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Fixed Income Trading Desk of the Future
Data is shaping the fixed-income trading desk of the future. Keeping up with the exponential rise in data from inbound liquidity, new issues, and pricing services has become a challenge for asset managers in an …
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Regulating Fixed-Income Platforms: Separating Fact from Fiction
The fixed-income trading space has exploded with innovation from electronic trading protocols to new pricing services. In recent years, execution management systems (EMSs) have expanded their functionality in fixed income to provide more efficiency and …
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Algo Wheel Takes FX Algo Trading to the Next Level
With liquidity fragmented across the foreign exchange landscape and regulations like MiFID II placing more responsibility on the buy side to obtain best execution, there has been an increased uptake in algorithmic trading. According to …
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Desktop Interoperability on the Trading Desk
Everyone is talking about the desktop interoperability (interop) movement, collaboration, and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). It’s a sign of the evolution of the modern desktop in capital markets where traders want a better user …
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As Election Points to Turbulence, Sell Side to Rely Even More on Technology
It is conceivable that US equity market structure could be tested again, and brokerage firms will be counting on the resiliency of their trading systems, which is why firms need a strong order-management system with integrated equity and options analytics, including connectivity to a breadth of other broker/dealers, exchanges, and ATSs.
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After Bond Market Turmoil, Fixed-Income Automation is Top Priority
The current workflow with so many “jumps” between platforms adds unnecessary complexity to an asset class which is already fragmented. We’re seeing more and more buy-side firms looking for solutions to consolidate available liquidity in one screen and to boost capacity to automate.
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HFM Business Continuity Report 2020: March madness – adjusting to the new normal
Vishal Pandya, chief operating officer of FlexTrade Systems, outlines how the firm’s swift response to the global pandemic has made it business (almost) as usual for their clients. Actions speak louder than words. If there …
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Intraday Volatility in the COVID Era: Why it Matters
Intraday volatility is a substantially more important metric in this new regime. As the global health and economic situation evolves, more sudden shifts in overall volatility are likely, and historic volatility metrics will be slow to respond to such events.
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Is Remote Work Leading to a Paradigm Shift on the Trading Desk?
Given the market’s resiliency and traders working from home during the COVID-19-fueled volatility, some market observers have questioned the centralized trading desk mentality that has been pervasive on Wall Street.
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In Volatile Markets, Trading Technology Matters
At times like these, two major factors come into play: first, your trading technology’s ability to process and manage the data coming into the platform, and secondly, how well-established automation is within the firm.
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Best practices in algo wheel design and implementation
Algo wheels are the application to trading of the idea of randomised controlled trials, which originally comes from the natural sciences. When you have some new innovation in the healthcare space, for example, you have to make sure
that a new treatment actually works and improves outcomes for patients.