Latest Trade execution News: Finextra Research

Ten years of tracking payments trends

Christophe Vergne, Global Leader of the Cards and Payments Centre of Excellence, Capgemini and Brian Caplen, Editor, The Banker, discuss the main findings of this year’s 10th annual World Payments Report and provide a view on what the payments industry will look like in the next ten years.

09 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

ICE completes $350 million acquisition of SuperDerivates

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, has completed its previously announced acquisition of SuperDerivatives, a leading provider of risk management analytics, financial market data and valuation services.

08 October 2014

News/Trade execution

HFT dealing turns sour for Thomson Reuters as Bloomberg takes on consumer confidence data

An agreement by the University of Michigan to distribute its market moving consumer confidence survey via Bloomberg terminals, rather than exclusively through Thomson Reuters, has been applauded by the New York Attorney General as a victory in his prolonged battle against high frequency trading.

08 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Netagio releases bitcoin trading API

Netagio, the first British Bitcoin, gold & Sterling exchange, today announced the launch of its Application Programming Interface (API).

08 October 2014

Finextra TV/Trade execution

The challenges and trends of T2S

Graham Ray, Director, Global Product Management, Investor Services for Deutsche Bank talks about the upcoming T2S initiative with regards to business model change, challenges in the sector and trends spotted outside of Europe.

07 October 2014

News/Trade execution

Overstock hires developers to create crypto-securities exchange

Online retailer Overstock has hired developers who worked on the P2P decentralised exchange Counterparty to build a marketplace for corporate stocks issued as 'cryptosecurities'.

07 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Polish capital markets prepared for T+2

The Central Securities Depository of Poland (KDPW) changes the settlement cycle from T+3 to T+2 as of 6 October 2014. The shorter settlement cycle will have a positive impact on KDPW and KDPW_CCP participants as well as investors.

03 October 2014

News/Trade execution

US Treasury trading goes electronic

Nearly half of overall US Treasury trading volume is now executed electronically, with Bloomberg and Tradeweb dominating the fast-changing market, according to Greenwich Associates.

03 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Options moves into CME data centre

Options, the leading private financial cloud provider for the global capital markets industry, today announced that it has completed the firm’s expansion into CME’s co-location facility in Aurora, IL.

02 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Rabobank cuts trading system regression testing from three months to five days

VICKING, the technology company behind K-PAX, a strategic automated reconciliations and regression-testing platform, has today announced that Rabobank, one of the world’s leading food & abribusiness financial institutions, has used K-PAX to complete regression testing of its trading platform Kondor+ in record time – five days instead of three month.

02 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

One Financial Markets launches Event Trade app on Tradable

One Financial Markets has announced that it is the first broker to offer a new app in Tradable 'The Event Trader' which enables the scheduling of trades to coincide with important news events and announcements likely to influence the market.

02 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Iosco publishes second securities market risk outloook

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published the IOSCO Securities Markets Risk Outlook 2014-2015.

02 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

IEX selects First Derivatives market surveillance package

First Derivatives (AIM:FDP.L, ESM:FDP.I) a leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, announces that IEX, a high-growth equity trading venue dedicated to investor protection, has selected its Delta software platform to provide trade surveillance and analytics. The system will audit billions of market data records daily, with real time and historical market abuse reporting capabilities.

02 October 2014

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Challenges and opportunities for securities services

Bruno Prigent, global head of securities services at Société Générale and Massimo Cotella, global head of coverage, marketing and liquidity management at SGSS, discuss the challenges they are seeing in the industry, in their business and what they are hearing from their clients.

02 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

ICE completes first phase of Liffe transition

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced that it has successfully completed the transition of the Liffe London soft commodity futures and options contracts to ICE Futures Europe.

01 October 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Swift publishes capital markets report

Oliver Wyman and SWIFT jointly published a report today titled, The Capital Markets Industry: The Times They Are A-Changin’, that analyzes the medium-term outlook for the structure of the capital markets industry.

01 October 2014

Finextra TV/Trade execution

How do you solve a problem like exceptions management?

Peter Webb, senior vice president, product management, SmartStream discusses the challenges banks face dealing with reconciliations and exceptions.

30 September 2014

Company update/Trade execution

OCC and US options exchanges agree new risk controls

OCC and the U.S. options exchanges announced today the adoption of risk control standards that include price reasonability checks, drill-through protections, activity-based protections and kill-switch protections, pending regulatory approval.

30 September 2014

Company update/Trade execution

TMX appoints Lou Eccleston as CEO

TMX Group Limited today announced that it has selected Lou Eccleston to lead the organization as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

30 September 2014

Company update/Trade execution

Nasdaq OMX to implement T+2 standard in Nordic and Baltic markets

NASDAQ OMX is going to implement two-day standard settlement (T+2) to securities admitted to trading on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius exchanges and the respective First North markets.

30 September 2014