Further reductions in latency sets new benchmarks for ultra-low latency wireless market data feeds from exchanges
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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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Delivering access to real-time stock quote and trade information for U.S. equities
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Vela adds ED&F Man Capital Markets’ smart order routing to its execution platforms to deliver tailored cross-asset market access solutions for algorithmic and quantitative traders
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In this article first published by e-Forex Magazine, Ahmed Heikal talks about how firms can ensure they provide the best possible environment for their customers to trade as the FX exchange-traded derivatives market evolves.
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There is increasing value to be found in a high-performance direct market access (DMA) platform that makes life easier for new liquidity providers by eliminating pain points, whilst at the same time allowing brokers to rapidly expand their own client reach with new lines of business at no additional cost.
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DMA has become increasingly pervasive across the industry in recent years, particularly amongst principal trading groups but also with an increasing number of hedge funds and other buy-side firms engaged in algo trading.
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WatersTechnology recognises SuperFeed in the Inside Market Data Awards
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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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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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Building on international success with TradingTech Insight Europe award win
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Recognized for excellence in trading support and technology in the Fund Intelligence Tech & WSL Awards 2020
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As firms shift to trading derivatives using SONIA in the UK and the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) in the US, the increase in liquidity and speed of trading is likely to create pressure on the trading infrastructure underpinning execution.
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Cloud for Financial Services: Managed Trading Services to Thrive (Aite Whitepaper)
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In this latest blog, Vela's Viny Bodhani looks at how firms can optimise their market access connectivity and execution technology infrastructure as global trading strategies are brought to local APAC markets.
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Honored in Markets Media Markets Choice Awards for Women in Finance 2019
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The solution offers traders ultra-low latency and on-demand connectivity to cryptocurrency exchanges located with world-leading cloud service providers
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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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Enabling traders to easily access Indian markets
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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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Vissensa was chosen by FBS due to the extensive technical capabilities available which has also helped cater for some very well-known financial institutions around the world.
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– Integrates ACA’s Trade Surveillance Technology into FlexNOW EMS –
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“While algo wheels have gained traction in equities, in futures it is a more recent development and it points to how the buy side is embracing the most advanced tools to automate and achieve optimal execution with an actionable feedback loop,” said Marco Bianchi, head of business development for futures...
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Providing access to IMC’s unique ELP SI liquidity
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Options has successfully deployed colocation infrastructure with multiple global exchanges as part of its aggressive 2019 global platform expansion.
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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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In his latest blog post, Ollie Cadman, Global Head of Product Management and Business Operations at Vela, looks at why it now makes sense for firms to consider a build and buy approach, driven by an API first strategy.
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BMV and BT Radianz
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FlexTrade’s Lee Sherling discusses the firm’s innovative new EMS for hedge funds, FlexNOW
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Aaron Levine, vice president of OEMS Solutions at FlexTrade, considers the challenges faced by hedge fund start-ups and the importance of trading technology for their future growth.
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With the uptick in Asian currency trading and the growth of electronic trading, Singapore’s regulator is working with the financial industry to build an FX trading hub and expand FX market infrastructure, a move to improve liquidity and price discovery during Asian trading hours.
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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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FlexTrade's Ivy Schmerken examines desktop application interoperability and the push to make the desktop emulate the user experience on mobile phones where Android and iOS apps are aware of one another and share data.
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Leveraging Enyx’s FPGA-enabled technology within Vela’s electronic trading stack
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Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani Join as Vice Presidents of Sell-Side OMS Business Development
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Provides One-Click or No-Click Interaction with Prioritised IOI Liquidity Directly from the Trading Blotter
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— Wins Category for 3rd Consecutive Year —
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Provides Buy-Side Traders with Seamless Interoperability Between FlexTRADER EMS, FlexNOW & OpenFin Third-Party Applications
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Delivering execution and market data in the JPX co-location space in Tokyo
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Enabling end-to-end trade processing
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Algorithmic trading has picked up steam in the corporate bond market as fixed income trading desks appear to follow the playbook of equities. But skeptics contend this is unlikely, arguing that bond desks are quite different and will undergo their own electronic transformation.
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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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A FINRA working paper has raised concerns about broker order routing to affiliated alternative trading systems (ATSs), shedding light on order routing decisions and potential conflicts that can impact execution quality. Can a higher level of scrutiny by regulators be on the way?
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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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We’ve partnered with Stake Capital, an emerging leader in the staking services market, to provide highly secure and available investor delegation services.
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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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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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This year’s trading and risk implementation award goes to FlexTrade for the deployment of FlexONE, it’s order and execution management system developed for the buy-side, at boston-based crowd-sourced hedge fund, Quantopian.
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FlexTrade clinches this year’s best buy-side execution management system (EMS) award due to its flexibility, performance and ability to support bespoke workflows through FlexTrader, its EMS platform.
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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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Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange, and Vela, a global leader in trading and market access technology, have teamed up to facilitate electronic access to Eurex EnLight, the new selective request-for-quote (RfQ) platform, via Vela’s Metro Trading Platform.
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SONIA futures are growing fast, but smart technology is needed to connect and scale up with the three exchanges that provide them.
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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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We're the first global network provider to offer direct #connectivity to the India INX International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), enabling foreign investors and Non-Resident Indians to access the Indian market
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New venues extend normalized market data feed coverage
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Test, Update and Deploy Past Trading Strategies Available in FlexTrade EMS and OMS Trading Platforms Handles Equities, FX and Futures
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Electronic trading in the US Treasury secondary market is evolving and shifting, as non-bank liquidity providers and dealers participate on venues that offer bilateral streaming on a disclosed basis.
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The Second Computational Finance Competition (“Competition”) which are jointly organized by Hong Kong based Global eSolutions (HK) Limited (“GES”), a leading financial trading solution provider, and the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter (“IEEE (HK) CI Chapter”), are now accepting registration from students of local tertiary institutions from 6th August...
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FlexTrade today announced that Albar Capital Ltd., a new hedge fund led by Javier Velazquez (formerly of Millennium Capital Partners LLP), is now trading equities and futures using FlexNOW, FlexTrade’s new execution management system.
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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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Several startups are planning to launch either new venues or order types, and even listing standards, to solve problems in US equity trading. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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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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FlexTrade today announced the company received two Market Choice awards — Best Multi-Asset EMS (for the 6th consecutive year) and Best New Product – Execution — at the 6th Annual Markets Media Markets Choice Awards ceremony, which was held in New York City on April 24.
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FlexTrade Systems today announced its FlexTRADER EMS has notched two award categories — Best Automated Trading Platform and Best Alliance or Partnership — during this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards luncheon, which was held by WatersTechnology and Waters magazine at the The Andaz London Liverpool Street on April 20.
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Through the XCore, financial institutions access the most liquid market in the world.
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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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MiFID II went live on Jan. 3 without much fanfare, but the EU regulation is already shifting trading behavior toward Large-in-Scale block trading venues and new venues called systematic internalizers run by banks and high frequency trading firms. FlexTrade's Ivy Schmerken examines.
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Combines Artificial Intelligence and Analytics to Enhance Best Execution Capabilities
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In this new facility, Fortex will be offering hosting services on premium dedicated hardware to the FX and CFD brokers, asset managers and other market participants who are looking to place their mission-critical matching engines, MT4/MT5 trading servers, reporting servers and other system components in secure and co-located environment.
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Start trading JPX today via new POP in ATTOKYO CC2
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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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FlexTrade Systems appoints Paul Thomas Vice President, FX Business Development, with responsibility for both the buy-side and sell-side markets in the Americas.
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FlexTrade Systems appoints Paul Alves Senior Vice President of Global FX Business Development with a focus on expanding the company’s buy-side trading solutions to asset managers.
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Enhances FX Best Execution Capabilities Under MiFID II
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"...Fortex is staying ahead of the game by introducing an MetaTrader 5 Bridge OMX that will help brokers get started with the MetaTrader 5 platform and connect to FX ecosystem in no time,” said Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Fortex Inc.
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With a new head of trading and markets at the SEC, there is some optimism that some of the complex market structure issues – such as make-taker incentives and sky-high market data costs — will be looked at in 2018.
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Data, data, everywhere
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Expands EMEA Sales Team Due to Company Growth in 2017
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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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