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

Bolsa de Valores de Panamá goes live with Nasdaq trading system

Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Bolsa de Valores de Panamá (BVP) have announced that BVP has successfully gone-live with its new trading system.

23 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Seed CX kicks off spot trading on digital assets

Institutional investors who have may have held back from trading digital assets due to concerns about regulatory oversight, technical reliability and conflicts of interest can now move forward with confidence, with today’s announcement that spot trading is now live on Seed CX.

23 January 2019

Company update/ai

Grasshopper taps Solace for AI-powered trading

Grasshopper, Singapore’s leading proprietary trading firm and liquidity provider, has expanded its deployment of the Solace PubSub+ advanced event broker to offer enhanced capabilities that use machine learning for predictive trading.

22 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

TNS acquires R2G

Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced the acquisition of Chicago-based market data, connectivity and hosting specialist R2G Services.

22 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

7orca Asset Management goes live on IHS Markit's ThinkFolio

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that 7orca Asset Management AG (“7orca”) is live on its order management and portfolio modeling solution, thinkFolio.

22 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

BlueCove selects Patronas for portfolio and compliance management

PATRONAS Financial Systems (“PATRONAS”), a Freiburg-based leading provider of multi asset portfolio and order management solutions for the international investment industry, today announced that BlueCove Limited (“BlueCove”), a new London based scientific fixed income asset management firm founded in 2018 by Hugh Willis, Executive Chairman, and Alex Khein, CEO, have signed an agreement for a fully managed installation of PATRONAS’s flagship integrated portfolio and compliance management solution OPUS.

22 January 2019

News/Trade execution

Hong Kong crypto exchange to go live with LSE technology

The London Stock Exchange has signed its first technology licensing deal with an emerging crypto exchange, providing its Millennium matching engine to Hong Kong's Atom Asset Exchange.

22 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

CubeLogic ships sentiment analysis tool

CubeLogic, a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) enabled risk management, workflow and reporting solutions, announces the launch of ‘CubeWatch Sentiment Analysis’ to enables firms to track sentiment via monitoring of social media and other sources.

21 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

B2C2 rolls out point-and-click execution

B2C2, one of the largest cryptocurrency liquidity providers and the leader in electronic OTC trading, today announced the launch of streaming pricing with point-and-click execution on its OTC platform.

21 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

BitGo partners Genesis Global Trading

BitGo, Inc., the market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services, today announced that it has partnered with Genesis Global Trading, an industry pioneer and leader in over-the-counter digital currency trading, to provide clients with the ability to trade digital assets directly from BitGo custody.

16 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Bloomberg MTF gets Dutch regulatory green light

Bloomberg announces today that its affiliate, Bloomberg Trading Facility B.V., has received authorisation from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to operate a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).

15 January 2019

Company update/wholesale

Quest Partners signs on with QuantHouse

QuantHouse, the independent global provider of high performance systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo development tools and global network infrastructure, today announced it has been selected by Quest Partners LLC (“Quest”) to support the diverse needs of their automated traders.

15 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

RCB Bank signs for Eurobase treasury platform Siena

Eurobase is pleased to announce that RCB Bank Ltd has selected Siena as its treasury, trading and sales solution, including an online customer dealing platform.

14 January 2019

News/Trade execution

Euronext tables EUR625 million bid for Oslo Bors

Euronext is pressing ahead with a EUR625 million takeover bid for Oslo Bors as the Scandinavian trading destination seeks to ignite a bidding war with alternative suitors waiting in the wings.

14 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Temenos strikes buy-side data deal with Bloomberg

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Bloomberg to deliver contingency Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations to buy-side institutions.

14 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Security token trading platform Cezex preps Asia launch

Asia Blockchain and Crypto Association ("ABACA") is pleased to announce the launch of CEZEX, Asia's first security token trading platform, by 28 January 2019.

14 January 2019

News/Trade execution

US shutdown impacts fintech market

The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.

11 January 2019

News/Trade execution

Scotland's fintechs treble in number

The number of fintechs based in Scotland has increased threefold in the last 12 months following an initiative between government, academia and the finance industry designed to boost the sector.

11 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

CEZEX and Hydra X team up for digital trading platform

Singapore-headquartered Hydra X, a next-generation trading technology provider, announced a partnership with leading Asian digital asset exchange, CEZEX

11 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Ripple XRP comes to Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), an institutional-grade, regulated and insured token sale platform and digital asset exchange, has today added Ripple (XRP) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX), a state-of-the-art exchange created with the high expectations of professional crypto-traders in mind.

09 January 2019