Alignment Systems expands team to support demand for front office analytics
Front office technology specialist Alignment Systems has expanded its team to better support buy-side client who are striving to use data more effectively in...
Bloomberg makes its real-time B-PIPE data feed available on AWS
Bloomberg's flagship real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, has been available on the cloud via Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving clients access to the same...
ING’s AI is smarter at pricing bonds
By Flora McFarlane.
ING has launched Katana, a new artificially intelligent (AI) bond trading tool which uses predictive analytics to help price trades for clients....
Hermes Investment Management chooses IHS Markit for TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Hermes Investment Management has chosen IHS Markit’s TCA platform ahead of incoming best execution obligations under MiFID II.
The technology provider’s TCA platform...
Liquidnet: 39% of buy-side firms rethinking use of TCA
By Flora McFarlane.
Traditional transaction cost analysis (TCA) could be a casualty in the shifting landscape of pre- and post-MiFID II regulation, with 39% of...
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...
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...
Trading systems FIXed to Ipreo for bond issuance
Primary market specialist Ipreo has launched a FIX-messaging based system for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to...