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.   READ MORE +

SONIA futures are growing fast, but smart technology is needed to connect and scale up with the three exchanges that provide them.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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   READ MORE +

New venues extend normalized market data feed coverage   READ MORE +

Test, Update and Deploy Past Trading Strategies Available in FlexTrade EMS and OMS Trading Platforms Handles Equities, FX and Futures   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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...   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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...   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Through the XCore, financial institutions access the most liquid market in the world.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Extending Vela’s Fixed Income initiative for market data and execution solutions to help tackle market fragmentation   READ MORE +

Selected as one of four female executives featured in 2018 rankings   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Combines Artificial Intelligence and Analytics to Enhance Best Execution Capabilities   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Start trading JPX today via new POP in ATTOKYO CC2   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Recognized for delivering a high performance, low latency, fully-normalized infrastructure for accessing global liquidity   READ MORE +

FlexTrade Systems appoints Paul Thomas Vice President, FX Business Development, with responsibility for both the buy-side and sell-side markets in the Americas.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Enhances FX Best Execution Capabilities Under MiFID II   READ MORE +

"...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.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

Data, data, everywhere   READ MORE +

Expands EMEA Sales Team Due to Company Growth in 2017   READ MORE +

Providing access to trading and market data from day one   READ MORE +

Recognised for the acquisitions of OptionsCity and Object Trading   READ MORE +

Improves FlexTRADER EMS Ability to Aggregate Orders Across Multiple OMSs   READ MORE +

Honored at Markets Media Markets Choice Awards: Women in Finance   READ MORE +

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   READ MORE +

Avelacom opens new point-of-presence at ASX   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

We are pleased to be shortlisted in the Finance Monthly Fintech Awards for 'Trading Systems Innovation – Firm of the Year – UK'. The awards recognise the true innovators who help drive the Fintech sector forward.   READ MORE +

Lucera selects BSO to tap into four major FX hubs to extend their global reach.   READ MORE +

We are excited to be shortlisted for the 'Innovation Award in EMS' at the Leaders Trading Awards, hosted by The TRADE   READ MORE +

The video demonstrates the details of the integration between the MT5 platform and the XCore.   READ MORE +

Great news! Object Trading now Vela selects BSO as new network provider   READ MORE +

Earlier this week, FlexTrade exhibited at TradeTechFX at the Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos in Barcelona alongside the most senior level FX trading professionals. Here, FlexTrade demonstrated for the first time their recently announced integration with Dataminr into the FlexTRADER EMS.   READ MORE +

Global eSolutions (HK) Limited (GES), a Hong Kong based leading financial trading platform vendor is awarded Standing Offer Agreement for Quality Professional Services 4 (SOA-QPS4) to provide ongoing services to the Government’s various bureau and departments. A contract award ceremony was held at the Central Government Offices, Tamar on 17...   READ MORE +

NPL is expanding its precise timing service, NPLTime®, across Europe through a strategic global partnership with NexGen Networks, the premier provider of tailored, high-capacity communications services to the financial industry.   READ MORE +

FlexTrade Systems today announced the appointment of Bruce Wolf as Head of FX Business Development. Based in the company’s headquarters in New York, Wolf will manage sales and business development for FlexTrade’s FX trading solutions for both the buy side and sell side markets.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

With demand from financial traders growing for connectivity in Tokyo, we have architectured an optimised low-latency trading route from London to Tokyo to offer the fastest route on the market.   READ MORE +

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.   READ MORE +

The algo wheel has burst onto the scene promising to help the buy-side assess, monitor and justify algorithm and broker choices to regulators. The TRADE investigates how the tool works and asks what all of the fuss is about. FlexTrade’s Rich McGraw, senior vice president, global multi-asset EMS/OMS sales, provided...   READ MORE +

Avelacom opted for Metamako's FPGA-enabled, high-performance networking devices. The first Metamako's device has been setup in Aurora Data Center in Illinois providing Avelacom's clients with substantially reduced latency and true real-time trading capabilities to access CME Group markets.   READ MORE +

FlexTrade today released their latest Q&A titled: ‘How will MiFID II impact FX execution for the buy-side?’.   READ MORE +

The Award Presentation Ceremony of the First Computational Finance Competition jointly organized by GES, and the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter successfully took place on 26 August, 2017 at the Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, the University of Hong Kong.   READ MORE +

The MexDer’s POP supports the exchange’s efforts to further expand its global presence as it introduces a new channel to interconnect with the existing ecosystem of financial market participants operating within Equinix’s NY5 hub.   READ MORE +

As margins decrease and costs increase, electronic trading firms need faster access to information, quicker insights and the ability to outpace competitors who always move at top speed. PDF download.   READ MORE +

Providing access to real time and historic data analysis, PrimeXM's monitoring component is a must-have feature.   READ MORE +

All participants were required to use the Auton trading platform, a financial trading software developed and provided by GES, for algo development and backtesting with historical data in stage 1.   READ MORE +

"Buy-and sell-side clients based in the U.K. can now access our U.S. data products directly from the exchange through the Equinix LD4 data center."   READ MORE +

Benefit from India’s high-growth economy with low-latency trading network...   READ MORE +

PrimeXM is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the IFINEXPO in Beijing in September.   READ MORE +

We are excited to be shortlisted in 4 categories in the HFM Technology 'European Technology Awards 2017'.   READ MORE +

Precious metal drives growth in strategic trading route.   READ MORE +

Connect into Borsa Istanbul: Unique opportunities for financial clients searching for ultra-low latency connectivity to Turkish and APAC markets.   READ MORE +

FlexTrade Launches Best Execution Platform Website to Showcase Comprehensive Approach to Trading During MiFID II. Visit FlexTrade’s Best Execution Platform website at bestexecution.flextrade.com   READ MORE +

We’ve launched two new points-of-presence (POPs) in Canada as part of our ongoing commitment to support the international financial trading community with the fastest and most reliable connectivity and hosting services between the worlds’ most dynamic trading venues.   READ MORE +

With demand from financial traders growing for connectivity in South Africa, we have architectured an optimised low-latency trading route from London to Johannesburg to offer the fastest route on the market.   READ MORE +

Vela has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OptionsCity Software, a global provider of futures and options trading and analytics solutions.   READ MORE +

The readers of Profit & Loss have chosen FlexTrade as the Best Liquidity Aggregation Platform for FX at this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, also known as the FoXys, which was recently held in New York.   READ MORE +

BSO has entered into an agreement with CME Group to offer market data, hosting and colocation services to CME Group customers in addition to the worlds' fastest trading routes.Read the full announcement >   READ MORE +

The LMAX Exchange TCA and fair execution White Paper contains highly relevant and compelling information for active participants in the FX market - download preview here.To introduce the thinking behind the white paper, which analyses and compares ‘last look’ vs firm liquidity execution quality of over 7 million trades, watch this short video with David...   READ MORE +

Receives Honor at Waters Magazine’s Sell-Side Technology Awards GREAT NECK, NY, April 19, 2017 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced its FlexTRADER EMS has won the “Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform” category during this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, which was held by Waters magazine at...   READ MORE +

FlexTrade Systems today announced that Quantopian, a quantitative investment firm, has deployed FlexONE, the company’s new order / execution management system (OEMS) for the buy side.   READ MORE +