London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista today announced it has welcomed more than 20 firms to its Partner Programme in the first half of 2017. The Partner Programme was launched to bring together the world's leading financial services and regulatory technology firms to increase efficiency and reduce operational and regulatory risk for clients. The UnaVista Partner…
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Singapore-based Hedge Fund becomes early adopter of ULLINK’s new portfolio and performance management tool ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, announced the successful go-live of Village Capital with ULLINK’s new post-trade solution, XTRAIN. The solution extends Village Capital’s use of ULLINK’s buy-side Execution Management System (EMS), XILIX,…
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Today BETTER FINANCE announced that will release its research report on Robo-Investing at the Seminar on Financial Guidance. Financial Guidance, as opposed to Advice, is a fee-based, rather than commission-based, model. This model should ensure a better alignment with client interests. As such Robo-Investing providers may actually be rather well placed to provide financial guidance…
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Northern Trust announced today the launch of a suite of sophisticated foreign exchange client execution algorithms that will allow clients to manage their FX exposure with an enhanced level of control and transparency. The FX Algo Suite gives clients greater flexibility in how their orders are placed and allows them to access highly competitive pricing…
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ResearchPool, a global digital platform for investment research, announces the launch of its MiFID II solution for investment firms to manage budget, spending, consume and evaluate research, named Tool for Research Usage and Evaluation (TRUE). TRUE is an advanced proprietary solution to enable investment firms to easily manage and control research spending and usage by…
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Acquisition expands digital technology suite to further enable financial institutions to provide innovative experiences and meet evolving expectations Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today it has reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to acquire Monitise plc (LON: MONI). The acquisition is expected to…
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Financial innovation firm R3 announced that has partnered with ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) to launch a Centre of Excellence for distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the global insurance industry. R3 counts a number of major insurance companies amongst its member base, including MetLife, AIA and Suncorp Group, as well as other…
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A new wave of robo-advisors, an increasing number of partnerships between wealth managers and widespread usage of inorganic intelligence will drive significant change and opportunities for the wealth management industry in 2017 and beyond, according to a new report developed by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) in association with Aite Group. The report, “The Digital…
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that is extending its instant messenger capabilities to the buy-side professionals who use its recently-acquired REDI execution management system, in a move designed to break down barriers to communication in financial markets. The integration of Eikon Messenger with the Thomson Reuters REDI system will provide improved pre-trade workflow for REDI clients…
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Tallinn, Estonia based FX broker technology solutions provider AMTS Solutions and MT5 developer MetaQuotes have announced the release of the AMTS MetaTrader 5 Gateway, enabling the integration of the multi-asset trading platform with leading providers of global liquidity. AMTS ECN is a high-tech, multi-module, infinitely scalable system, which is resistant to high-frequency requests and provides outstanding characteristics along…
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