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Neptune, the fixed income network for real-time “axe” indications, is enhancing its integration with partner TS’s TradeSmart FI.
The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from their most trusted bank counterparts.
This enables institutional investors to be more effective and targeted when looking to execute large size orders in products such as corporate and emerging market bonds.
Grant Wilson, CEO, Neptune Networks, says: “Connectivity to an EMS such as TradeSmart FI is precisely what our buy-side clients are seeking from Neptune. It provides the ability to consume an
Saxo Bank has released a new developer portal, which provides technical documentation, reference guides, sample code and interactive tools for many of the technologies which in combination underpin Saxo’s Open Banking initiative.
Saxo’s Open Banking strategy is built on the premise that going forward an increasingly broader range of partnerships and collaborations will be the new disruptive factor in the financial industry.
As part of this vision, Saxo has made its multi-asset trading infrastructure available to a wide ecosystem of third-party developers, fintechs, vendors and partners, enabling them to connect their enterprises directly to Saxo’s complete trading
Colt Technology Services is to launch newly optimised low-latency network routes linking stock exchanges in Tokyo and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which will be available from 23 May 2017.
Connectivity will be provided through the company’s private Ethernet-based Colt IQ Network.
Latency between Tokyo and Chicago will reach a speed of 121.07ms between each endpoint after network optimisation. In addition, the company has commenced optimisation of other key routes in the Asia-Pacific region.
The new optimisations will benefit traders in Chicago who require fast connectivity to Tokyo, or exchange venues in Tokyo that require low-latency connectivity to
Now that you have a handle on the nightmare scenario and understand the importance of fostering a culture of security across your investment firm, here are four steps to guide you through the creation of that culture.
1. Create a computer incident response team
Start by creating a “Computer Incident Response Team” who will oversee your information-security policies. Although IT professionals are responsible for overseeing and maintaining your computing infrastructure, you also need business users to play a central role in your security initiatives. After all, they’re the ones who use these resources – and the ones who can
MainstreamBPO has executed sale agreements to acquire Trinity Fund Administration in Ireland and the Cayman Islands.
Privately owned Trinity currently provides administrative, transfer agency, company register, corporate secretarial, risk and regulatory reporting and other ancillary services to over 140 funds and investment vehicles incorporated in a variety of jurisdictions.
The acquisition will increase MainstreamBPO’s client base and funds under administration. Trinity currently services or administers assets in the region of USD7 billion.
Trinity was founded in 1993 by CEO John McCann, and has received recognition from the international funds industry on numerous occasions including being awarded the
Pan-European exchange group Euronext has launched Euronext Fund Service Paris, which draws on its experience with Euronext Fund Service in Amsterdam.
Brieuc Louchard (pictured), business development manager, ETFs and funds at Euronext, says the aim of this project is to encourage asset management companies to list their open-ended funds – UCITS, AIF or passported in France – drawn from all strategies, on the exchange.
“The way we designed this service is that it is open to anyone from retail investors to institutional investors and corporates,” Louchard says.
“It is a new market segment from scratch, designed to
Acuity Trading and Dow Jones have formed a partnership to launch a visual news analytics tool for traders.
Now in beta, the new tool – called Acuity Visual Edge, Powered by Dow Jones – features displays of news sentiment from Dow Jones and Acuity Trading news sources, offering traders visual cues to better understand market trends and stimulate trade ideas.
The tool showcases some emerging ways in which news can be used to aid trading decisions, and leverages the new Dow Jones DNA platform that launched in beta in April.
“News is an incredibly rich source of data
The value of funds being administered in Jersey rose to a record level at the end of 2016, the latest figures published by the jurisdiction’s financial regulator show.
In the final quarter of 2016, the total value of funds being serviced through Jersey rose by 15 per cent over the year to stand at GBP260 billion (USD335 billion), the highest value ever recorded.
This growth was driven by the alternative asset classes, which increased annually by the same proportion to GBP189.2 billion (USD243.8 billion), representing almost three quarters (73 per cent) of Jersey’s total funds activity.
Within
IPC Systems, a provider of communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, is collaborating with OneAsia, a provider of connectivity, data centre, managed cloud and technology infrastructure services in Asia, to equip investors with the connectivity and technology for participation in the Chinese financial markets.
“IPC has a strong presence in the Chinese financial markets,” says David Dodd, SVP and managing director, Asia-Pacific, IPC. “Our relationship with OneAsia allows us to provide IPC’s global community with connectivity to the growing Chinese capital markets with both domestic and international connectivity solutions.”
Via the partnership, the IPC Financial
Elsen, a platform-as-a-service company for large financial institutions, is to support the launch of QA Point, a new Thomson Reuters product built on its cloud-based platform, in the Asia Pacific region.
QA Point, the first commercially available product built on the Elsen nPlatform, was introduced to the North American market in May.
As a result of positive feedback in North America, Thomson Reuters has accelerated its launch across Asia, introducing the product months ahead of schedule.
“We’ve been able to accomplish some major feats with Thomson Reuters in a relatively short period,” says Zac Sheffer (pictured), founder
