Tag: Trading tools

Traiana, a provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, has launched an enhanced version of CreditLink with features focused on buy-siders trading on swap execution facilities.

Agency broker Instinet has added connectivity to Nomura’s advanced electronic futures trading platform to its Newport execution management system.

The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has confirmed a widespread investigation of algorithms, saying they are “out of control”, but there are doubts about whether curbs on technology are likely to be effective.

Take-up of Markit’s commission sharing agreement tool has increased more than three-fold in the past year as buy-side firms react to regulatory scrutiny of commission spend.

Citi has launched its CFOX Smart Execution suite of tools for futures and options trading, transaction cost analysis and order monitoring, as an addition to its Citi Futures and Options platform.

Thomson Reuters has enhanced the range of equity trading facilities in its buy-side front-office solution, Eikon.

A new algorithm from Société Générale aims to help institutional investors achieve better results when executing orders that target a strike price at a specified time in the future.

ICAP’s FX electronic spot trading business, EBS, has hired Paul Allmark as global head of e-commerce solutions, reporting directly to EBS CEO Gil Mandelzis.

Exchange operator and technology provider Nasdaq OMX has extended its SMARTS surveillance solutions suite to the foreign exchange market.

Global asset manager BlackRock has announced a strategic alliance with Tradeweb, an electronic trading platform operator, to create a combined service for trading rates and derivatives instruments.