TradingTech Insight Brief
Altair Acquires Datawatch
Simulation technologies provider Altair has acquired data intelligence specialist Datawatch – along with its Panopticon visualization platform – for $176 million in cash. The move is aimed at bolstering Altair’s offerings in the generic data science and analytics segment, where Datawatch has strong offerings in data prep, data prediction, and real-time high-volume data visualisation. For capital markets users, Datawatch is probably best known for its Panopticon suite of visualisation tools. Datawatch acquired Panopticon Software in August 2013, and recently made Panopticon Streams widely available to Datawatch clients.
RavenPack and CloudQuant Team Up
Machine-readable news platform provider RavenPack has granted access to its historical data to crowd researchers seeking alpha signals on CloudQuant’s online Python and JupyterLab-based tools. The initiative aims to support data scientists designing tools to improve financial modelling.
Abacus Group Acquires Hedgepoint Solutions
Abacus Group, a provider of hosting services for the hedge fund marketplace, has acquired Hedgepoint Solutions, a New York-based IT consulting firm that targets hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms. As a result, Hedgepoint clients will benefit from the wide variety of features included in the Abacus Cloud platform, such as off-site data centres and a flexible, secure cloud.
TORA Teams with NEX for MiFID II Trade/Transaction Reporting
TORA has partnered with NEX Regulatory Reporting to add MiFID II trade and transaction reporting capability to its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS). NEX operates an Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) under MiFID II. The initiative, which provides buy-side firms with a straight-through-processing solution that reduces the operational demands of the regulation, follows last December’s launch of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) solution to help firms meet their MiFID II best execution requirements.
High Performance and Transparency in Europe’s Exchange Sector
The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.
Survey Finds 100% Awareness of STP Between Banks, Corporates
One hundred percent of the 58 financial technology managers surveyed across 22 international banks said their corporate clients were aware of the STP rate between their back office and the bank, and that over half of them were actively working to improve this rate, in a recent poll taken by software house Fundtech. The interest in outsourcing has grown with 55 percent of respondents saying their institution is more interested this year than last. And 69 percent said their IT budgets would grow in 2005.