New Iress Team to Drive Combined Solutions Financial technology provider Iress has completed its integration of the offerings of QuantHouse — acquired two years ago — with the launch of the Iress API Data and Trading Solutions team, which will drive the sales and support for a suite of trading data solutions and managed services,… Read More >>
Symphony Buys Cloud9 to Jolt Voice Trading
Symphony to Unite Voice Trading with NLP Symphony, a messaging and platform provider for trading firms, reports that it is trying to “tackle true pain points in markets’ workflows” via the acquisition of trader voice/electronic communication and analytics company Cloud9 Technologies. The acquisition will help Symphony “take the lead in front office communications with new… Read More >>
Cowen Uses n-Tier for CAT Reporting System
CAT System Aggregates Internal & External Reports Investment bank Cowen has gone live with a Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) data aggregation and validation process that uses regulatory reporting vendor n-Tier’s Compliance Workbench to pull together external and internal reports, officials say. The system from n-Tier gathers CAT reports from “external vendors and internal trading systems,”… Read More >>
Commcise Launches Commission Management Service
‘Commission-Management-As-A-Service’ Debuts Commcise, a provider of integrated commission management, research evaluation, consumption tracking and reporting solutions for investment management and brokerage firms, reports the launch of CommciseCM, a stand-alone, cloud-based commission management platform designed to help U.S. asset managers and hedge funds obtain a “full commission wallet view of their entire trading activity.” CommciseCM, majority-owned… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs MTF Data Available via QuantHouse
SIGMA X MTF Debuts on QuantHouse Market data provided by a multilateral trading facility (MTF) operated by Goldman Sachs is available via QuantHouse, a vendor of systematic trading solutions including market data services, algorithmic trading support, and infrastructure products. The SIGMA X MTF market data flow from Goldman Sachs will be available as part of… Read More >>
Buy Side Can Access Fenics UST via QuantHouse
New API & QuantLink Access via QuantHouse QuantHouse, a provider of market data services, an algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, can now offer its buy-side clients “quick and streamlined access to normalized real-time and historical data to trade the U.S. cash treasuries market” via a new link to the Fenics USTreasuries platform. The… Read More >>
Quest Partners Leaves Legacy Vendors for QuantHouse
Quest Partners LLC, a New York-based, quantitative trading firm, has dispensed with several legacy vendors for market data and infrastructure services, and is using solutions from vendor QuantHouse for core trading requirements. Quest is registered with the CFTC as a commodity trading advisor (CTA) and a commodity pool operator, officials say. It’s also a member… Read More >>
WH Trading Uses QuantHouse for Faster Exchange Links
Proprietary derivatives trading firm WH Trading is using a single provider, QuantHouse, for low latency access to U.S., European and Asian financial markets and links to multiple data sources in an effort to cut costs and facilitate fast, onsite connections to key exchanges and trading venues. The Chicago-based firm is using QuantHouse’s QuantLINK order-routing and… Read More >>
Northern Trust via CDCC Directly Clears Canadian Derivatives
Northern Trust to Take Part in Expanded CDCC Program Northern Trust Canada officials have announced that they launched a direct clearing of cash and repurchase agreement (repo) trades for fixed income securities through an expansion of the clearing model of the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp. (CDCC), officials say. In addition, Northern Trust reports that it… Read More >>
CFTC & U.K.’s FCA Join Forces on FinTech Push
CFTC and FCA Sign Agreement to Collaborate The U.S. CFTC and the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report the signing of an agreement that “commits the regulators to collaborating and supporting innovative firms through each other’s fintech initiatives” — LabCFTC in the U.S. and FCA Innovate in Great Britain. The heads of both regulators saluted… Read More >>
