Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Trading Technologies signs Graystone Asset Management

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced that Graystone Asset Management Ltd, an investment management and advisory firm, has contracted with Trading Technologies to secure ultra-low-latency connectivity to leading exchanges through TT’s new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.

21 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Options extends colocation to more Apac exchanges

Options, the leading provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, today welcomed the addition of Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx), Korea Exchange (KRX) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX – ALC Australian Liquidity Centre) to its Managed Colocation platform.

21 February 2019

News/Trade execution

HKEX to buy majority stake in Shenzhen-based fintech firm

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in a Shenzhen-based financial markets technology firm. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

20 February 2019

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Redefining the trade finance asset class ecosystem

Michel Kilzi, Managing Partner, FINEON Exchange, speaks about the trade finance market today, what technological innovations are present of FINEON's marketplace, and what the future of trade finance looks like.

18 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Vela partners CoinRoutes to deliver crypto-asset smart order routing

Vela, a leading independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, today announced a new partnership with CoinRoutes, a leading provider of consolidated data, smart order routing & algorithmic trading for crypto investors, to extend the crypto-asset capabilities of the Vela product stack.

14 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Dash launches real-time transparency for portfolio trading

Dash Financial Technologies, the industry’s leading capital markets technology and execution provider, today announced the addition of a new suite of real-time analytics, visualization and reporting tools aimed at portfolio traders.

13 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Banorte selects Murex’s MX.3 platform

Banorte, the second largest financial institution in Mexico, has recently selected Murex, a global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions, to meet its counterparty risk, XVA and collateral management needs.

13 February 2019

News/wholesale

Canadian banks back new market data hub

Canada's big six banks are teaming up with local online exchange CanDeal to build a fixed income and derivatives market data hub.

12 February 2019

Company update/regulation

Former Deutsche Bank dealer handed suspended sentence for falisfying trading records

Former Sydney Deutsche Bank FX options and futures trader, Andrew Donaldson, has been sentenced in the District Court in Sydney to 18 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to falsifying entries in Deutsche Bank's internal financial records and systems.

12 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

BSO opens Crypto Connect to Stake Capital

BSO, the award-winning Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider, is partnering with Stake Capital, an emerging leader in the staking services market, to provide highly secure and available investor delegation services.

12 February 2019

News/Trade execution

Blockchain will follow the same adoption path as cloud computing

Financial services panelists at London Blockchain Week anticipate that the deployment of distributed ledgers in trading markets will follow a similar cautious path to that of cloud computing, as big banks tread carefully around the regulatory and policy implications of the technology.

12 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Refinitiv retains contract for Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rate

Refinitiv, the former financial and risk business unit of Thomson Reuters, has been re-appointed by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) as the calculating and distribution agent for the industry interest rate benchmark, Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rate (KLIBOR).

11 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

SPiCE VC invests in digital securities exchange Archax

SPiCE VC, the world’s first fully tokenised venture capital fund, today announced its latest strategic investment, taking a stake in Archax – the forthcoming institutional digital securities exchange based in London.

11 February 2019

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Industry challenges around IBOR Transition

Andrew Kouloumbrides, CEO, Xceptor and Bruce Laing, Partner, IBOR Transition lead, Baringa, speaks about the industry challenges around IBOR Transition, what Financial Institutions have done up to date to meet these challenges and what to expect next.

11 February 2019

News/Trade execution

Euronext raises offer for Oslo Bourse

Euronext has upped its offer for Oslo Bourse to $785.7 million in an effort to beat off Nasdaq's competitive $770 takeover bid for the Nordic exchange.

11 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Quant Insight offer macro risk analytics in partnership with Euronext

Quant Insight, a London-based firm specialising in machine learning-driven macro analytics, in partnership with Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, have developed a new alternative data service, Macro Risk Insight, in order to provide asset managers with valuable insight into the risk exposure of their investments to globalmacro factors.

07 February 2019

News/Trade execution

Swiss stock exchange plans to raise capital on new digital asset system

The Swiss stock exchange says it wants to kick off digital asset trading with its own Security Token Offering when its new blockchain-based trading system goes live later this year.

07 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

FlexNOW EMS available through Amazon Web Services

FlexTrade Systems today announced that FlexNOW, the industry’s first cloud-based execution management system, is now available via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

07 February 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Currency.com launches tokenised securities platform

Currency.com, a next-generation blockchain technology company, today announced the launch of the world’s first fully-functional trading platform for tokenised securities, which allows investors to trade, invest in, and benefit from exposure to, real-world financial instruments by directly using cryptocurrencies.

05 February 2019

News/Trade execution

US reports record surge in electronic trading data

Greater use of electronic trading and market volatility saw a record surge in trading data reported by the US capital markets watchdog in 2018, raising questions about regulators' ability to successfully and safely monitor markets.

05 February 2019