Five dealers select Droit for MiFID II Compliance
By Flora McFarlane.
BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds and UBS are using Droit Financial Technologies for MiFID II trade compliance infrastructure.
Jo Hannaford,...
Crunching liquidity data
Sifting the sands of market data for gems of price and liquidity requires a build of mapping and analytical technology often beyond the resources...
Ancoa post-mortem: Spend was over four times greater than revenue
Ancoa, the troubled market surveillance firm that went into administration on 5 May 2017, had an average monthly spend of £450,000 in 2017, or...
AxeTrading receives €2 million investment from Illuminate Financial
AxeTrading, a provider of fixed income trading technology, has announced a strategic investment of €2 million from Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm...
Ancoa goes into adminstration
Cinnober Financial Technology has acquired the assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company, as a going concern. Terms of the deal have...
Bondecosystem and TransFICC partner for bond market connectivity
Outsourced connectivity specialist Bondecosystem has partnered with financial technology provider TransFICC, to deliver a low-latency execution and connectivity service to electronic fixed income venues.
The...
Bloomberg wins over AB and Capital Group with BVAL
AllianceBernstein (AB) and Capital Group have both selected Bloomberg's evaluated pricing service (BVAL) to benchmark and corroborate end-of-day values for US fixed income portfolio...
Connectivity platforms report FI deals ahead of MiFID II
By Sobia Hamid.
The growth of electronic trading in fixed income is driving connectivity between trading platforms. In 2016, Greenwich Associates estimated electronic trading of...
Making prices more easily
If dealers cannot make prices investors will have to, and many firms are stepping up to offer greater access to pricing and liquidity data....
Bitcoin, blockchain and the DLT chimera
The uncertain promises of distributed ledger technology for financial markets. By Ferdinando Ametrano, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo).
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at a very...
