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Steve talks with Colin Lambert from Profit & Loss about easing the pain of fragmentation, similarities (and differences) between FI and FX and 'David versus Goliath'

Last week Steve attended the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Hong Kong - which was dominated by talk of China (of course)

Last week Steve attended the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Boston, where the overriding theme was the challenge presented by the growing volume of data.

Sell Side Technology talks to TransFICC about its genesis and how it has established a successful business, which solves real, everyday problems for market participants.

There are numerous FinTechs that pitch themselves as innovators. Temenos put them to the test recently, with its London Innovation Jam. Three winners (including TransFICC) progressed to pitch at the FundForum Innovation Jam in June.

Waters Technology voted TransFICC the most promising Sell-Side startup in its 2018 awards

TransFICC has been shortlisted in the category of Capital Markets Startup of the Year 2018

Eight weeks into the FinTech Innovation Lab and we have pitched to over 1,000 relevant people at target banks, including HSBC, Credit Suisse, Intesa SanPaolo, Nordea, Lloyds and UBS. ....with more to come. We provide an inside view of the Accenture programme.

Earlier this week we spoke with The OTC Space , which did a great job describing what we do - "The challenge... is to connect to multiple (FI) venues without spending a fortune, and to achieve high speed reliable messaging at all times."

Stephen Wood and Andrey Nudko have joined TransFICC as Senior Software Engineers, increasing the pace of development the company connects to the core e-trading venues demanded by its first two clients.

Do Order Management Systems inhibit innovation in institutional fixed income trading? On balance, YES....

Shanny Basar at Markets Media writes about how MiFID II is driving the evolution of eFI trading, with expected increases in e-trading volumes and market data - two issues that are resolved by TransFICC

TransFICC has joined Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab in London, a three month accelerator programme for FinTechs to partner with banks, to develop technologies and refine business models.

The unbundling of research and best execution requirements under MiFID II could become best practice worldwide, as commercial pressures are driving asset managers outside the EU to revise their execution processes and policies.

Key takeaways from the Fixed Income Leaders Summit - Regulation, Data, Best Ex, Technology, Fragmentation and FinTechs

Illuminate Financial and Main Incubator, capital markets investment specialists, have made a €1m early stage investment in TransFICC

The FIA selection committee has chosen TransFICC to join the Innovators Pavilion at FIA Expo 2017 in Chicago, to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in financial markets technology.

JMH is a tool to measure Java code that is executed within micro-second timescales. Because TransFICC operates an ultra low-latency environment we developed Influx JMH Reporter to process JMH data - this has now been open sourced.

This week we highlight an article written by Jim Greco in his weekly newsletter, TradingPlaces. Jim's article looks at the rise of e-trading, with venues introducing alternative forms of liquidity and e-trading firms emerging to become some of the largest liquidity providers.

GreySpark has just published the second part of its Trends in FI Trading, which includes a review of TransFICC's recently launched One API for eTrading.

New report from GreySpark highlights the structural shift taking place in corporate and government bond trading.

FinTech is HOT in Asia - Steve and Tom have just returned from two exhausting days at the Echelon Asia Summit.

TransFICC has been selected to join The FinLab's accelerator programme. The FinLab is a joint venture between UOB and SGInnovate.

This week a piece in Markets Media stood out - mainly because it validates our business model. AxeTrading has received an investment of €2m, and Algomi and AllianceBernstein announced they will launch a bond market aggregator. This illustrates the demand for technology that helps navigate the fragmented bond market.