JB Prime Integrates CQG’s Multi-Asset Platform
Users of JB Prime will be able to trade global equities, CFDs, FX, commodities, and more on CQG’s multi-asset platform.
Rick Steves
Senior Reporter, Regulation and Fintech
Rick Steves has seen business and economics through many lenses. He joined the financial services industry in 2009, and has been a financial journalist since 2011. He holds a degree in Business Administration and has experience producing real-time news, from both buy-side and sell-side, as well as for retail traders, brokers and service providers. Steves' work has appeared in a variety of online publications including FX Street, NewsBTC, FinanceFeeds, and The Industry Spread. Rick has great interest in the dynamics of the trading industry. The never-ending clash between technology, economics, regulation, and more importantly, the people.
February 2019
BNP Paribas Asset Management Hires 3 Senior ‘Quants’
The new members to the BNp Paribas division are Boris Afanasiev, Benoît Bellone and Frédéric Abergel.
CMC Markets Appoints Industry Veteran to Head Institutional Offering for Hedge Funds
Ford will spearhead the CMC markets efforts to provide a more comprehensive service to the buy-side, particularly hedge funds.
Banco Best Led End-to-End Fund Transaction Using Blockchain
Banco Best and Credit Suisse Asset Management successfully processed live end-to-end fund transactions using blockchain-based platform FundsDLT.
Velocimetrics Reduces Tick-to-Trade Latency by 90% to 10μs
Velocimetrics, a leader in business flow tracking and real-time has partnered with Napatech in order to reduce its tick-to-trade latency.
Market Surveillance Firms Eventus and Sterling Join Forces
Eventus Systems has integrated the Sterling Trading Tech’s Sterling Cloud-Based Analytics Engine (SRE) into its Validus platform.
Invstr Launches Crypto Index Available on Mobile App
Invstr has launched a Cryptocurrency Index to make it easier for everyday investors to follow the markets. It weights assets according to their volatility.
AlgoTrader Partners With Sanostro for Trading Signal Intelligence
Sanostro and AlgoTrader are pleased to announce a partnership to deliver enhanced trading signals to quantitative trading firms.
Currency.com to Issue +10,000 Tokenized Securities for Margin Trading
Currency.com allows investors to trade, invest in, and benefit from real-world financial instruments by directly using cryptocurrencies.
LMAX Exchange Adds Two Executives to Lead Expansion in APAC Region
LMAX Exchange Group has appointed Jason Huang as Head of Sales for the Asia Pacific region and Shang Lin as Institutional Sales Executive for the region.
Gold-i Steals Second Executive from PrimeXM in 2019
Laurence Luo, former Technical Account Manager at PrimeXM, joined the award-winning FinTech company as Technical Support Engineer.
Refinitv Launches Trade Performance Analytics
Refinitiv Trade Performance Analytics generates actionable insights to improve execution performance and enhance trading venues.
January 2019
Broadridge’s Top Executive Joins Board of Financial Services Lobby
Chris Perry, Broadridge's corporate senior vice president was elected to the Board of Directors at the Financial Services Institute (FSI).
Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Adds Another Token to Trading Offering
The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) continues to add new digital assets for trading on its regulated and insured token sale platform.
LiquidityBook Appoints New Principal Software Engineer to Focus on POEMS Platform
The veteran technologist will work closely with LiquidityBook client service team to help rapidly implement client-driven development priorities.
B2Broker Boosts Crypto CFD Offering and Increases Leverage
B2Broker Boosts Liquidity Offering with Launch of Additional 40 Crypto/CFD Pairs, first ones to provide CFD liquidity for institutional clients.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.