Bitcoin & Exchanges – A Quick Primer
What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin. What is it? Bitcoin (known as BTC or XBT) is a decentralized, completely peer-to-peer, digital asset (some say currency, some say commodity) based on open source software that runs on millions of computers all around the globe. Being decentralized, there is no organization, bank, or government that controls Bitcoin. Any internet-connected…
Read More5 Reasons to Stop Building Trading Technology from Scratch
For reasons we cannot fathom, broker-dealers and FinTech firms are under the impression that buying a turn-key trading platform isn’t affordable. It seems like only a small clandestine group of tech-savvy Wall Streeters are aware that building a trading platform from scratch is more resource intensive and time consuming due to the plethora of known…
Read MoreETRE teams up with ETNA to create the first web based Exchange Traded Property platform
Utilizing ETNA’s broker-dealer technology, ETRE Financial creates a new system to trade single asset REITs on national stock exchanges. NEW YORK, New York – September 16, 2014 – ETRE Financial, a real estate financial services and information technology company, recently announced the release of the 2.0 beta version of their web based trading platform, making…
Read MoreETNA Trader disrupts the FinTech scene by allowing developer piggybacking to drive innovation
ETNA challenges the conventional approach to creating financial technology applications and opens their code to FinTech firms looking to build new software. ETNA, a trading platform provider traditionally catering to broker-dealers, announced today that it is partnering with FinTech Startups as well as well established financial services firms launching new software based on ETNA’s Platform.…
Read MoreQuickFIX creators honored with awards from FIX Trading Community
The FIX Trading Community standards group honored with awards the QuickFIX creators from Connamara Systems and Thoughtworks for their roles in establishing the QuickFIX Open Source Project.The Financial Information eXchange (“FIX”) Protocol was developed in 1992 as a result of collaboration by select participants from worldwide banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, industry associations, institutional investors, and information technology providers.…
Read MoreHappy 4th of July from ETNA Team!
ETNA will be exhibiting at the SIFMA Tech 2014 – Come join us!
ETNA will be at booth #1427 showcasing its line of technology, including: ETNA Broker, a robust turnkey broker-dealer platform, ETNA Trader, a web based trading terminal with the best possible user experience, and ETNA Back Office, a fully compliant all-in-one solution for automation of back office operations for broker-dealers. Along with live demos, our team…
Read More‘Flash Boys’ in a nutshell
The PR bluster around the new Michael Lewis book ‘Flash Boys’ is deliberately confusing, yet almost no-one seems to have read it. With the FBI investigating high-frequency trading (HFT), the issues that the book raises are clearly very serious. This is what you need to know. 1) HFT strategy is under the spotlight, specifically latency…
Read MoreHappy Easter and Passover!
May this holiday bring us all Good Fortune and Health, And may we all be thankful for those around us! May the spring bring you Good Luck and Success and We hope to do business together in future!
Read MoreETNA will be exhibiting at SIFMA Operations Conference and Exhibition 2014
ETNA will be exhibiting at SIFMA Operations Conference and Exhibition 2014. Stop by our booth #1003 for a live demo of ETNA Broker, an innovative while labeled brokerage platform with advanced HTML5 web trading terminal, native mobile trading applications for iOS and Android and superior customizable middle and back office. ETNA Broker is designed to drastically reduce costs…
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