Desjardins to enhance its FX services with smartTrade LeapRate

March 11, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Desjardins to enhance its FX services with smartTrade

SmartTrade Technologies multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider, announced that Canadian financial services company, Desjardins, has selected smartTrade’s FX platform, LiquidityFX to provide FX services to its clients. Desjardins was looking for end-to-end e-FX trading solution for automation of its institutional and retail FX workflows. LiquidityFX met all the requirements while offering attractive and transparent flat…

international women's day women in technology sector gender equality interview

March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spotlight on women in tech for International Women’s Day

Sunday March 8th will mark International Women’s Day — and despite progress, the fields of science and technology still experience gender inequality. Below is a commentary from a selection of female representatives from the technology sector, expressing their views on what can be done to advance their fields. These women play prominent roles in the…

March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Adopting Trading for the API Economy

The following article was written by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware. One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any software architecture in an increasingly connected and interdependent world. The introduction of Application…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

IG Group's five predictions for the future of trading

The multi-platform trading company, IG published predictions of what the future of trading would look like. Thirteen financial writers and analysts submitted their predictions for what trading might be like in the year 2069. Here are the top five: 1. Thought powered trading Trading platforms will be controlled by trader’s minds allowing to open or…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

DTCC calls for coordinated security strategy on distributed ledger technology

With the expected growth of distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementation, the post-trade financial services company, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), published a white paper on security issues and guidelines for securing DLT networks. The paper recommends establishing comprehensive DLT Security Framework to review existing security protocols, gaps in the procedures and increase the security…

February 11, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ResearchPool announces a new interactions management tool for buy-side users

The investment research solutions provider, ResearchPool, announced today the launch of a new interactions management tool on its platform that will allow buy-side firms to simplify the processes of investment research and corporate access related interactions. The investment process requires research and analysis, as well as other services from sell-side firms, like conferences and meetings…

February 11, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Equiti Capital teams up with Gold-i, joins Matrix Network

Equiti Capital has just announced that it has teamed up with technology provider Gold-i and will now offer its multi-asset liquidity to Gold-i’s extensive global client base. This latest development from the Prime Broker division of Equiti Capital enables its FX, metals and CFD liquidity to be available through Gold-i’s Matrix liquidity management platform. Mitesh…

February 11, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Autochartist's market analysis tool now fully operational within TraderEvolution

Autochartist, the automated market analysis software provider, just announced that its has integrated its market analysis tool into the TraderEvolution multi-market trading platform. Autochartist's automated market analysis software suite is now fully operational within TraderEvolution and opens new retention and acquisition funnels for all brokers that choose to adopt it. Commenting on the milestone, the CEO…

February 07, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hg invests in smartTrade Technologies

Software investor Hg just announced that it plans to acquire stakes from Keensight Capital and Pléiade Venture in multi-asset electronic trading solutions company smartTrade Technologies. smartTrade’s liquidity management solutions enable financial institutions to develop and run high-performance trading platforms throughout the world. David Vincent, CEO & co-Founder, as well as the smartTrade management team will remain…

January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

The challenges of 100% uptime solution

This article is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The year of 2018 announced the era when DDoS attacks exceeded 1 terabyte on an individual attack basis. The definition of a “DDoS” (Distributed Denial-of Service) attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server,…

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