Voleo and Nasdaq launch second student equity trading contest
Their plan to promote financial literacy and awareness among college-age students.
Trading Technology
Capitalise goes live with Interactive Brokers
Capitalise enables traders to automate their strategies using natural language.
Equidate re-named Forge Global, boosts Series B to $85m
US-based trading platform looking to broaden its services.
Dinosaur and tZero unleash securities trading on blockchain
Brokerage outfit and Salt Lake City-based firm in no danger of becoming extinct.
Industry brief: FRTB and XVA – Addressing real-time regulatory and business needs with in-memory computing
Fintech companies have already adopted GridGain in-memory computing. Find out why!
Mobile trading platform CloseCross gets $3m funding
It opens the round with investment by Amnis Ventures
Data firm Essentia Analytics brings in £2.5m funding
Provided by Calculus Capital.
Temenos and Bloomberg on same side for buy-side action
The new solutions will provide NAV calculations.
Capis acquires FinTech Securities
Texan firm also reveals new promotions and products.
Calastone to launch blockchain-powered funds marketplace
Coming in May 2019 via its new distributed market infrastructure.
Cloud adoption: the key to agile change
What does agility actually mean in practice for the post-trade market?
JP Morgan finds nice match in fintech Wematch
Trading tech firm Wematch will join in-residence programme.
Laureate turns to AlphaPoint for blockchain-based asset management tech
Laureate’s asset digitisation, investor portal, and secondary trading will rely on AlphaPoint’s technology.
#IGForexChat 3: What does the next year hold for emerging market currencies?
FX trading provider IG is taking a look at what the next 12 months could hold for currency pairs.
Demand Derivatives teams up with GMEX for new exchange and clearing house
GMEX also takes minority stake in Demand Derivatives.
Fidelity launches Fidelity Digital Assets for crypto tech
Bringing blockchain and crypto to institutional investors.
TradeIt and TradingView go for big brokers
Retail investors and traders will be able to buy and sell with some of the biggest brokers.
Goldman Sachs hasn’t dropped crypto trading desk plans
Well… this story has been updated.
TradeIt teams with IBM Cloud for Financial Services
Will help developers add universal brokerage functionality to financial apps, platforms, and websites.
Blockchain Board of Derivatives trading platform goes live
The “world’s first hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform”.
Barclays and JP Morgan lead $14m funding in Cloud9
Cloud9 will speed up roll-out of its SaaS-based voice communications platform.
AlphaPoint’s blockchain fuels crypto exchange DCEX
DCEX is using Ripple’s digital currency, XRP, as its base currency.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank goes live with DTCC’s Alert
Becomes the first Japanese global custodian on the database.
VAKT on guard for commodities on blockchain
Partners with Deloitte and ThoughtWorks for post-trade processing.
Capitolis unleashes FX novation service
In partnership with Citi, HSBC, BlueCrest and Brevan Howard.
Tradesocio’s Alpha Suite gears up to go mobile
Ready to discover Alpha Suite on your mobile device?
Quantopian partners with FactSet to launch Quantopian Enterprise
Algorithmic trading platform Quantopian is launching a new service, Quantopian Enterprise, together with FactSet.
Spotlight: how Alpha Suite is helping fund managers to succeed
TradeSocio’s Alpha Suite has become highly significant for fund managers, brokers and investors.
BCB Group launches institutional cryptocurrency prime brokerage solution
New solution aimed at investment managers and hedge funds.
Coinbase Ventures launched to support crypto start-ups
Coinbase Ventures will be providing financing to promising early stage crypto-focused companies.
Coinbase taken to court, twice
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has landed in more hot water with two federal class action lawsuits.
Nasdaq files patent infringement lawsuit against IEX
Lawsuit aims to halt unauthorised use of proprietary electronic trading platform technology.
Disruptive technology: the post-trade world wakes up
Looking at three pivotal technologies: distributed ledger type (DLT), common platforms, and cyber defences.
ION acquires treasury management tech vendor Openlink
ION heading for a clean sweep of the treasury management software market?
Chinese banks connect with London’s FX market
R5-SHCH Connect has gone live for “closer financial market activity between the two nations”.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 25 January 2018
Starring Coinsilium Group, GMEX Technologies and Vaultbank.
How the internet has democratised finance
Thanks to the internet and tech anyone anywhere can take part in financial trading.
Panama stock exchange tips its hat to Nasdaq tech
Bolsa de Valores de Panamá goes for matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 16 January 2018
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
eToro and CoinDash team for blockchain-based social trading products
eToro and CoinDash will develop a suite of blockchain-based products for social trading.
