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TickSmith Announces New Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Product
TickSmith is proud to announce the launch of their TCA solution offering. TickSmith’s analytics platform provides clients with a comprehensive library of over 125 industry standard transaction cost analytics.

TickSmith Achieves Amazon Web Services Financial Services Competency as well as Advanced Technology Partner Status in the AWS Partner Network
Montreal, January 28, 2019: TickSmith, a FinTech software company specialized in Big Data technology, announced today that they have achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency status as well as Advance Technology Partner status in the AWS Partner Network

TickSmith Turns Five Today: Milestones
We are celebrating our five year anniversary today and are taking some time to look back at all that we have achieved as well as all the exciting opportunities that lie ahead of us. We incorporated on this day in 2012 and started out in Montreal with the four founders.

TickSmith Announces Addition of New Board Member- Mark Rodrigues, an Accomplished Industry Veteran
TickSmith announces the appointment of new Board Member, Mark Rodrigues, who joined in August 2017.

TickSmith Receives Strategic Investment from Illuminate Financial
TickSmith, a leader in big data applications for capital markets, has announced a strategic investment of CAD $2 million from Illuminate Financial Management LLP, a venture capital firm with a specific focus on capital markets financial technology, to further commercialise our flagship product, TickVault.

TickSmith Launches its Marketplace Advanced Insights Module
TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for the Capital Markets and financial services, today announced the launch of a new TickVault module. “Marketplace Advanced Insights” is designed to help market participants better understand how they are performing, how their peers are behaving, and how they can adjust their strategies.

TickSmith releases a Python API for the new generation of financial data scientists
Montreal, May 18, 2017 – TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications, released an open-source Python API feature to obtain data from its flagship TickVault Big Data platform. Based on Hadoop technology, TickVault processes, stores, and analyzes massive amounts

“MiFID II and Best Execution: The Challenges Ahead” White Paper Now Available
TickSmith, a leader in big data applications for Capital Markets, today announced a jointly authored white paper with leading global data analytics and machine learning platform provider, Cloudera on MiFID II and best execution for financial organisations in Capital Markets.

TickSmith and DataBP partner to provide more complete historical data distribution solutions for exchanges
DataBP, a provider of enterprise SaaS technology suite and services for market data administration and business processes, and TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for Capital Markets, today announced they are collaborating to provide exchanges and data vendors with integrated solutions to manage and distribute financial data.

TickVault Financial Big Data Management Platform Compatible with Thomson Reuters Tick History
TickSmith’s TickVault Platform is now compatible with Thomson Reuters Tick History, providing the buy side community an in-house solution to manage this data in its entirety through one single interface.

MiFID II Best Execution Compliance Webinar
MiFID II regulation on the horizon means financial organisations will need to adhere to the requirements by 3 January 2018. That date may appear to be a long way off, yet the challenge is that traditional systems and approaches are either inadequate or will require tremendous investment in order to meet the regulatory demands. For many organisations, this is just one of the projects vying for resources and budget when it comes to fundamental digital business transformation around data as a whole.

CME Group collaborates with TickSmith to provide customer-friendly access to historical data
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for Capital Markets, today announced an initiative to improve access to CME Group’s historical data by implementing TickVault to power CME DataMine.

TickSmith Adds File Inventory Module to Its Award-Winning Data Management Platform
Large financial data producers and consumers such as exchanges and trading groups already use TickVault to accumulate, centralize, analyze and distribute Terabytes and Petabytes of brokerage data. In its standard configuration, TickVault normalizes and combines data from various sources, runs out-of-the box and custom analytics and provides web storefronts and self-service portals to employees and users as well as seamless integration with in-house applications through Rest APIs.

TickSmith’s Financial Big Data Management Platform Now Live at National Bank of Canada’s Global Equity Derivatives Group
TickSmith’s Big Data management platform, TickVault, was recently implemented for use by National Bank of Canada. Based on Hadoop technology, TickVault accumulates and rebuilds all Canadian stock trading activity and is used for post-trade analysis and back testing.

FIA Presents Inaugural Innovator Award to TickSmith for Best New Hadoop-Based Platform for Management of Brokerage Data
TickSmith’s TickVault Platform has earned the fast-growing firm the inaugural Innovators Award from FIA. Walt Lukken, CEO of FIA, the world’s leading trade organization for the futures, options, and cleared swaps markets, presented the award to TickSmith CEO Francis Wenzel at the recent FIA Expo in Chicago.