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Omega ATS: your gateway to Canada

December 8, 2016

Omega ATS facilitates trading on all the major Canadian listed exchanges including TSX, TSXV, CNSX and Alpha.

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Timestamping – are we nearly there yet?

November 15, 2016

January 2018 is the first in a series of deadlines for upcoming regulations that are aimed at making the capital markets a safer, more transparent place. Timestamping, while not the most difficult part of MiFID II to comply with, is vitally important to many other regulatory efforts as it underpins reporting, best execution and market surveillance. It also offers other benefits beyond simply complying with regulations.

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Service matters: The link between NPS and revenue

October 21, 2016

Colt looked at what drives different aspects of NPS, breaking it down to determine which levers Colt needed to pull to make a difference.

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MiFID II – Can we still wait until 2018?

October 12, 2016

MiFID II – what is the current state of readiness? The first deadline – for timestamping – arrives in January.

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MCO Europe: extreme data storage

August 11, 2016

McObject’s eXtremeDB® Financial Edition is an ultra-high-speed data storage and processing engine optmised for the financial sector.

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The Virtual Markets

July 25, 2016

Capital Markets, cloud, prizmnet, MiFID II

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TRADEcho trade reporting venue

July 21, 2016

TRADEcho is a joint venue between the LSEG and Boat Services Ltd, providing a single trade reporting venue for all MiFID II asset classes.

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SNAP Innovations: trading software

July 20, 2016

SNAP Innovations, a Colt PrizmNet provider, provides multi-asset trading solutions at varying levels of sophistication.

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Algo Testing – are we seeing the whole picture?

June 27, 2016

MAR and MiFID II aim to eradicate abuse from algos. We explore the role of an algorithmic stability testing platform in addressing the new requirements.

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Don’t write off the big FX trading centres

May 17, 2016

FX Trading

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Covata: own your data

May 4, 2016

A Colt PrizmNet provider, Covata offers a modern implementation of enterprise data security that takes into account the necessary policies, architecture and software solutions needed to support secure data sharing and storage. Most importantly, Safe Share is a user-friendly web-application that has the look and feel of consumer apps, coupled with the robust security underpinnings required by capital markets firms.

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OTC Derivatives under MiFID II

April 19, 2016

OTC Derivatives, MiFID II

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