Tag: Direct market access

Otkritie Capital, a Russian investment bank, has made a series of new hires to strengthen its electronic trading teams in the UK and Russia.

Swedish agency broker Neonet, a subsidiary of Orc Group, has joined financial technology provider SunGard's global network to offer brokerage and order routing to its 2,300 connected brokers and asset managers.

NYSE Liffe, the European derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, has received regulatory approval from the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, the Brazilian securities regulator, to offer direct electronic access to its London market with immediate effect.

ConvergEx Group, an agency broker and trading technology company, has added functionality to its execution management system to help clients comply with new rules governing market access that come into force today.

Access to Russian equities by international investors has been boosted this week by a number of initiatives launched by technology providers and trading venues.

The London Stock Exchange Group has introduced exchange-level risk controls on its London Stock Exchange and Turquoise trading platforms, as part of a new 'sponsored access' model.

Indusval Corretora, a Brazilian securities broker, has selected trading technology provider SunGard's Valdi trading system for trade lifecycle management.

Fusion Systems, a provider of low-latency trading solutions, has announced that Raptor, its DMA system, has connected to the AMS/3 trading platform of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.

FIX Protocol, the operator of the FIX financial messaging standard, has published a set of guidelines designed to establish best practice for electronic trading risk management.

Otkritie, a Russian financial services group, has chosen to locate servers at the City of London data centre operated by Interxion to provide DMA connectivity to Russia.