Exegy Incorporated, the market leader in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems LLC (Vela), a leading provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, announced today that they have merged business operations in an agreement backed by...
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Now more than ever trading firms are under pressure to do more with less. Having the right strategic technology partner is critical to not only staying abreast of the latest developments, but also supplementing internal operational expertise.
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With Avelacom as an LME’s network provider, trading firms benefit from the lowest latencies between LME and other global commodity markets
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The growth in market data consumption over recent years has also led to an increase in demand for the right tools to control, manage and monitor data usage, ensure compliance with exchange policies, and follow best practices when it comes to data access and control.
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Delivering access to real-time stock quote and trade information for U.S. equities
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The new link is designed to improve back-up system performance and meets two key criteria – geographic diversity and reduced latency
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WatersTechnology recognises SuperFeed in the Inside Market Data Awards
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With more than 80 points of presence Avelacom makes it easier to access new markets and diverse liquidity sources across APAC, EMEA and the Americas
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Vela’s Director of Infrastructure and Security Stacy Mallon participated in an enlightening industry panel hosted by FISD discussing a marketplace for market data products.
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The route is designed to handle high data volumes, generated by algorithmic trading and provides the lowest latency, required by institutional traders
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Vela’s SuperFeed normalized market data now available via IPC’s Connexus Cloud and Connexus Labs
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Supporting the growing demand for improved and secure access to high-quality real-time trading data in the cloud
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Non-resident and local institutional investors will benefit from improved market access, additional options and ample opportunities for cross-market arbitrage via Avelacom’s low latency global network
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The sudden shift in operating models may well have a lasting effect on operations going forward; what was a long-term strategy, vision or aspiration is now a tangible short- to medium-term project, being delivered as the ‘new normal.’
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A platform jointly developed between BME and the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). LED provides Master Data, Closing Prices and Corporate Events from the main Latin American financial markets
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BMV´s market data available globally through ACTIV’s normalized data feed via connectivity to the BMV NY5 POP
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Last month, before “social distancing” became part of our everyday vocabulary, I joined a panel discussion, hosted by FISD, alongside industry practitioners in the market data space. Our discussion centred around the pragmatic reality of market data in the cloud: what are the techniques and approaches that work, and what...
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Whether a broker is executing a client’s orders, offering direct market access (DMA) or providing sponsored market access (SMA), it is constantly taking on risk. The priority is to ensure that those risks are always visible and never build up.
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This will provide professional trading clients, including investment banks, hedge funds and other proprietary traders using the most demanding algorithmic strategies with more colocation and connectivity options both within and outside of the LD4 data centre.
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The deployment of 7130 tier switches to Options’ managed colocation platform marks the beginning of a new era of ultra-low latency access, with Layer 1 exchange access through the Arista 7130 series.
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Metro integrates with SuperFeed and DMA Platform
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Latest generation appliance more than halves latency, while providing access to US equity markets on a single device
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Options today announced its Platinum Partner status with global interconnection and data center company, Equinix.
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Ixia TradeVision to be deployed across Options' core US data center locations to provide automated alerting across hundreds of multicast feeds
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While the concept of big data has focused on the problem of collecting and processing vast quantities of data i— the trend is moving toward data analytics.
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London ― September 19, 2019 ― Options, the leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, is proud to have been named Best Overall Technology Firm at the HFM European Hedge Fund Technology Awards 2019.
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New York ― September 3, 2019 ― Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, today announced new cloud connectivity services with global interconnection and data center firm, Equinix.
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Extending global venue and asset coverage for SuperFeed
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Increasingly banks are turning to the field of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to extract valuable information from voice, documents, and audio to boost productivity on trading desks. It’s all part of a broader push to gain efficiencies by training machines and bots to analyze language, capture insights,...
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Providing access to IMC’s unique ELP SI liquidity
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Options has successfully deployed colocation infrastructure at the Australian exchanges as part of its aggressive 2019 global platform expansion.
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U.S. lawmakers authorized a study focusing on the provision of investment research for small issuers, a sign they are wary of the U.S. adopting the European Union’s MIFID II unbundling rules which have brought sweeping changes to the research business
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Combining IHS Markit and FlexTrade’s expertise in the execution and order management system space provides sophisticated and global cross-asset trading capabilities delivered seamlessly across the entire trading lifecycle.
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Eighteen months after MiFID II rules to unbundle research payments from executions have been in force in Europe, U.S. asset managers are dealing with uncertainty around paying for research, but they are waiting for further guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Latest FlexAdvantage blog by Ivy Schmerken examines trends in buy side use of data analysis to evaluate broker and execution performance.
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Options Announces New Global Managed Colocation Facilities with ASX at ALC
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Leveraging Enyx’s FPGA-enabled technology within Vela’s electronic trading stack
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Fundamental investment managers are mining alternative data, but some worry that the same data sets have been sold to too many people and the strategies may be overcrowded.
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With a new contractor taking over the Consolidated Audit Trail project in March, the order-tracking system for all U.S. stock and option trading activity is pushing ahead with equities testing starting in December and a go-live date of April 2020.
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Delivering execution and market data in the JPX co-location space in Tokyo
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Adding European recognition to consecutive North American wins
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The partnership now provides clients with an ultra-low latency market data stream and facility to store and query that data in addition to various advanced analytics
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New Direct Low Latency Connectivity To Hong Kong, Korea and Sydney Exchanges
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Leveraging sophisticated routing strategies to achieve best execution
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Marco Bianchi, FlexTrade’s Head of Futures Business Development, discusses current trends and changes in the Derivatives markets for 2019.
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Recognized in the Fund Technology and WSL Awards 2019 for its high-performance, low latency market access platform
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What’s in a Compliant Private Cloud
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Managed Services Maintains Record of Excellence For Industry Accreditations
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Amid all the fire and fury of the battle over costs, there are signs that buy-and sell-side firms have shifted some of their execution needs for data over to consolidated market data feeds.
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With volatility spiking in global stock and bond markets, there’s been a profound shift in market psychology from chasing higher yields to focusing on risk in the credit markets, according to a recent webinar.
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New contract extends the existing relationship, giving The Mexican Stock Exchange, global reach via the BT Radianz Cloud.
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The addition of the industry leading JANUS suite, to Options’ expansive list of available services will see the firm align its low latency trading platform with fully detailed real time analytics, thus bolstering the firm’s data analytics and monitoring tools.
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Banks and investment firms have increased their consumption of alternative data sets, but there are still challenges around selecting the most relevant data for trading purposes, according to panelists at a recent industry fintech conference.
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Avelacom expands its network into Equinix data centers to deliver the lowest latency capabilities between London and Tokyo
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Despite a one-year delay and other missed deadlines, the order-tracking system known as the Consolidated Audit Trail is back on track as exchanges were due to begin reporting required equities and options data into the CAT on Nov. 15.
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In the past year Avelacom has seen double-digit growth in new business volumes coming from the APAC region, driven by clients demanding professional grade connectivity services between APAC venues and exchanges, and to those in Europe and the USA.
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Despite some of the weaknesses in company-published ESG data, big data and artificial intelligence have enabled the construction of new data sets for analyzing investments.
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In the future, analysts will consult artificial intelligence software to crunch big data, find historical precedents, and run statistics to predict what lies ahead, all within a few minutes.
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Asset managers are looking for ways to mine alternative data sets for investment ideas, recognizing that stock pickers cannot rely on traditional research.
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Capitalizes on established financial services ecosystem and leverages interconnection at the state-of-the-art data center
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New venues extend normalized market data feed coverage
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Our Head of Asia Pacific, Matthew Lempriere, discusses mutual market access, infrastructure and the next growth opportunity in China.
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Vela announced the successful rollout of the latest version of SMDS, its flagship ticker plant software, to all clients globally. This marks a significant milestone in Vela’s 2018 roadmap, delivering a number of key client-driven enhancements across the full Vela Stack.
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Vela today announced a partnership with CoinMarketCap, the world’s most trusted and accurate source of data for cryptocurrencies. This exclusive agreement marks a new addition to the asset class coverage for Vela’s Market Data Feed service, SuperFeed.
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Corporate bond investors are seeking operational efficiencies on their fixed income trading desks to lower costs.
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Russo joins the New York team as VP, Product Management where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s Managed Application services.
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Options Appoints Former NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems Executive To Management Team
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In the next five to 10 years, don’t be shocked if hedge funds begin to outsource their algorithms to a team of quants coding in Python using the cloud and open source tools.
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Over 200 market participants have signed the FX Global Code of Conduct, a voluntary set of principles published a year ago to restore trust and curb bad behavior in the wholesale foreign exchange market.
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We’re proud to have been shortlisted in the Best High-Performance Network Services category in the International Trading Technology awards.
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Great news! We’ve entered the Waters Technology’s Waters Rankings for Best Network Provider 2018.
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GES, a leading financial trading platform vendor in Hong Kong, will jointly organize “GES x GMO Brokerage Seminar” with GMO-Z.com Bullion HK Limited (“GMO”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GMO Financial Group, on June 8, 2018 (Friday) to provide brokerages with better understanding of GES’s solutions designated for A/B Book mixed...
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Vela announced that Development Lead Alexandria McGrath has been recognized as a Rising Star at Markets Media’s sixth annual Markets Choice Awards presented at a dinner in New York last month.
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Avelacom is expanding its footprint in Warsaw making it easier for latency sensitive clients in the financial services industry to access emerging markets in Europe.
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It’s the week of ITW, The Trading Show, and a sneak peek into BSO’s latest move
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The Options high performance managed colocation solution has been extended to Equinix’s Zurich (ZH4) and Milan (ML2) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, offering low latency connectivity to SIX exchange feeds at source and a proximity option to the Borsa Italiana exchange feeds.
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Extending Vela’s Fixed Income initiative for market data and execution solutions to help tackle market fragmentation
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Selected as one of four female executives featured in 2018 rankings
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Combines Artificial Intelligence and Analytics to Enhance Best Execution Capabilities
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Among the key benefits of artificial intelligence is that it can analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data more quickly than humans do, which can boost productivity. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken examines.
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Options offers new Managed Colocation service at Nasdaq Stockholm, enabling colocated clients to avail of low latency connectivity to the exchange’s Nordic feeds directly at source at its Vasby data center.
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Recognized for delivering a high performance, low latency, fully-normalized infrastructure for accessing global liquidity
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The explosion of alternative data sources, such as satellite images, sentiment analysis, and geolocation data, is having a profound impact on the field of quantitative investing. FlexTrade's Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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Vela announced the addition of Virtu Financial, one of the largest global electronic market making firms, to the growing list of electronic liquidity providers delivering market data through its new Systematic Internaliser (SI) Data Hub, part of its comprehensive MiFID II solution suite.
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Providing access to trading and market data from day one
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Recognised for the acquisitions of OptionsCity and Object Trading
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Honored at Markets Media Markets Choice Awards: Women in Finance
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Sun Trading among one of the first Systematic Internalisers in Vela’s Data Hub providing agile access to MiFID II venues through a single API
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We're an FOW Awards Finalist!
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The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a sweeping set of financial re-forms, establishing mandates for best execution and pre- and post-trade transparency. How will it impact Fixed Income trading as an asset class?
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Avelacom opens new point-of-presence at ASX
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“Co-location can shelter institutions against such attacks since DDoS messages are not able to affect internal communication between the co-located entities.” Mr. Vlasceanu notes.
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As MiFID II’s Jan. 3 go-live date draws closer, investment firms are rushing to implement systems that monitor position limits on commodity derivatives, though the majority of the limits are still unknown. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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We've successfully optimised our link between HKeX < > SGX to provide a faster trading route than any other provider.
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Great market data demands quality. Read why Thomson Reuters Platform does more than manage market data for our customers and how it responds to their business needs.
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Data managed services come in all sizes, from in-house to fully-managed. Tricia San Cristobal, Head of Enterprise Platform and Elektron as a Service Propositions Thomson Reuters tells us how with Elektron you can find the right fit for all your market data.
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We've enhanced our Market Data Connect Service to enable access between DGCX and Interxion London.
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Our award-winning global trading network now offers lowered latencies between London and three more Asian hubs including DGCX, BKC and SGX.
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CMC Markets has announced a new integration to its CFD liquidity offering. The company has partnered up with FlexTrade Systems to enlarge the scope of its offering.
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FlexTrade integrates with Dataminr, one of the world’s leading businesses in AI and machine learning innovation, to create a global macro news alert feed within the FlexTRADER interface.
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