Insights
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Will Overnight Trading Evolve into a 24-Hour Stock Market?
Despite past attempts to usher in 24-hour trading in U.S. equities, a major catalyst behind the current momentum has been the round-the-clock trading occurring in cryptocurrencies which has raised expectations for retail investors. The rise of new electronic trading venues could test these assumptions, though issues such as liquidity and settlement time frames may need to be addressed first.
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ATS Innovators Speed Up Matches to Discover Algo-Liquidity
Dark pools catering to institutions have evolved with innovative methods of matching orders and faster matching engines to avoid moving the price after the trade. It’s also a sign of the intense competition brewing between off-exchange venues seeking to sign up brokers and institutions.
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Facing Economic Headwinds, the Buy Side Turns to Outsourcing
With the demand for increased efficiency and fee pressure from low-cost passive index strategies, in recent years, outsourced trading desks have gained traction with small and mid-sized asset managers. Among the benefits are the economies-of-scale that can be achieved because the capability is set up to act as an inhouse execution desk for multiple buy sides.
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Key Takeaways from Institutional Investor 2021 International TraderForum
Input into FlexTrade’s development and product roadmaps across our multi-asset suite of EMS solutions comes from many sources. Of course, regular client meetings, discussions with consultants, and our ongoing internal investment in research and development …
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SEC Revives Payment for Order Flow Debate
If PFOF is potentially curtailed or prohibited, it could impact retail investors that have benefited from commission-free trading as well as the wholesale market-maker model of matching retail orders through internalization.
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Digital Markets Propagate in the New Economy
Will the trading desk of the future hook into online marketplaces that trade fractionalized shares of real estate, or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on art, sports or music?
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Data Dominates Buy-Side Approach to FX Trading
Senior buy-side traders offered differing views on the definition of high-touch and low-touch trading in foreign exchange (FX) at a roundtable in May, shedding light on efforts to rank their brokers and incorporate data analytics …
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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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GameStop Saga Puts Focus on Inaccessible Liquidity
Now experts are saying that ‘inaccessible liquidity’ is costing institutional investors three times as much in transaction costs, and it’s affecting the calculations made by their algorithms such as volume weighted average price (VWAP) and percentage of volume (POV), which rely on overall volumes.