Latest Trade execution News: Finextra Research

Euronext selects Horizon Software trading platform

Horizon Software has been selected by Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, for monitoring and pricing derivatives instruments in real-time and to calculate and disseminate settlement prices on an intra-day basis.

13 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

LCH.Clearnet appoints Steve Briscoe group head of technology and operations

LCH.Clearnet Group (“LCH.Clearnet”), the global clearing house, is today pleased to announce that Steve Briscoe has been appointed as the new Group Head of Technology and Operations.

13 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Saxo Bank adds stock options to white-label asset trading platform

Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, today announces the expansion of its white label offering with the introduction of stock options from April 2015.

13 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

IG Group launches Apple Watch app

IG Group has announced it is one of the first online trading providers to launch an app for the Apple Watch, reflecting the company’s commitment to providing the latest in cutting edge technology to help clients trade international markets.

10 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Vichara Technologies adds senior execs to quants team

Vichara Technologies, Inc., a leading capital markets technology firm specializing in analytics, valuation, modeling, risk management, stress testing and regulatory compliance solutions, today announced the expansion of its quantitative team with the appointment of two senior executives - Keith Weintraub as managing director and Praveen Mehrotra as head of equities & equity derivatives solutions.

10 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

LME appoints Andrew Dodsworth head of market operations

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Dodsworth as Head of Market Operations.

10 April 2015

News/Trade execution

Bats to close its doors to thinly-traded stocks

Bats Global Trading is to close its doors to illiquid stocks, in an initiative intended to address fragmentation of pricing for issuers of thinly-traded securities.

10 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Ergon Capital Management selects OneTick tick data management platform

OneMarketData, LLC , the founders of OneTick, a single solution for event stream processing (CEP) and tick data management, today announced that Ergon Capital Management, LLC, an Austin, Texas based company that builds market technology solutions and quantitative trading models, has selected OneTick as its tick data management platform.

09 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

SunGard launches US transfer agency utility

To address the changing dynamics of the fund services industry, SunGard is expanding its transfer agency capabilities by adding a full-service industry utility offering to its managed services suite.

09 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Regis-TR exceeds three billion reports

In April the number of reports received by REGIS-TR, the European trade repository owned by Clearstream (Deutsche Börse) and Iberclear (BME), exceeded 3 billion, three times the number of reports that were received in October of last year.

09 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

KDB Daewoo Securities Hong Kong chooses Ullink’s e-trading platform for HFT clients

Ullink, a global provider of market leading electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community and Daewoo Securities Hong Kong, a leading full-service investment firm, today announced that Daewoo has chosen Ullink’s electronic trading platform to provide a low latency solution for its High Frequency Trading (HFT) clients.

09 April 2015

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EBS Select goes live in beta

EBS, Icap’s market-leading electronic FX business, announces today that EBS Select, its non-disclosed, segmented, bilateral liquidity pool, has gone live with a beta version, with the first trade completed on 24 March 2015.

08 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Nasdaq to take on KBW index family

Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Keefe Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a Stifel company (SF), today announced a partnership involving KBW's industry-leading family of financial indexes.

08 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Eze Software Group enhances commission management software

Eze Software Group, a premier provider of global investment technology, has made several enhancements to its commission management offering.

07 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

UBS to offer clients clearing member services for Nodal Exchange

Nodal Exchange, LLC announced today that UBS Securities, LLC, through its LCH.Clearnet Ltd membership, is now offering clients Clearing Member services for Nodal Exchange.

07 April 2015

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Iosco consults on business continuity plans for trading venues and intermediaries

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published two consultation reports aimed at further enhancing the ability of financial markets and intermediaries to manage risks, withstand catastrophic events, and swiftly resume their services in the event of disruption.

07 April 2015

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UBS to investigate blockchain technology in new London innovation lab

The Swiss bank is planning to open an innovation lab in Level39's high growth space, HighGrowth:42, to explore the role of blockchain technology in financial services.

02 April 2015

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Future Money Focus: Jon Matonis

A former foreign exchange dealer for Visa, CEO of HushMail, director of financial services at VeriSign and one of the founding board directors of the Bitcoin Foundation, Jon Matonis' career has blended the world of security, financial services and crypto technology - now Matonis is a public speaker and non-executive director for several startups in the space.

02 April 2015

Company update/Trade execution

Convergex appoints Ann Neidenbach CIO

Convergex, an agency-focused global brokerage and trading related services provider, today announced the appointment of Ann Neidenbach as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO).

01 April 2015

News/Trade execution

Former Goldman programmer faces second trial over HFT code theft

Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had a conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned is back on trial on charges related to the same incident.

01 April 2015