Algorithmic trading

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Whitehall Capital now able to hold assets in tokenised form

Whitehall Capital is pleased to announce a new and innovative approach to holding investments within its specialist bridge financing fund, ‘Whitehall Capital Management Limited’ (‘Whitehall’ or ‘the ‘Fund’). Whitehall Capital has struck an agreement with US-based digital asset securities marketplace, Securitize, enabling investors in the specialist Whitehall fund to hold their assets in a tokenized form. Using the Securitize platform, Whitehall investors will now be able to buy and sell units in the Fund, trading their holdings with other investors. Whitehall Capital is the first UK-based company to engage with Securitize in this way.

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BIS: Quantifying the HFT 'arms race'

We use stock exchange message data to quantify the negative aspect of high-frequency trading, known as "latency arbitrage". This means arbitrage opportunities that are sufficiently mechanical and obvious that capturing them is primarily a contest in speed.

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BaFin sets out supervisory principles for Big Data and AI

On 15 June 2021, BaFin published supervisory principles for the use of algorithms in decision-making processes by financial institutions.

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Pragma hires former AWS executive as new CTO

Pragma, the independent algorithmic trading technology provider that leverages artificial intelligence for equities and foreign exchange trading, has appointed Steve Cooper as its new Chief Technology Officer.

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Citi launches algorithmic trading platform for listed derivatives

Citi has launched a new suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives.

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Pragma releases execution algorithms with "deep-learning" capabilities for equity trading

Pragma, the independent algorithmic trading technology provider, has launched a new generation of deep-learning enabled execution algorithms.

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AlgoTrader team up with AiX Trade

We are very pleased to announce our new partnership with UK-based AiX, a best-in-class, fully automated OTC desk for aggregating market makers.

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Deutsche Börse closes Quantitative Brokers acquisition

Deutsche Börse has completed the purchase of a majority position in Quantitative Brokers LLC. The transaction was announced in September and closed on 1 December.

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Score Priority buys Lightspeed's HFT assets

Score Priority Corp. (“Score Priority”), a financial technology and brokerage firm offering an institutional-grade experience to individual, professional, and institutional investors and traders, has completed its acquisition of the Lime low latency execution platform from Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC.

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Apex:E3 launches Algorithmic Trading Competition between Oxford and Cambidge undergrads

APEX:E3, a leading provider of multi-asset analytics for retail and institutional investors, has today announced the launch of an Algorithmic Trading Competition between students from the University of Oxford and Cambridge.

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Bitfinex launches market data feed for algo trading

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital asset trading platform, has launched Bitfinex Terminal, a real-time market data feed to power algorithmic trading, available via Dazaar.

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Deutsche Börse acquires Quantitative Brokers

Deutsche Börse is acquiring a majority interest in Quantitative Brokers, an independent provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures, options and interest rate markets.

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FSMB issues statement of good practice on algorithmic trading

The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published a new Statement of Good Practice on Algorithmic Trading in FICC Markets as a transparency draft for market consultation.

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CQG licenses Blue Trading Systems software assets

CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance technology solutions for traders, brokers, commercial hedgers, and exchanges, today announced that it has just completed a transaction to license certain software assets from Blue Trading Systems (BTS).

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Ping An models wins AI algorithm competition

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. announced that the computer vision object detection model developed by Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) has set a new record in the PASCAL VOC Challenge, one of the most authoritative competitions in the world to assess the design and innovation capabilities of AI algorithms.

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FMSB publishes Spotlight Review on algorithmic trading and machine learning

The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today published its first Spotlight Review, looking at emerging themes and challenges in algorithmic trading and machine learning.

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Pico goes co-lo at Japan Exchange Group

Pico, the leading provider of technology services for the financial markets community, today announced further APAC expansion with the launch of a new managed co-location facility for Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (JPX).

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Triad Securities adds BestEx execution algos

Triad Securities, a full-service, agency-only brokerage firm, today announced a new partnership with BestEx Research Group that will allow Triad’s clients to access BestEx’s newly-launched, next-generation algorithmic trading platform.

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Colt cuts latency between Tokyo and Hong Kong stock exchange

Colt Technology Services, a leading provider of agile, high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced that it has succeeded in reducing latency between Tokyo and Hong Kong stock exchanges substantially, realising the fastest connectivity between these two regions.

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Blockchain.com releases API for crypto traders

Blockchain.com, the leading provider of cryptocurrency products including the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has launched a trading API for cryptocurrency traders to access the deep liquidity and fastest matching engine in crypto on the Blockchain.com Exchange using automated trading algorithms.