Insights
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Industry Preps for T+1 Settlement Countdown
As banks, fund managers, and custodians gear up for what is one of the biggest changes in US market infrastructure to happen in recent times, there are implications for global trading desks and higher costs for operations and technology budgets.
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Key Trends in Fixed-Income Trading
In this Q&A, Matt Murphy, Fixed Income Electronic Trading and Market Structure Specialist at T. Rowe Price and Venky Vemparala, Global Product Manager – Fixed Income at FlexTrade Systems discuss the current trends in electronic trading, liquidity aggregation, and adoption of execution management systems, as well as the potential for artificial intelligence to make data-based recommendations.
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Amid Q4 Uncertainty, Traders’ Focus Turns to Data – Inflation, Location and Options
Data on inflation and interest rates is a top priority for institutional investors and hedge funds navigating risk and the fog of uncertainty in the fourth quarter, according to panelists on a recent industry webinar. …
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Financial Firms Explore ChatGPT and Generative AI
The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI last year, and its viral success in responding to human prompts in natural language, has ignited interest in generative AI technology, and has pushed asset managers and trading firms to grasp the technology rather than risk falling behind. Despite concerns about accuracy, financial firms and fintech providers are experimenting with specific use cases for generative AI using natural language processing trained on large language models (LLMs).
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Views on Bond Liquidity, Data and Automation
As the buy-side trader seeks to aggregate a multitude of pre-trade liquidity sources, trading protocols, and execution venues, many are turning to the execution management system or EMS to gain a competitive edge. In this Q&A, Venky Vemparala, FlexTrade’s Global Product Manager – Fixed Income, who is speaking at FILS, shares his views on the key issues facing the buy-side around data, trading protocols, and automation.
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Navigating Sell-Side Trading in 2023 – How to Intelligently Optimise for Growth
By Rajiv Shah, Head of Sales, Sell-Side Solutions, EMEA – FlexTrade Systems Spring is always a time I eagerly anticipate. It brings a raft of large-scale conferences, including WBR’s TradeTech Europe, FIX EMEA, and more …
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Prioritizing Change on the Buy-Side Trading Desk
By Anita Karppi, FlexTrade Systems, SVP – Sales and Business Development – FlexTrade Systems In Spring 2023, the buy-side equities trading community across UK & Europe gathered in Paris, France, at TradeTech Europe to discuss …
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Consensus Emerges in Industry Reaction to SEC Stock Trading Overhaul
Industry participants have weighed in on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposals to revamp equity market structure, with many urging the regulator to take an incremental approach, to implement the transparency proposal and drop the controversial auction proposal.
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Overnight Trading Gains Traction
Overnight trading volumes on Blue Ocean ATS have picked up this year as it expands connectivity to brokers in Asia Pacific and strikes partnerships with order management systems and market data distribution platforms.
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FDC3 Workflows to Unify the Financial Desktop
Over the past five years, FDC3, which is hosted by FINOS on the GitHub repository, has emerged as an open-source standard for connecting disparate applications on the desktop and creating more efficient workflows for traders.
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Macro-Data Drives Hedge Fund Strategies
Experts on a recent webinar said that hedge funds and other buy-side trading desks are coping with faster reactions and market reversals in response to data releases and earnings sentiment.
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What’s Next for the Buy-Side Trading Desk?
One of the major themes for 2023 is the emphasis on multi-asset trading and the focus on efficiency and scalability across regions and countries. In the past, a trader focused on a single asset class such as equities or bonds, whereas today with the migration to electronic trading, the desk can automate workflows and manage executions across all asset classes.