Insights
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AI: Natural Language Processing and the Battle for Unstructured Data
Increasingly banks are turning to the field of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to extract valuable information from voice, documents, and audio to boost productivity on trading desks. It’s all part of a broader push to gain efficiencies by training machines and bots to analyze language, capture insights, and replace manual tasks and drive workflows further downstream.
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Algo Wheels Spinning into Futures
Algo wheels have become a popular technology in equities trading, but now there are signs that algo wheels are expanding beyond equities into multiple asset classes such as futures.
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U.S. to Study Effects of MiFID II Research Unbundling
U.S. lawmakers authorized a study focusing on the provision of investment research for small issuers, a sign they are wary of the U.S. adopting the European Union’s MIFID II unbundling rules which have brought sweeping changes to the research business.
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MiFID II Research Unbundling Spreads Uncertainty to the U.S.
By Ivy Schmerken Eighteen months after MiFID II rules to unbundle research payments from executions have been in force in Europe, U.S. asset managers are dealing with uncertainty around paying for research and how to …
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Buy-Side Savviness for Data Analysis Shakes Up Broker Allocations
As asset managers become more data-driven in their analysis of execution quality, they are reallocating order flows among their broker-dealer relationships at a faster pace.
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Bringing It All Together: Application Interoperability for Traders
The proliferation of software applications on financial desktops is a sign of innovation in capital markets. But moving data from one third-party application to another is not always seamless and user interfaces (UIs) are typically different. Now there’s a push to make the desktop emulate the user experience on mobile phones where Android and iOS apps are aware of one another and share data.
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Avoiding the Herd in Overcrowded Alt Data
Fundamental investment managers are mining alternative data, but some worry that the same data sets have been sold to too many people and the strategies may be overcrowded.
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CAT: Moving the Ball Forward
With a new contractor taking over the Consolidated Audit Trail project in March, the order-tracking system for all U.S. stock and option trading activity is pushing ahead with equities testing starting in December and a go-live date of April 2020.
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Bond Algos Tap into ETF Liquidity and Efficiency Gains
Algorithmic trading has picked up steam in the corporate bond market as fixed income trading desks appear to follow the playbook of equities.
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Brokers Routing to Their Own ATSs Face Scrutiny
A FINRA working paper has raised concerns about broker order routing to affiliated alternative trading systems (ATSs), shedding light on order routing decisions and potential conflicts that can impact execution quality. Can a higher level of scrutiny by regulators be on the way?
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A Look into Futures with FlexTrade’s Marco Bianchi
Marco Bianchi, FlexTrade’s Head of Futures Business Development, discusses current trends and changes in the Derivatives markets for 2019.