Trading Technologies International, a global provider of professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions for hedge funds, proprietary traders, brokers, money managers, and CTAs, has partnered with Eurex Frankfurt to offer direct access to the Eurex EnLight selective request-for-quote (RFQ) solution from within the TT platform. 

CLST, an institutional peer-to-peer lending platform for digital assets, has appointed Roshan Robert as its President & COO effective February 2023. Robert will be joining as a co-founder to lead the expansion of the company and to enhance the product offering to cater for a wider range of institutional credit requirements. 

Fund and corporate services provider ZEDRA, has completed the integration and rebrand of Atlas Fund Services, which it acquired in November 2022, to ZEDRA. The new ZEDRA team in Charlotte, North Carolina and Curaçao will service both seasoned and emerging managers of hedge and private equity funds based in the US and throughout Latin America. 

BitMEX, one of the first derivatives cryptocurrency exchanges catering for institutional and professional traders, has partnered with Onramper to streamline fiat-to-crypto transactions, allowing users to buy cryptocurrencies directly via a single API.

Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, is to launch the Cboe One Options Feed, on 1 March, 2023, subject to regulatory approval, providing a real-time view of US options pricing derived from the largest US options exchange operator.

SteelEye and LeapXpert have partnered to help financial firms combat the risks associated with the use of unauthorised communications channels. The moves comes as the SEC recently stepped up its probe into the use of messaging platforms such as WhatsApp at big name hedge funds including Point72 Asset Management and Citadel. Last year, $2 billion in eComms fines were handed out to Wall Street firms for failures in preventing employees from communicating on channels that were not being monitored for compliance with FCA, ESMA, SEC, FINRA, and CFTC rules aimed at detecting insider trading, unlawful information sharing, and other forms

Transaction Network Services has launched a new standardised Dedicated Server offering, the first phase in the deployment of its new cloud platform for financial markets. The new product, designed specifically for high-performance trading, utilises TNS’ bare metal servers, as well as ultra-low latency trading connectivity through TNS Layer 1.

GCEX, a digital prime brokerage offering foreign exchange and crypto services to institutional clients, is now offering a greater choice of regulated custodians through its new partnership with Komainu, a joint venture between Nomura and digital assets companies CoinShares and Ledger.

Broadridge Financial Solutions has formed a strategic partnership with analytics solution provider Point Focal to bring Point Focal’s alternative data-driven quantitative insights to NYFIX, Broadridge’s order-routing network platform. Broadridge’s NYFIX clients will now have access to automated reports that combine relevant data, visual analytics, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and custom portfolios and watch lists, built from Point Focal’s aggregated, vetted, alternative data, delivered in digestible and actionable summaries. Current reports from Point Focal that will be available on NYFIX include a pre-market report of recent news activity and sentiment scores, earnings recaps and outlooks; a post-market report summarising portfolio

BMLL, an independent provider of historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets to banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, academics, regulators and global exchanges, has added Johannesburg Stock Exchange data across equities and ETFs to its offering.