The TRADE

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Market participants need global data-driven content to enhance their own products and gain deeper understanding of market shifts and liquidity dynamics, and to identify opportunities for better trading outcomes. Crucially, they need their data to be ready for use without the burden of data engineering and infrastructure on their P&L.

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The TRADE

JUNE 8, 2023

Delikaris rejoins the firm from Coinbase, where he most recently served as head of digital finance trading. Previously, he served as State Street’s global head of algorithmic trading, securities finance. Prior to that, he spent nine years at State Street, serving as managing director, global head of AAPS – a role he will reprise.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of a major scheme from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop the region as a global FX trading hub, several large banks over the last few years agreed to develop FX pricing and trading engines in Singapore, in partnership with MAS.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This week the Aquis Stock Exchange has become the first recognised investment exchange (RIE) to run a cloud-based matching engine, having achieved a full migration. All Aquis Stock Exchange trades are now being matched and executed successfully while running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as of 27 November.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 31, 2023

Publicly traded Dynatrace already offers a comprehensive suite of observability tools, but the addition of Rookout will allow it to expand these services with code-level observability into production environments. “We

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Local participants are less familiar with trading USD/PEN electronically which gives a large space to improve traded volumes and the number of participants. There is a learning curve and a change of mindset from local participants who are more used to trade USD/PEN through voice.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Trading Technologies has moved to expand into clearing technologies with the acquisition of listed derivatives post-trade solutions provider ATEO SAS. The deal builds on an existing strategic partnership announced by the pair in late 2022 and is designed to deliver a post-trade allocation service to the sell-side.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has entered an agreement to provide trading, clearing and market surveillance technology to power Brazil’s next-generation derivatives and futures exchange, A5X.    Ron Lefferts The agreement will see A5X operating LSEG’s integrated market infrastructure technology suite, which includes pre-trade risk management, (..)

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

BlackRock has selected a former FlexTrade order management system pre-sales specialist for a solutions engineering role on its flagship Aladdin platform. The post BlackRock’s Aladdin selects former FlexTrade buy-side OMS specialist for solutions engineering role appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

Nasdaq and the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) have expanded their technology partnership which will see the former upgrade its core trading platform to Nasdaq’s most advanced matching engine. The post Indonesia Stock Exchange taps Nasdaq to build out market infrastructure appeared first on The TRADE.

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

OCTOBER 28, 2024

metropolitan area in its sale of 90% ownership to Sojitz Energy Services LLC (“Sojitz”), a subsidiary of the Japanese general trading company Sojitz Corporation. About Sojitz Corporation Sojitz Corporation (TYO: 2768) is a general trading company based in Tokyo, Japan with about 400 subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Trading infrastructure provider Exegy has entered into an introducer partnership with Level 3 historical data and analytics provider BMLL Technologies. This partnership will help free up the time spent on the analysis process, alongside democratising access to trading intelligence.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Adaptive Financial Consulting has collaborated with regulated digital asset exchange Bullish to increase trading capacity and boost throughput as it looks to scale and meet growing business demand. The post Digital asset exchange Bullish taps Adaptive and Google Cloud to enhance trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 27, 2023

Using its patent-pending forensics engine, Berbix can help businesses detect fake IDs to reduce fraud and ensure compliance with local regulations. The updated service combines Berbix’s forensics engine for spotting fake IDs with Socure’s image capture app and user experience. This marks Socure’s first acquisition.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. However, an undeniable surge has occurred across the trading sphere over the last few years, with decidedly mixed results. And the number is climbing.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A third of post-trade firms are operating with legacy platforms more than a decade old, with budgets being dominated by maintenance and upgrades over investments in replacements and transitions, new research has found. The post New study of post-trade ecosystem shows pain of legacy systems appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 11, 2024

Athina Trika Speaking to The TRADE, Athina Trika, CFA, execution sales at Kepler Cheuvreux, explained: “KCx’s Analytical Suite is a significant step toward increased transparency, opening up a broad prospect of opportunities for flexible and agile data sharing.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

AUGUST 5, 2024

Shares in FTSE 250 company slump 37% in early trading after Dubai-based Sidara cites geopolitical risk The share price of the British oil services company John Wood Group has plunged by more than a third after a Dubai-based suitor pulled out of a purchase amid global market turmoil.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Euronext FX has a global reach, with matching engines across regions, including in: London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore. The post Euronext FX appoints new head of sales appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2024

The past year has seen vast improvement across the algorithmic trading space when it came to hedge funds’ strategies, new data from The TRADE has found. The TRADE received a record number of responses to this year’s Algorithmic Trading Survey. The survey is accessible here.

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The TRADE

APRIL 16, 2024

BMLL has moved to expand its regional Asia-Pacific offering with the launch of India equities trading data, The TRADE can reveal. India data, BMLL chief executive Paul Humphrey tells The TRADE, is in particular demand from US clients thanks to demand for trading in the region. They like trading there.”

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The TRADE

APRIL 23, 2024

Two heads of trading desk invited to speak on stage at TradeTech 2024 were posed with a bombshell question at the end of their panel – whether or not outsourcing the trading desk achieves the same outcomes as keeping trading inhouse. The trading desk used to be a cog in the machine as opposed to the engine itself,” they said.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Next up in our introduction to the distinguished nominees for Leaders in Trading 2023 Editors’ Choice Awards, we bring you the shortlist for the Outstanding Market Data Provider category, shining a light on those displaying recent excellence in the data sphere.

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The TRADE

APRIL 3, 2024

The move follows a previous collaboration between the parties which saw TD Securities’ Chicago-based subsidiary TD Securities Automated Trading (TSAT) use Google Cloud’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE) capabilities in a bid to keep up with market developments.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Aquis markets division delivered strong results, following on from the integration of Aquis Matching Pool last year, with revenues spurred on by the diversification of the business, Alasdair Haynes, chief executive of Aquis, told The TRADE. “If

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The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The move came two days after a court upheld the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to the deal on antitrust grounds.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

We also welcome the opportunity to enhance our own post trade products and solutions by collaborating with innovative market infrastructure groups like B3,” added Chai. The multi-year work schedule will see engineering teams from both sides collaborate on the development, aiming to roll-out the platform gradually.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

Around-the-clock (24/7) trading is something we already see in the foreign exchange markets and the growing cryptocurrency landscape. Some exchanges do offer pre-market and after-hours trading sessions, where limited trading activity occurs outside regular trading hours. Already in EMEA, we have six valid trading days.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

The companies said that the acquisition will include tech assets, customer relationships (that is, customers using the tools) and engineering, product and go-to-market talent. All of these will be added to RingCentral’s video solutions business, adding events to its existing offerings in meetings, webinars and video “rooms.”

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Growth Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you’ve experience in applications deployment, DNS, PKI, OS (Windows, MAC, *NIX), SDN, encryption, security solutions, ‘attack and defensive’ methods, threat hunting, threat modelling, reverse engineering, vulnerability management, data modelling and cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba), this is the role for you.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The world of trading, and investment generally, is littered with the remnants of now-redundant solutions once thought to be the ‘future’ of the industry. But what does the persistent evolution of AI mean for capital markets specifically? A reminder perhaps that caution is our best friend when it comes to technological innovation.

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The TRADE

JULY 4, 2024

Avelacom has expanded its low latency solution portfolio through enabling access to the Brazil Stock Exchange (B3), providing clients a direct market access port to B3’s matching engine. The move facilitates low latency access to B3 for all trading participants and extends the exchange’s services to numerous additional global markets.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Last month, the Aquis Stock Exchange became the first recognised investment exchange (RIE) to run a cloud-based matching engine, having achieved a full migration. The post Aquis Exchange names new chief strategy officer appeared first on The TRADE.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 3, 2023

In the latest development, HappyFunCorp — a product engineering house that designs and builds apps and more for the likes of Apple, Disney, Amazon and Twitter — is getting acquired by Canadian firm Tiny for $30 million. Tiny is based out of Canada and is publicly traded there with a current market cap of around $500 million.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mid-X leverages the MarketAxess Open Trading network which offers access to a pool of sell-side and ETF liquidity to maximise matching opportunities. Mid-X claims to provide full anonymity, and limits information leakage with size only revealed when trades are complete and only to those involved in that trade.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Previously, high-quality engineered Level 3 data was the preserve of only the world’s most sophisticated quantitative firms,” Paul Humphrey, chief executive of BMLL, told The TRADE. “It It takes a non-trivial amount of engineering to take big data and make it into usable, relevant data.

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The TRADE

JUNE 11, 2024

Instead, users will have access to historical market data within their environment, without the engineering requirements to reformat. They no longer need to dedicate precious time, budget and resources to data engineering and infrastructure.

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