At STA National’s 86th Annual Market Structure, HPR was in attendance. During the conference, HPR’s Founder and CEO, Tony Amicangioli, spoke with Nasdaq Trade Talk’s Jill Malandrino on simplifying capital markets infrastructure. To watch the interview, click here.

Every day, about 10% of all orders sent to the U.S. stock market first pass through black boxes created by a 50-person technology company, Hyannis Port Research Inc. in Needham, Mass. HPR, whose boxes do risk checks on the trade orders, is little known outside Wall Street technology departments. But it is at the center […]

No incumbent in any industry is truly safe these days. From Uber threatening taxis to Casper waking up the mattress business and Amazon replacing all kinds of brick and mortar retailers, technologically savvy newcomers up-ending the status quo is now commonplace. The logical next question should be: Why should the capital markets be any different? […]

Though Bob Dylan originally sang those words in 1964, they’ve probably never been truer than they are today, at least when it comes to technology. Name the industry, and in almost all cases technology-led disruptors have entered and seriously shaken up the status quo. Amazon’s effect on retail is obviously the prime example, but Uber’s […]

The fear of disruptors extends to our capital markets world. Many practitioners speak privately of what might happen should one or more of Google’s peers – known collectively as the FAANGs (for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) – should turn their attention to the sleepy backwater of global markets. The conclusion seems to be […]

If you trade US equities, there’s a good chance your trades have been vetted by HPR’s advanced risk management technology as, on average, 10% of daily volume passes through their ultra-low latency pre-trade risk and access gateway systems. For the past seven years, the Boston-based company formerly known as Hyannis Port Research has been quietly […]

With Market Data Fees in Focus, Industry Grapples with Appropriate Fix Picking up on the debate that began at the SEC’s two-day Market Data roundtable in October, industry participants at the Security Trading Association of Chicago’s (STAC) 93rd Annual Mid-Winter Meeting last week were divided on the scope of the problem with market data costs […]

Anthony Amicangioli is the founder and CEO of HPR. Anthony spoke with Markets Media to discuss the mainstreaming of cloud in 2019 and what the next watershed will be for the industry. How should the new year be known? This year will be the year that the cloud goes mainstream in financial services. Although businesses […]

The whole of Asia represents a significant opportunity as increasing investment flows are expected into the region and China has been included in the benchmark emerging markets index according to Tony Amicangioli, chief executive of trading infrastructure technologies provider Hyannis Port Research. At the start of this month index provider MSCI incorporated 226 A-shares, which […]

Capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) is now supporting market access to the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect programs. The platform includes its two pre-trade risk products for low-latency market access—Riskbot and Softbot. These two products provide more than 50 customizable risk parameters, ranging from pre-trade fat-finger checks to full organization-wide […]