Sebi has asked stock exchanges to introduce shared co-location services to cut algo trading costs. Read More

Sebi to consider proposals such as making algorithmic trading cheaper and more accessible, and reducing fees charged by mutual funds to unit holders. Read More

Long Blockchain Corp. Agrees to Acquire Hashcove, a UK-Based Company Building Distributed Ledger Technologies for Financial Markets. Read More

Object Trading has integrated with uTrade, an independent trading screen vendor. Read More

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Mumbai: India's capital market regulator said on Friday it was considering tightening rules for algorithmic trading, citing concerns about fair access to markets. Read More

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed seven new ways to level the playing field between those using high frequency trading (HFT) systems and regular market users. In a discussion paper released on Friday, the capital market regulator said it is “examining various options to allay the fear and concern of unfair and inequitable access to the trading systems of exchanges”. Read More

On August 5, Sebi released a discussion paper to tighten regulations on algo trading to ensure fair play and has sought public comments by August 31. ET explains the importance of algo trading and the impact if the measures are implemented. Read More

Today when a retail investor goes to the market, buys share, gets done within a second. It is not by magic. It is by technology behind the depth that is provided by algo and HFT players and they are there for a reason to help match the prices across different investors and help provide the tighter spreads.

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MUMBAI (NewsRise) -- India's capital markets regulator recently proposed measures to tighten regulations on algorithmic trading to ensure equal and fair access to all market participants, but traders are concerned the steps may pose a threat to prevalent liquidity available on the exchanges. Read More

MUMBAI: With Sebi looking at stricter norms to regulate high-frequency trades (HFT), leading algo trading system providers say the usage of this technology is set to surge in the country and be at par with developed economies. Read More

Chandigarh–based start-up uTrade Solutions, which sells data analytics, trading platforms and algorithms, has launched a product that allows stock exchange trades to be cleared and settled instantaneously. Read More

What a year 2016 is turning out to be from the viewpoint of India’s Startup ecosystem! The year got off to a ‘Big-Bang’ start with the Prime Minister outlining the Startup India Action Plan, indicative of the significance his government has ascribed to startups as job creators and growth stimulators. Read More

Technology has revolutionized the financial sectors too. In this sector, uTrade Solutions is one such leading financial technology company headquartered in Chandigarh, India providing open source online and mobile trading platforms for retail brokers, algorithmic trading software for institutions and proprietary traders along with comprehensive risk management solutions. Read More

Kunal Nandwani is the co-founder and CEO of uTrade Solutions, an India-based fintech startup kick-started in 2011. uTrade is an open source trading platform available both on desktop and mobile, for retail brokers, algorithmic trading software for institutions and proprietary traders. Read More

December 30 last year was a red letter day for people in the business of financial technologies. As much as most of us were preparing to usher in the new year with pomp and celebrations, it was a day that marked the dawn of a new era and a 'seminal moment' as Bob Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq,.. Read More

Last month, India based trading technology company uTrade announced the launch of its uClear blockchain solution for real-time clearing and settlement in financial markets. Here, Founder and CEO Kunal Nandwani discusses the solution and how treasury may benefit. Read More

uClear is India's first blockchain technology driven solution that will enable real time clearing and settlement of contracts across the cash and derivatives segments of the financial markets. The first stage of adoption will be led by the Over-the-Counter (OTC) segments without existing central clearing infrastructure such as foreign exchange (FX) and the fixed income securities markets. Read More

While a lot of regulatory skepticism does exist on the future of crypto currencies like the Bitcoin, the future of the technology powering it is sure to find greater acceptance. Read More

Former Lehman employee, Kunal Nandwani, founded UTrade Solutions in 2011, with the goal of creating a tech-based platform to improve trading experience in global capital markets. Today the company offers a slew of products - multi-asset trading platforms, order & risk management systems, pre & post trade analytics, and data analytics products - to clients globally. Read More

Bloomberg TV interviews Kunal Nandwani, CEO, uTrade Solutions Pvt Ltd.

As much as Algorithmic-based programmed trading can be a boon, in terms of increasing the probability of greater profits, the collateral damage that it can unleash, if implemented without a proper risk management apparatus, can be quite catastrophic. Read More

"We believe that the back-testing framework is a useful mechanism to stress test trading algos against extreme events like abrupt market movements, and the outputs can be used to refine the algos so as to avoid errors in live trading, making markets a safer place," said Kunal Nandwani, Chief Executive Officer, uTrade Solutions. Read More

Automated trading impacts markets positively by bringing in greater liquidity, efficient price discovery, efficient order execution due to greater objectivity than human emotion, reduced scope for human errors and most importantly - lesser information leakage. Read More

The article talks about the current startup scene in Chandigarh and also profiles uTrade. Read More

Open Source software has taken the world by storm over the last two decades or so. The article explains why and how Open Source Technology will change the future of Financial Technology industry. Read More

Such mishaps have happened before, despite SEBI tightening its rules for algo-trades, as traders call them. This form of high-speed trading rose 12 percent on the Bombay Stock Exchange, to account for almost 30 percent of total trades. Its share is higher in the National Stock Exchange, with nearly 46 percent of trades happening on the platform. Read More

While such trading is popular in equities, it has picked up relatively recently in the commodities market. Read More

Open Source software has taken the world by storm over the last two decades or so. The article explains why and how Open Source Technology will change the future of Financial Technology industry. Read More

uTrade Solutions, a financial trading technology company has been roped in by SMC Global Limited to enable it to transition its trading platform to uTrade's low latency algorithmic trading platform, said a statement from uTrade Solutions. Read More

Fintech will continue to grow and stay in headlines, but it will be far from the full disruption. I do not see a google or facebook dominating the fintech yet. It will continue to be highly fragmented with various small'ish leaders driving the disruptions. Higher VC capital getting allocated to Fintech shall lead to some key leaders emerge by the end of this decade. Read More

Kunal Nandwani, CEO & Founder, uTrade Solutions demystifies some of the common myths associated with algorithmic trading, and tells us why the recent Sensex fall of 723 points was not due to algorithmic trading. Read More

uTrade Solutions, India's based global financial technology company has been selected for Red Herring's Top 100 Asia award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures from the Asian business region. Read More

uTrade Solutions, a Chandigarh-based start-up specialising in trading technologies, has begun to target the London market, as its open source product has begun to attract the attention of some of the City's investment banks. The 35-person start-up, which provides technologies such as trading platforms, algorithmic trading, risk management and portfolio handling solutions, went live in 2011, focussing on the Indian market. Read More

Kunal Nandwani from uTrade Solutions, explaining why Open Source for capital markets technologies is the way forward; at London Fintech Innovation Labs final investor / Media Day 26th March 2014. Watch Video

uTrade develops a suite of open source trading technologies, from execution management systems, to low latency algo trading systems and risk management platforms. Essentially, most systems that a capital markets firm would need. They give it out for free and charge companies for support services. Read More

Investment banker in London with Lehman Brothers. There are few spots better than that to learn the ropes of finance. Kunal Nandwani was at it for five years but his soul yearned to start up. A chance meeting with a stock broker when he was in India gave him a glimpse of what was lacking in the Indian financial market: better technology products. The trading platform used by the broker was sub-standard. This prompted Kunal to quit his job and launch uTrade Solutions from his home office in Chandigarh with three friends. Read More

The Lab, which was launched by Accenture (NYSE:ACN) in 2012, is a collaboration between Accenture and leading financial institutions in London, supported by the Mayor of London, the City of London Corporation and the Technology Strategy Board. It is designed to nurture early-stage companies from the UK, Europe and elsewhere that are developing new technologies for the financial services sector. Annual venture investment in such technologies nearly tripled globally between 2008 and 2012, according to CB Insights. uTrade Solutions provides Open Source Trading Technologies creating a more efficient, innovative & collaborative ecosystem for financial markets. Read More

Seven startups were chosen by leading industry executives from a wide range of applicants and will receive senior level mentoring to help them develop and commercialize their innovations and connect with potential customers at top institutions. Those taking part in the program include: Erudine, FinGenius, Logical Glue, PhotoPay, PixelPin, Squirro and uTrade. Their innovations include advanced analytics systems, collaborative, open source trading systems, and financial control systems. Read More

On the first day of the Destination IT@North conclave, being organised by Chandigarh Administration, Dept of IT, Govt of Punjab, CII & STPI, Software Technology Parks of India, Mohali, recognized some of the best performing IT and ITeS companies of the regions for exports for 2012-13. Read More

uTrade Solutions was selected as one of the top 50 emerging start-ups in India. NASSCOM Emerge 50 2013 Awards were characterised by a mixture of burgeoning success stories and promising start-ups that are coming up with exciting new solutions - ones to watch for the future. Read More

Enabling smarter and faster trading is the motto of the one-year-old company uTrade Solutions. Kunal Nandwani, 32, who founded the company with three friends - Ashish Grover, Harwinder Sidhu and Mayank Mathur - says they provide faster, smarter and more efficient trading solutions to brokers, banks and investors. "We analyse the trading process for information access, trading decisions and post-trade analytics. Our unique trading and technology experience helps us build smarter and futuristic trading platforms,"Nandwani said. Read More

This is to inform all the trading members that the Exchange has on-boarded a new vendor M/s uTrade Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in the Algo software vendor category under Technology Programme with effect from 1st September 2013. uTrade will provide algo ids for Bidding/Market Making, and various other algorithms. Read More

32-year-old ex-investment banker Kunal Nandwani chose Chandigarh to start Utrade Solutions, an online stock trading platform. Read More