? Firstly, when clients have put their trust into your business and agreed to work with you, that’s just the start of the journey. Many businesses see winning the client as the end goal. Instead see this as the beginning of a long partnership and take a systematic approach to onboarding new clients, which means less errors, and a professional service delivered both before and after the client signs up with you.
A specialist should work through a set of steps starting with initial data gathering, to create
TradesParent, a provider of Commodity Management Solutions, has become a registered service provider with CME Group to help extend regulatory reporting capabilities for the commodity processing and trading community.
“We are pleased to work with TradesParent to provide the global commodity community with a well-integrated trade reporting solution,” says Jonathan Thursby (pictured), Executive Director & Global Head of CME Group Global Repository Services. “The TradesParent Commodity Management Cloud Solution’s innovative technologies and analytics are the key to unlocking value and helping our mutual customers to achieve regulatory compliance.”
Designed and built by commodity professionals for the commodity industry, the
StarCompliance, a provider of enterprise compliance and regulatory software solutions for the financial services industry, has secured an investment from Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, to support its global growth strategy.
StarCompliance’s software platform helps financial services institutions manage, prevent, detect, report and resolve employee conflicts of interest by providing an unmatched 360-degree view of employee activity across the enterprise. StarCompliance’s platform monitors critical regulated employee activities such as personal trading, gifts and entertainment, political contributions and outside business activities to ensure ongoing compliance and mitigate the operational and reputational risk of non-compliance.
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Pragma, a multi-asset quantitative trading technology provider, has enhanced Pragma360’s algorithmic suite to support triangulation of cross pair trading.
The new functionality, created in response to client demand, allows traders to trade cross-pairs through triangulation to achieve better prices. By splitting the trade across more liquid currency pairs then triangulating the liquidity through a common base currency, it allows the benefits of algorithmic trading to extend to less liquid cross pairs.
According to Greenwich Associates, real-money investors and corporate treasuries that commonly need to trade these illiquid pairs overwhelmingly value best execution and price above other factors when it comes
By George Ralph, RFA – We all know that cyber-attacks are not only more prevalent but they are increasing in ferocity, becoming ever more ambitious and overt. The latest culprits, Petya and WannaCry both used phishing attacks to spread malware through networks, and Petya rendered the user’s computer inoperable and gave hackers full access to the usernames and passwords stolen from the computer.
Here is a set of top tips to prevent your firm being an easy target for cybercriminals:
1) Get your paperwork in order
Documented policies and procedures safeguard business data, systems and networks and allow you to
Below is an excerpt from Eze Castle’s whitepaper, Is Hybrid Cloud Right For Your Firm?.
Download the full whitepaper here.
With its security, privacy, and performance, the private cloud has been the go-to option for financial and investment firms that require enterprise-caliber IT infrastructure. In most cases, that private cloud is professionally managed by a service provider solely focused on monitoring, managing, and maintaining that infrastructure to meet business requirements and compliance directives. Thus, firms benefit from seasoned, industry-experienced professionals who live and breathe financial IT.
For many firms, so-called public cloud infrastructures offer compelling opportunities and advantages. For
NEX Data has launched the ‘EBS FX Benchmarks’, a series of 30-minute FX fixings. The new fixings went live on 26 July 2017 and enhance the variety of global benchmarks available, bringing increased transparency to all FX market participants.
The EBS FX Benchmarks are based on actual transactions and orders during the ten minute fixing window on NEX Markets’ EBS FX central limit order book. The fixings are published 24 hours a day, five days a week and include the full list of core EBS currencies (see list below). This ensures that the rates are the most reliable and transparent
big xyt, a independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has launched Liquidity Cockpit, which is designed to give global trading and investment firms enhanced visibility over dark and lit liquidity.
It also provides the ability to navigate and analyse European market share across a fragmented and dynamic market landscape.
With the anticipated MiFID II dark volumes caps coming into force and the rise in Large in Scale (LIS) trading activity, equity market participants need to recognise LIS classified trades, track market share and navigate interactions across different liquidity pools.
The big xyt Liquidity Cockpit provides
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its tick history data service, Tick History 2.0, to provide the financial industry with a powerful tool for developing algorithmic and systematic trading strategies and assist in meeting MiFID II requirements in 2018.
The solution assists institutions in complying with MiFID II, by incorporating additional reference data fields to capture the new data sources and venues under MiFID II.
Tick History 2.0 provides greater breadth and depth of historical time series, a wider range of content sets and improved search functionality. Data is recorded from Thomson Reuters Elektron Real Time Feeds covering both OTC and
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its integrated buy-side trading workflow solution by delivering interoperability between its financial markets desktop Eikon and REDI execution management system.
The milestone follows Thomson Reuters acquisition of REDI in January this year and the recent expansion of the Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger community to REDI clients.
With this new development, Thomson Reuters customers can now benefit from interoperability between REDI’s best-in-class trading capabilities and Eikon’s pre-trade content and functionality to support their trading workflow. Thomson Reuters has also integrated Elektron market data into the execution management system so that customers can leverage the same market
