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Avelacom has extended its low latency network and launched a new point of presence (PoP) to connect Interxion’s London data centre and Borsa Istanbul, making it easier for London’s capital markets players to enter emerging markets and exploit cross-venue arbitrage opportunities.
Interxion’s London data centre is home to an extensive financial services hub, made up of over two hundred market participants including key equity and commodity exchanges, PoPs for 12 major global execution venues as well as international banks, brokers and trading firms.
Financial markets firms using quantitative, high-speed trading strategies are now able to start trading Turkey’s capital
Bloomberg has launched standardised Total Return Swap contracts on the Bloomberg Barclays Indices, providing predefined synthetic exposure to cash bonds for the most widely-used fixed income benchmarks.
As investors seek more cost-efficient methods of trading in less-liquid credit markets, Bloomberg TRS (BTRS) offers exposure to the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Investment Grade and US High Yield Indices at minimal capital expense.
“The introduction of Bloomberg TRS will help drive down costs and risks for a broader set of market participants,” says Bloomberg's global credit and TRS business manager Paul Kaplan. "As margin, risk and post-trade capital requirements have reduced
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Omgeo ALERT solution, a global repository for storing standing settlement instruction (SSI) data, has completed enhancements to become the industry’s single and centralised SSI Utility.
With 6.6 million settlement instructions as of year-end 2016, an increase of 15 per cent over 2015, DTCC remains committed to driving the industry towards automating and replacing onerous, manual processes.
Last year, the industry’s SSI Utility also achieved another significant milestone with over one million FX and cash-based SSIs now held in ALERT, up 13.5 per cent in 2016, with a compliance rating of more than
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has welcomed RWE Supply & Trading as a market maker for the Spanish, French and Italian power futures markets.
Under the new agreement RWE Supply & Trading will promote liquidity in these markets by providing bid-offer spreads for Baseload Month, Quarter and Year contracts in the order book.
“In 2016, we made significant progress in these markets and the further support from RWE will help us to grow the liquidity, in particular in the emerging Spanish market. We very much appreciate RWE as a partner in further developing our offering for the European power
What differentiates asset managers today in the eyes of investors? Convergence is a now a common feature of asset management, with alternative and traditional asset classes now forming part of a diversified investment approach. And as technology developments proceed at a rate of knots, with artificial intelligence and machine learning having become ‘mots du jour’ in recent times, the pressure on managers of all shapes and sizes to deliver smarter performance has risen inexorably.
It was against this backdrop that Global Fund Media hosted a lively breakfast briefing last week, on Thursday, 9 March at the Reform Club in London.
IPC has launched Global Exchange Reach, a solution that enables exchanges, alternative trading systems (ATSs), multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and other liquidity venues located in one part of the world to attract order flow and distribute market data in new geographies.
The solution is already in production for Singapore Exchange (SGX) in North America where IPC manages the SGX Chicago Hub at CME Group's facility in Aurora, Illinois.
"Liquidity venues are increasingly looking to attract institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and market makers outside their primary market to fuel profitable and sustainable growth," says Anthony J Perrotta Jr (pictured), chief
By Kulvinder Gill – The technology treadmill is a tough place to be these days. Technology refresh cycles last only a mere three years, forcing firms to replace their infrastructures and make costly software and hardware upgrades on a too-frequent basis. And with hedge fund budgets tighter than ever, many firms cannot afford to stay on this path.
But the hedge fund technology treadmill is not a firm’s only option. Costly in-house, ‘traditional’ IT services have given way to more cost-effective outsourced IT and managed services that get firms off the treadmill and on a path to success.
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) subsidiary operating the Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility continues to operate as the largest legal entity identifier (LEI) issuer, by share of the total LEIs issued worldwide, in the run-up to MiFID II implementation.
It has issued more than 240,000 LEIs to entities from over 200 jurisdictions, representing approximately 50 per cent share. The GMEI utility recently received accreditation from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), which reflects that DTCC has sufficient capabilities in place to ensure high data quality in the Global LEI System (GLEIS).
In addition, SIX Securities
ThinkMarkets, a provider of forex, CFDs and financial spread betting, has enhanced its ThinkTrader mobile trading app through the implementation of Neumob’s SDK, an app acceleration framework, to reduce latency for global forex and CFD traders.
ThinkMarkets says mobile app users will see a drastic change in the performance of the platform.
Traders will be able to access the numerous functionalities on ThinkTrader, from reviewing charts and live-market-pricing to placing orders and executing trades, in a much faster manner.
The firm’s analytics and data shows that the ThinkTrader mobile app had a swifter load-speed and quicker interactions between
Quintillion Limited, the European-based affiliate of US Bancorp Fund Services, has been awarded Best UCITS Liquid Alternative Fund Administrator at the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards in London.
The awards celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of the past year among leading hedge fund managers and service providers.
“We are honoured to be recognised as the leading UCITS liquid alternative fund administrator,” says Linda Gorman (pictured), CEO of Quintillion. “We take pride in putting our strength and integrity into every relationship. Our team works diligently to understand the unique needs of our clients and provide a customised servicing solution.”
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