Ideal Prediction
Trading analysis and data science provider Ideal Predication has appointed Geoff Jones and Jonathan Fieldman to its advisory board. Jones was previously global head of e-FX and spot trading at RBC Capital Markets, and Fieldman was chief operating officer and chief business development officer at Broadway Technology. “I’ve collaborated with Jonathan and Geoff on many […]
Trading analysis and data science company, Ideal Prediction, has named Walter Bell as chief technology officer. Bell joins Ideal Prediction from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he led an international team as the global head of rates e-trading quants. Prior to this, he managed technology teams in e-FX development, cross asset trading and global […]
Trading analysis and data science company Ideal Prediction has announced the addition of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to its automated analytics services. By incorporating NLP with machine learning, the firm says its service empowers clients to create and visualise new analytical graphs in real-time with no coding knowledge. Prior to NLP, all potential cases required […]
Analytics and data science company Ideal Prediction, has unveiled Scope, an automated monitoring service, which analyses the behaviours of voice traders and trading algorithms in line with the principles of the FX Global Code.
The firm says Scope is already in production and automatically monitors order and trade activity, evidencing that humans and algorithms adhere to governance and risk controls. It specifically highlights potential issues like last look, spoofing, flashing, layering, order violations, limit breaches, and P&L flags, the company adds.
In February, Profit & Loss reported that GTX had partnered with Ideal Prediction, an independent trading analytics and data science company, to offer its clients analytics aimed at optimising their FX trading.
GTX first hired Ideal Prediction to optimise client liquidity pools and trade execution performance in March 2016 and the perceived success of this project, combined with the management teams’ strong working relationship with Ideal Prediction CEO, John Crouch, from his time working at Credit Suisse, prompted the two firms to look for more ways to utilise the data at GTX’s disposal to help its clients.
The end product of this was the analytics tool that GTX began offering to firms in February.
