Insights
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Selecting a Fixed Income EMS: The Top 3 Questions FlexTrade is Asked Regarding Automation
Technology pain points are pushing traders to seek more efficient ways to trade. That’s the main headline from our recent survey conducted with Coalition Greenwich on fixed-income EMS adoption. The survey polled 60 buy-side fixed income …
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SEC Updates Tick-Size and Access-Fee Rules, Industry Reacts
Retail and institutional investors will soon be able to trade in smaller increments on most U.S. stocks, as part of the SEC’s plan to overhaul equity market structure rules. On Sept. 18, the SEC’s five …
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A New Era in Bilateral Liquidity
As buy-side traders cope with fragmented liquidity and stagnant volumes in the continuous, lit European equity markets, institutions have forged direct relationships with market makers as an alternative channel. While bilateral liquidity has existed for …
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Selecting a Fixed Income EMS: The Top 3 Questions FlexTrade is Asked Regarding Data
In the past year, there has been a significant shift in the conversation within the fixed-income trading space. Rather than debating the need for a fixed-income EMS, the focus has moved towards identifying the right …
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How is ChatGPT Making Inroads on Wall Street?
With the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, Wall Street is experimenting with ChatGPT from OpenAI and other generative AI-based tools to save time on tedious tasks and finding information in massive data sets.
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FX Fuels Demand for Multi-Asset Trading Technology
As multi-asset trading gains momentum on the buy side, institutions are seeking workflow efficiencies and foreign exchange is playing a key role in fueling the trend. In addition, there are several regulatory forces and trends in the marketplace — such as T+1 settlement and the rise of digital assets — pushing the marketplace toward multi-asset trading technology.
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SEC Rule 605 is Final, But More is Pending with Market Structure
With the SEC approving updates to Rule 605 on order disclosure for stock trading, the clock will soon begin ticking on a new compliance project with more granular execution quality data. But industry observers are speculating that the SEC could move forward with other equity market structure reforms, resulting in overlapping timelines.
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As Pairs Trading Evolves, Hedge Funds Grapple with Complex Workflows
n recent years, there has been growth in cross-asset and multi-currency strategies for pairs trading, and the compliance and workflow for those strategies is more complex, which is driving many hedge funds to recognize the need for an integrated order and execution management system (OEMS).
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Europe’s Fragmented Liquidity Challenge
Fragmented liquidity in the UK and European equity markets has posed a challenge for the buy and sell sides for many years. But the migration of volume away from lit markets to systematic internalizers and auctions has gained attention from market structure data experts.
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Driving the evolution of FlexOMS in EMEA
Q&A with Marc Cousins, Head of Product Management, EMEA For over a decade, FlexTrade’s sell-side solutions have enjoyed success in the US market and amongst large global broker-dealers with a presence in EMEA and APAC. …
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Deploying advanced OEMS tech to meet multi-strat challenges
While pod or platform-based multi-strategy hedge funds are proving an irresistible draw for both investors and portfolio managers, their diverse investment strategies and complex portfolios create multiple challenges best served by advanced OEMS technology. The …
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What’s Next for the SEC’s Equity Market Structure Proposals in 2024?
Heading into 2024, US broker-dealers are anticipating a decision by the SEC on its four-equity market structure proposals, a set of rules which seek to revamp stock trading for both retail and institutional investors. But an additional proposal to ban volume-based pricing tiers could inject more complexity into the regulatory outlook for 2024.