Category: Institutional

July 27, 2017 BY admin

Thomson Reuters enhances FXall and FX Trading desktops for MiFID II execution

Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) just announced completed enhancements to its FXall and FX Trading desktops to ensure clients trading on Thomson Reuters Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) remain fully compliant with the new MiFID II execution requirements for FX derivatives that will take effect in January 2018. The enhancements enable Thomson Reuters to add MTF-support for…

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July 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Data launches the EBS FX Benchmarks

New benchmarks ensure regular, accurate and reliable price information for all major currency pairs NEX Data, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, announced today the launch of the ‘EBS FX Benchmarks’, a series of 30-minute FX fixings. The new fixings went live on 26 July…

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July 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters enhances tick history in preparation for MiFID II

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that has enhanced its tick history data service, Tick History 2.0, to provide the financial industry with a powerful tool for developing algorithmic and systematic trading strategies and assist in meeting MiFID II requirements in 2018. The solution assists institutions in complying with MiFID II, by incorporating additional reference data fields…

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July 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Marusan goes live with Fidessa for wholesale agency trading

Fidessa group plc (LON: FDSA) today announced that Marusan Securities Co., Ltd. (TYO:8613), an independent securities company headquartered in Tokyo, has gone live with Fidessa for its wholesale agency trading business. Japan's Financial Services Agency is now promoting wider adoption of "fiduciary duty – in a broad sense of serving the clients' interests", not only…

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July 25, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Quantitative Brokers partners with TS for premium execution algo

Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent, global financial technology company providing advanced, dealer-neutral agency algorithms in Futures and US Cash Treasury markets just announced that has partnered with TS (formerly TradingScreen), an industry provider of electronic trading solutions, to integrate QB’s premium multi-leg spread trading algorithm Legger on TS’s TradeSmart platform. Legger is a part of…

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July 25, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Inc. releases quarterly financial results, operating revenue down with 3%

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following quarterly financial results of its wholly-owned subsidiary Monex Inc., for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018 prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in Japan. Operating revenue for the first quarter ended…

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July 25, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters strengthens buy-side trading workflow offering

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that has completed a key milestone in its commitment to provide a powerful and integrated buy-side trading workflow solution by delivering interoperability between its financial markets desktop Eikon and REDI execution management system. The milestone follows Thomson Reuters acquisition of REDI in January this year and the recent expansion of the…

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July 24, 2017 BY admin

Calypso acquires stake in clearing and post-trade provider Sernova Financial

Calypso Technology, a provider of capital markets and investment management software, announced today that it has acquired a minority stake in Sernova Financial, a provider of cloud-based clearing and post trade services. Powered by the Calypso Cloud platform, Sernova Financial recreates the shared infrastructure and service items of clearing brokers. By reducing the transaction costs…

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