Insights
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FX Trading – Seven Trends the Buy-Side Needs to Consider
By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director It’s hard to escape the headlines about FX trading lately. Words such as rigging, currency manipulation, chat rooms and billion dollar fines are grabbing attention and alarming many buy-side customers. It’s …
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Smart Order Routing (SOR)
From Revolution to Evolution in the Search for Liquidity and Alpha Smart Order Routing (SOR) has ebbed and flowed as a topic of interest in the financial industry. Because the functionality has become commonplace in …
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Quants, Compliance and the Buy-Side OMS
OMS Challenges for the Buy-Side As hedge funds turn to a more active, quant-style of trading, they often need to run pre-trade compliance checks on hundreds if not thousands of names within seconds. But what …
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Does Using Predictive Analytics in Trading Really Increase Your Alpha?
Top strategy traders know, “If I can get better predictions of intraday trading volume, my algorithms will perform better!” Indeed how can a trader get better than an educated guess at trading volumes during the …