With a lot of fanfare earlier this month, Cboe Global Markets, Inc., a Chicago-based exchanges company that offers trading, clearing, and investment solutions, bucked more than a few trends when it launched a hybrid, open outcry trading floor in “the historic Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) building” at 141 West Jackson Boulevard. “We are continuing… Read More >>
Symphony Buys Cloud9 to Jolt Voice Trading
Symphony to Unite Voice Trading with NLP Symphony, a messaging and platform provider for trading firms, reports that it is trying to “tackle true pain points in markets’ workflows” via the acquisition of trader voice/electronic communication and analytics company Cloud9 Technologies. The acquisition will help Symphony “take the lead in front office communications with new… Read More >>
Mining the Metadata of Cloud-Based Voice Trading
(Editor’s note: Germán Soto Sanchez, president of Cloud9 Technologies, answers questions from FTF News about the metadata and operational benefits that can be derived from software-based voice trading that is supported via cloud computing. Sanchez also reviews the limits of hardware-based trading turrets that in the past have dominated trading desks relying on phone systems… Read More >>