(FTF News recently got time with Roy Kirby, head of core products at SIX, and explored some of the key findings from SIX’s Future of Finance 2025-26 survey and report. The fourth annual study in the Future of Finance series focuses on the expectations of senior executives overseeing the global financial services industry. The report… Read More >>
LMAX Launches Conversion Facility for FX & Digital Assets
A cross-asset marketplace, LMAX Group has launched an infrastructure layer, the Omnia Exchange, that will help end-users to convert FX and digital assets in real time via an application programming interface (API), intended to unify wholesale liquidity and pricing, officials say. Omnia combines blockchain order/entry with the execution of a centralized exchange, officials add. “Omnia… Read More >>
Sibos Roundup: Firms Are Racing to Modernize Ops
Several vendors serving the securities industry marked the first days of Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt with news and product launches. The conference and exhibition sponsored by the Swift financial messaging cooperative is underway at the Messe Frankfurt conference center from September 29 to October 2 and is bringing together global financial honchos to examine industry… Read More >>
Ortex to Provide Short Interest Data to EDI Clients
Global securities data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) is partnering with financial analytics provider Ortex to offer EDI clients access to Ortex’s comprehensive Short Interest Data, officials say. The partnership is intended to help EDI clients access “real-time short interest data, including key metrics such as shares on loan, cost of borrow, and the Ortex… Read More >>
‘SIX Fixed Income Data’ Offers Centralization & Integration
SIX, a global financial data and market infrastructure provider, has launched SIX Fixed Income Data, a set of offerings that includes pricing, reference data, corporate actions, and underlying source documents intended to help participants in global fixed income markets centralize this key data, officials say. SIX is aiming the solution set at banks, asset managers,… Read More >>
Iress & Centroid Craft Market Data Links for Brokers
Financial systems connectivity vendor Centroid Solutions reports that it is offering retail brokers new, cost-effective market data connections by integrating a key Centroid offering with application programming interfaces (APIs) from software and systems provider Iress. The new links bring the real-time pricing of exchange-traded products and related transactions to Centroid’s client base, officials say. The… Read More >>
Prime Trading Taps Iress to Cut Data Latency
Proprietary trading firm Prime Trading has implemented solutions from Iress — formerly QuantHouse — to access key data feeds and transaction support services via application programming interface (API) links that boost data quality, cut data latency, and bring down costs, officials say. “Previously, during peak moments of high market volatility, Prime Trading experienced data latency… Read More >>
SEC Reveals Geeky Side via APIs for EDGAR
Wow. Who knew that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had a seriously geeky side? It’s no secret that the SEC and its documentation constitute an endless well of legal gobbledygook that will cure insomnia for many, instill zombie-like behavior in others, and force some individuals into an existential crisis. It is news, though, that… Read More >>
RJO Expands MENA Presence via Acquisition
RJO Acquires Lombard Forte Securities R.J. O’Brien & Associates, a Chicago-based futures brokerage and clearing firm, is expanding its presence in the Middle East via its acquisition of Lombard Forte Securities Ltd. (LFS), a Dubai-based interdealer broker (IDB). RJO, which acquired LFS through its affiliate RJO MENA [Middle East & North Africa] in Dubai, is… Read More >>
Nasdaq Data Now Available via Cloud Service
Exchanges operator Nasdaq recently hit a COVID-19 speed bump as it was preparing to launch its Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS), which uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide access to real-time exchange data, indexes, and fund data. Before a full launch, Nasdaq had to find out if the implementation of the new offering would… Read More >>
