Latest Trade execution News: Finextra Research

SmartTrade Technologies appoints Soren Haagensen sales director, the Americas

smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading pioneer, announced today the appointment of Soren Haagensen as Sales Director for the Americas where he will be contributing to smartTrade’s growth as well as ensuring smartTrade continues to deliver excellent services to both new and existing clients.

06 March 2018

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Capital markets startup Capitolis secures $29 million in funding

Capitolis, a 'next generation' provider of capital markets technology founded by Gil Mandelzis, ex-Traiana, and Icap, Tom Glocer, ex-CEO of Thomson Reuters, and Igor Teleshevksy, formerly Traiana, has raised $29 million in financing from Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

06 March 2018

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Metropole Gestion overhauls front and middle office with SimCorp

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, today announced that METROPOLE Gestion has selected SimCorp Dimension to streamline its front and middle office operations.

05 March 2018

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Bank Frick opens up cryptocurrency trading and safekeeping service

Bank Frick is the first financial institution in Liechtenstein to offer the trading of five leading cryptocurrencies and secure safekeeping via offline storage.

02 March 2018

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Vaultbank Exchange launches in beta

Vaultbank, the next-generation suite of financial solutions, today announced the beta launch of the Vaultbank Exchange, the first decentralized exchange to allow trading of security tokens.

02 March 2018

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Market infrastructure body backs FCA global sandbox

The World Federation of Exchanges has thrown its weight behind an FCA proposal to create a global regulatory sandbox, reiterating its support for an internationally coherent supervisory approach to emerging financial technologies.

02 March 2018

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Nasdaq sues competitor IEX over alleged technology rip off

Nasdaq has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival IEX, extending a long-running battle with the upstart exchange.

02 March 2018

Company update/Trade execution

Broadway Technology connects to Moscow Exchange

Broadway Technology, LLC, a leading provider of high-performance fintech and infrastructure solutions, now offers solutions for connectivity to the Moscow Exchange, who is widely recognized by the largest international clients.

01 March 2018

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Thomson Reuters picks up quant data deal with LHQI

Longreach Harvest Quant Investors (LHQI), a global active equity quantitative manager, has selected Thomson Reuters QA Direct data management solution to power its business. QA Direct offers a powerful, scalable platform to manage, maintain and integrate quantitative analysis and investment data.

01 March 2018

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WFE reports on the fintech landscape in the Capital Markets Infrastructure (CMI) industry

The World Federation of Exchanges (“The WFE”), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, today published a joint report with global management consultancy McKinsey & Company’s Banking & Securities Practice (“McKinsey”), .

01 March 2018

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BSO revamps Asia route as traders seek faster access to Hong Kong and Singapore

Global network provider BSO has enhanced its low-latency route between the Singapore (SGX) and Hong Kong (HKEX) Exchanges, as demand for faster trading across Asia increases.

01 March 2018

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Credit Suisse and ING execute DLT-based securities lending and contract exchange

Credit Suisse and ING have executed a live collateral swap with full legal exchange of contracts and settlement taking place over R3's Corda blockchain platform.

01 March 2018

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Nomura takes quantum step in stock market forecasting

Nomura is to launch a joint research project with Tohoku University to test the applicability of quantum computing in stock market forecasting.

01 March 2018

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IPC and Spark Systems partner for improved market connectivity

IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, and Spark Systems, a Singapore-based financial technology company providing innovative trading solutions for foreign exchange trading in Asia, announced today that Spark Systems has joined the IPC FX Hub.

27 February 2018

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TrueEx opens Singapore office

trueEX, the leading independent provider of derivatives markets, has opened a Singapore office to provide trading access for interest rate swaps denominated in 28 currencies, including 11 in the Asia-Pacific region.

27 February 2018

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CBOE futures market migrates to Bats platform

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today announced the successful migration of Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) to its proprietary Bats technology, a significant milestone in the company’s multi-exchange, multi-year technology integration.

27 February 2018

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Mana Partners goes live with Metamako for low latency exchange connectivity

Mana Partners (Mana), the New York-based electronic trading and asset management firm, has gone live with Metamako, using its cutting-edge network devices to provide cost-effective, nanosecond-level access to exchanges, in doing so granting Mana the ability to make superior investment decisions.

27 February 2018

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CFETS and NEX launch next-generation trading platform for the Chinese FX market

NEX (NXG.L), a financial technology company at the centre of the global markets, announces that it has partnered with China Foreign Exchange TradeSystem (CFETS), China’s interbank market trading platform and infrastructure provider, to launch ‘CFETS FX2017’ (“FX2017”), a next-generation trading platform for the Chinese foreign exchange (FX) market.

26 February 2018

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Fidessa provides access to Virtu price feeds

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) and Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT) today announced a partnership to connect Virtu Systematic Internaliser’s customisable liquidity to Fidessa’s award-winning market access solutions.

26 February 2018

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Deutsche Börse CollCo project green-lighted by Eurex

Deutsche Börses's Collateralised Coin Project for shifting collateral among banks using tokenised digital coins has been given the go-ahead for a full-scale pilot by Eurex Clearing.

23 February 2018