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A series of reforms over recent years mean that Malaysia’s buy-side is now positioned to catch up with international investors in their use of electronic trading tools and techniques. Malaysia is set to take centre stage among Asian markets as a new phase in financial liberalization and an openness to electronic trading generates an unprecedented …

Buy-side traders used to have limited interest in the workings of an algorithm. Now, is there such a thing as too much information? The common, somewhat dismissive, line on algorithmic trading is that it’s a commodity. Push your smaller trades down the pipe to allow your traders to concentrate on the trickier stuff. Click here …

As more asset classes have tracked equities in the migration to electronic trading, FlexTrade Systems has expanded the multi-asset capabilities of its FlexTRADER Execution Management System. “We started with equities and expanded to FX, futures and options,” said Vijay Kedia, FlexTrade’s chief executive. “As a result, we have created a powerful multi-asset trading platform, while …

Algorithmic trading in FX is a relatively new development, but its not without its challenges. Best Execution speaks to Rob Weissman* for the inside view. How would you characterize the FX market at present? The FX market has been going through a unique transition in two facets: fragmentation and regulation. Click here to access the …

To define terms at the outset, adaptiveness might be flexibility; it might be agility; it might encompass low latency and HFT functionality. Ideally, it delivers closer control. In the real world, FX-adaptiveness also necessarily crosses boundaries between asset classes. BNP Paribas’ Cortex iX FX spot algorithmic execution service. Click here to access the article.

New platform white-labels FlexTrade’s systems and is pitched to high-frequency and high-volume traders Abu Dhabi-based brokerage ADS Securities has white-labelled technology from FlexTrade to launch a new foreign exchange platform tailored to the demands of institutional high-frequency and high-volume traders. The low-latency platform, dubbed Orex, will be rolled out to clients in Europe, North America …

Markets rise and fall, and short-term trends come and go. But one seemingly here-to-stay reality for many trading and investing firms in an increasingly global and interconnected market is the need to be involved in more asset classes, over a broader swathe of geography. An equity trader may move into derivatives, fixed income and/or foreign …

Algorithmic trading firms are seeking to broaden their reach across asset classes and geographies without making capital investments in servers and software. The technological hurdles associated with successfully developing and deploying trading strategies are steep enough without having to finance Big Iron. “While there is demand for automated trading solutions, we believe there is great …

In August 2007, Credit Suisse Advanced Execution Services (AES) offered its FX algorithms to external clients. The move was as much a show of prescience as of good timing: the stated intention of the offer was to enable clients more effectively to locate global liquidity; as we all know, Summer 2007 was when global liquidity …

The Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX) has signed an agreement with FlexTrade Systems to operate as an independent software vendor (ISV) of the BFX. Under this agreement, FlexTrade Systems will provide front-end trading technology via its FlexTrader execution management system (EMS) to the members of the BFX. FlexTrader, a multi-asset solution with pre-defined strategies and tactics …