Latest Trade execution News: Finextra Research

Enabling initiatives to harmonise and innovate

Benoit Desserre, Head of Global Transaction Banking, Société Générale, talks about SocGen’s digital transformation project, what needs to be improved in terms of existing corporate-to-bank flows and what progress has been made on key industry initiatives to harmonise and innovate using a client-orientated mindset in order to deliver value to customers.

31 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Broadway Technology expands into global fixed income

Broadway Technology, a provider of high-performance fintech and infrastructure solutions, has signed three tier-one banks, including Barclays, to mark its expansion into the global fixed income marketplace.

31 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

CME Group plans bitcoin futures

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it intends to launch bitcoin futures in the fourth quarter of 2017, pending all relevant regulatory review periods.

31 October 2017

News/Trade execution

Japan's banks plan 33,000 job cuts in digital downsizing

Japan's megabanks are planning to make huge, long-term cuts to their workforces as they increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in a bid to streamline operations and cut costs.

31 October 2017

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Looking towards a more fragmented future

Mike Thrower, Managing Director, Head of Sales, EMEA, Broadridge Financial Solutions, talks at Sibos 2017 about the opportunities presented to banks to accelerate profitable growth through innovation, whether banks’ risks frameworks will face up to the challenges ahead and if markets are coping with increasing regulatory requirements.

30 October 2017

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Changing expectations and staying relevant

Erik Zingmark, Co-Head of Transaction Banking, Nordea, talks at Sibos 2017 about why Nordea is so keen to collaborate with banks, the risks banks can expect to see when embracing new ways of developing customer-facing solutions and how banks can prepare for the changes heading their way in the future.

30 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Credit Suisse kickstarts AI-based stockpicking

Credit Suisse announced today the launch of the Credit Suisse RavenPack Artificial Intelligence Sentiment (AIS) Index, a result of its collaboration with RavenPack to create quantitative investment strategies from news analyses leveraging RavenPack's artificial intelligence algorithms.

30 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Wintermeyer to head Huddlestock advisory board

Lawrence Wintermeyer, the former CEO of Innovate Finance, has been appointed to lead Huddlestock’s global advisory board.

30 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

LME lays down delivery programme

The London Metal Exchange and LME Clear (together, the LME) today announce the delivery programme for their strategic pathway, including product launches, membership enhancements and new trading efficiencies.

30 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

CurrencyVue partners Afex for corporate FX hedging

Currency solutions platform, CurrencyVue, has today announced the launch of its Integrated FX Risk Management Platform, transforming the way businesses manage complex payments and FX hedging contracts.

30 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

BDO Nomura signs with Intellect design Arena

Intellect Design Arena Ltd, a digital financial technology product provider, has successfully won the deal from BDO Nomura, a premier investment house in Philippines and a joint venture between BDO Unibank (the leading bank in Philippines) and Nomura, Japan a leading financial services firm.

30 October 2017

News/Trade execution

ICE sells Trayport to TMX Group

Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to sell energy trading technology shop Trayport to Canadian exchange operator TMX Group in a deal worth around £550 million.

27 October 2017

News/Trade execution

HKEx closes iconic trading floor as it goes all-electric

The iconic Trading Hall in the Hong Kong Exchange, which has stood through the 1997 Asia financial crash, SARS and countless boom and busts, has closed for the final time today as it became the latest stock exchange to adopt electronic trading throughout.

27 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Tullett Prebon debuts electronic trading system for LME members

Tullett Prebon, part of TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, is today pleased to announce the launch of an electronic trading solution for members of the London Metal Exchange (LME) to help them manage so-called “broken-dated carries”.

25 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Nasdaq Q3 net revenues rise 4%

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. Third quarter 2017 net revenues were $607 million, up $22 million or 4% from $585 million in the prior year period.

25 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

BME adapts fixed income platforrm for MiFID II

BME has adapted its Fixed Income market so that intermediaries and brokers can transfer all their operations to the regulated market and comply with the new disclosure and reporting requirements required by MiFID II – which will come into force in January.

25 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

IntercontinentalExchange to acquire Virtu BondPoint

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, has entered into an agreement to acquire Virtu BondPoint from Virtu Financial for $400 million in cash.

25 October 2017

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Why the modernisation of market infrastructure transforms the future.

Isabel Schmidt, Head of Cash & Clearing Products Americas in Cash Management at Deutsche Bank talks about the push to modernise financial market infrastructures and why this is happening. How it drives considerable change and disrupts traditional models, what the effect of this is and why it is essential to meet customer needs and improve current inefficiencies.

25 October 2017

Company update/Trade execution

Horizon Software joins the QuantHouse qh API Ecosystem

QuantHouse, the independent global leader of end-to-end high performance market data and trading API based technologies, today announced that Horizon Software, the leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has joined the qh API Ecosystem to benefit from global reach and end-to-end performance.

25 October 2017

Finextra TV/Trade execution

Hong Kong: A major fintech hub in the making

Thorsten Terweiden, Deputy Head of Fintech, Invest Hong Kong, and Dora Ziambra, Head of Business Development, Azimo, talk about how InvestHK has helped Azimo to flourish as a new fintech, future plans for developing in Hong Kong and what general advice they would give to future fintechs looking to start up in Hong Kong.

24 October 2017