Options Technology, a Capital Markets services provider, has completed its 100Gb core network upgrades across all major London colocation sites. Options’ clients now benefit from the lowest-latency fixed line routes available, alongside connectivity access to all major liquidity hubs in London through diverse and resilient routes powered by Hollow-core fibre technology. Options facilitate access to hundreds of exchanges and markets worldwide, offering highly resilient and performant global colocation and connectivity services. This further reduction in latency and the vast increase in capacity reaffirms Options’ commitment to expanding its services with a host of newly available routes and latency profiles across the

Britannia Financial Group has expanded Britannia Global Markets Limited’s Prime Brokerage offering, to include the trading of FX, index and commodity CFDs. The new offering will be supported by several technology platforms, including Lucera, PrimeXM, MetaQuotes and MaxxTrader.

Blockchain specialist Quant has partnered with UST, a digital transformation solutions company, to provide technical integration and tokenisation services to central and commercial banks and capital markets participants. These services will help financial institutions adopt digital assets, as they increasingly realise the benefits of distributed ledger technologies by issuing digital money and tokenising existing asset classes for greater settlement speed and access to new markets and clients   Quant will provide the foundational technology, and UST will provide support through user interface design and integration via its Sandbox based in their London Innovation Lab. The partnership facilitates the issuance of

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has launched DTCC Report Hub assisted reporting model, allowing sell-side firms to assist their buy-side clients with regulatory reporting obligations around the world. 

International multi-asset trading platform Vantage has launched Vantage Connect, a liquidity solution for institutions and corporates in the UK in response to growing demand among hedge funds, family offices, banks, brokers, money managers and asset managers for bespoke trading solutions.

EuroCCP, a pan-European clearing house and subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Inc, has rebranded as Cboe Clear Europe with immediate effect. Cboe acquired EuroCCP on 1 July 2020.  Under Cboe’s ownership, Cboe Clear Europe has enhanced its position as a pan-European cash equities clearing house, by expanding the number of venues it provides clearing services to from 37 to 47, which provides it with access to approximately 95 per cent of all European equity trades.  In addition to its leading position clearing for venues that allow interoperable clearing, it has also seen strong growth in preferred clearing, which is used

InstrumentiX, a specialist in performance monitoring and analytics for global financial markets, and FMADIO, a 10G 40G 100G packet capture appliance vendor, have launched a new 100G Analytics platform the x-100.

Trading Technologies International, Inc, a global provider of professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, is making KRM22 Risk Manager available to customers on the TT platform. 

FundCount, a provider of accounting and investment analysis software for single and multi-family offices, fund administrators, hedge funds and private equity firms, has joined the Cyprus Investment Funds Association, the fund industry’s sole recognised body located in Cyprus.