WatersTechnology.com So long, Sseoms: Vendors vie to onboard Bloomberg clients ahead of April sunset
Sseoms competitors are stepping into the breach left by Bloomberg’s move to sunset the sell-side focused suite of services. This could be a chance for a new premier provider to snap up some business, while leaving others to reevaluate their standing in the space.
It was 2019, and Rajiv Kedia felt as if the stars were aligning.
The principal and associate founder and global head of sell-side technology at US-based FlexTrade Systems, a provider of multi-asset execution (EMS) and order management systems (OMSs), had ambitions to expand the business globally, having just appointed two new London-based heads of sell-side OMS business development for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (Emea).
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Capitolis, an SaaS platform that drives financial resource optimization for capital markets, appointed
James Kibbe as Head of Structured Funding Origination. Kibbe will lead the origination and execution of a suite of opportunities for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and insurers that will enable these firms to address some of their biggest challenges, including capital, funding, and balance sheet needs, across asset classes. Before joining Capitolis, Kibbe – a 25-year industry veteran – was a Managing Director at HSBC where he served in a variety of roles including Head of Rates, Repo/Derivative Financing; Co-Head of Institutional Sales for the Americas; and Head of Macro Sales.
WatersTechnology.com All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage should the exchange move its data center to Italy.
Samuel Wilkes and Luke Clancy
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Basildon, a grey industrial town about 48km (30 miles) from central London, may not bring to mind trading in stocks and listed derivatives, but for the past 10 years, it has been home to the technology underpinning exchanges around Europe.
That may be about to change as Euronext which operates venues in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Oslo and Paris is considering moving its data center to Italy.
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Itiviti’s Blueprint for Success Investing in People and Products
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Itiviti won the best low-latency trading network category in last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. On the back of that success, Victor Anderson speaks to Linda Middleditch, head of product strategy and engineering at Itiviti, about how the firm differentiates itself in a crowded market, the premium it places on investing in its products and people, and its partnership program, allowing it to broaden its range of services to the market
Itiviti won the best low-latency trading network category in last year’s
Buy-Side Technology Awards. On the back of that success, Victor Anderson speaks to Linda Middleditch, head of product strategy and engineering at Itiviti, about how the firm differentiates itself in a crowded market, the premium it places on investing in its products and people, and its partnership program, allowing it to broaden its range
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Managers need dealing experts dedicated to delivering performance and best execution with deep market knowledge and a client-centric approach.
The disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for buy-side firms to focus on operational priorities, including which functions they should keep in-house and which ones they should delegate to a third party. One function under operational review is dealing, as managers look for solutions to rising technology costs and regulatory constraints.
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The move towards outsourced dealing is also the result of a broader trend among fund managers to seek an outsourced solution for a growing range of front-office processes and functions, something often described as the third wave of outsourcing. Indeed, the impact of rising technology costs for trading infrastructure, operational challenges and regulatory obligations accentuated by the pandemic has increased fund managers’ in