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Quantitative Brokers Partners With CQG to Offer QB’s Suite of Algorithms

Quantitative Brokers plans to increase its staff by 50 percent during 2018 as it faces growing demand for its products. Recently, the firm has partnered with CQG, a leading global provider

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CQGQuantitative Brokers plans to increase its staff by 50 percent during 2018 as it faces growing demand for its products. Recently, the firm has partnered with CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance trading, market data, and advanced technical analysis tools, to offer QB’s suite of premium execution algorithms on CQG’s platform.

Mike Glista, Senior Vice President at CQG, said: “CQG is excited to offer Quantitative Brokers’ popular algo strategies on our integrated client platform. This integration gives CQG customers access to sophisticated trading strategies without the need for custom development.”

Guy Cirillo, Head of Partnerships Sales at QB, commented: “As one of the only independent providers of fixed-income and futures algos for the buy side, QB is uniquely positioned to solve the execution problems facing today’s buy-side institutions. The combination of CQG’s innovative solutions in financial trading with QB’s algo offering creates a strategic partnership that will benefit our mutual clients.”

QB’s offering includes trading algorithms, data analytics, and transaction cost analysis (TCA) for clients to further help them achieve best execution.

Reporting by Rick Steves. Filed 11 April 2018, 13:36 GMT.

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.

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