Post-trade matching that exploits the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol is at the heart of a new partnership between electronic trading platform provider Fidessa group and FIX-based affirmation services vendor Alpha Omega, who are joining forces to offer “faster, low-cost bidirectional trade matching” via Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), says Steve Grob,… Read More >>
Hosting is a Serious Business: Fiserv
(Editor’s note: Many securities firms are embracing the hosted option be it a cloud-based offering, an application service provider (ASP) model or a “something-as-a-service” implementation. While much is made about the hands-off aspects of these hosted situations, operations staff members still have a lot of interactions with third-party suppliers. Tirdad Shojaie, senior vice president, product… Read More >>
ITG Launches Tool to Review Post-Trade, Fill-Level Data
ITG Launches Execution Analysis Tool ITG, an independent broker and financial technology vendor, reports that it has launched ITG Execution Analysis, a web-based analytics tool for clients seeking additional insights into their fill-level data and broker-neutral algorithm usage. “Through the use of FIX-based, fill-level data, ITG Execution Analysis focuses on algorithm usage, spread capture, venue… Read More >>
Maybank Kim Eng Unifies Asian Trading via New Platform
The investment banking and equities trading units of Maybank Kim Eng have gone live with a new order management and execution platform intended to help the firm unify its regional trading support and bolster global growth, according to bank officials. Maybank Kim Eng is using trading technology from vendor Fidessa, and went live in November… Read More >>
Ops Gets on the Blockchain Revolution Bus
Bitcoin, a so-called crypto-currency, may fade before anyone really understands what it was or how it could actually have prevailed in financial services. However, out of Bitcoin’s ashes has risen the humbly named Blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology that has been propping up Bitcoin has come to the attention of major industry players. This… Read More >>
UAE Firm Offers New Access to NY Trading Hub
A brokerage and foreign exchange investment firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ADS Securities, is offering its clients new connectivity to New York financial markets because customers are more concerned with the ways “they can connect than they are with the places,” according a spokesman for the firm. The Abu Dhabi-based firm, regarded… Read More >>
EBS Direct Uses FIX 4.4 for Application Links
EBS Direct to Use FIX 4.4 API EBS BrokerTec, the electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business group of interdealer broker ICAP, reports that end-users can connect to its FX platform — EBS Direct via a FIX version 4.4 application programming interface (API). The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for electronic trading is overseen… Read More >>
TrueEX, JPMorgan & RBS Stretch FIX for Swaps
TrueEX, a swap execution facility (SEF), JPMorgan and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have launched the trueFIX automated execution and processing solution for U.S. dollar, Euro and U.K. Sterling swaps that will work with the FIX-based confirmation and affirmation protocol extensions from the FIX Trading Community. The FIX Trading Community is the governing body behind… Read More >>
FIX May Get New Timestamps for MiFID II Compliance
The FIX Protocol for electronic trading may soon support higher timestamp resolution to help market participants comply with the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) for Europe, according to the governing body behind the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) standard. Implementing MiFID II will involve many IT challenges for industry participants, says Kathleen Traynor,… Read More >>
DTCC Debuts ‘Data as a Service’ Offering
DTCC Debuts ‘Data as a Service’ Offering Post-trade services utility, the DTCC is launching its data as a service (DaaS) offering that is intended to change the way data is accessed and presented from DTCC’s clearing, settlement, asset servicing and derivatives trade reporting solutions, DTCC officials say. “The DaaS offering provides subscribers access to their… Read More >>
