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BlackRock Bolsters Aladdin Platform’s Trading Capabilities with FlexTrade Partnership
Integration enables clients to leverage the Aladdin platform’s broad-based OEMS capabilities alongside FlexTrade’s leadership and expertise in EMS This release is a copy of the original posted on the BlackRock Global Newsroomhttps://www.blackrock.com/corporate/newsroom/press-releases/article/corporate-one/press-releases/blackrock-bolsters-aladdin-platforms-trading-capabilities-with-flextrade-partnership NEW YORK – …
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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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FlexTrade Enhances FlexONE OEMS with QuantHouse’s Quantfeed Solutions for Market Data
Alternative investment firm Magnetar Capital first to adopt new QuantFEED Solutions in FlexONE OEMS, optimizing executions and data consumption via integrated interface. GREAT NECK, NEW YORK, April 20, 2021 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global …
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Global Market Maker Old Mission Selects FlexTrade’s ColorPalette Order Management System
The implementation of ColorPalette will allow Old Mission to seamlessly connect with its customers via the FlexTrade network, effectively expanding the market maker’s service model as it integrates with FlexTrade’s front end and employing the platform’s fully compliant CAT reporting tool.
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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.
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Desktop Interoperability on the Trading Desk
Everyone is talking about the desktop interoperability (interop) movement, collaboration, and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). It’s a sign of the evolution of the modern desktop in capital markets where traders want a better user …
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Alternative Data’s Rising Star in COVID Era
With everyone seeking up-to-the minute data, analysts and investment managers utilized foot traffic from geolocation data to quantify retail sales and disruptions to the global supply chain. The rise of new marketplaces should remove some of the onerous work of sourcing, collecting, and normalizing data feeds from multiple vendors.
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TF International (TFI) Selects FlexTrade System’s Order Management System, FlexOMS, to Replace Bloomberg SSEOMS
FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, and TFI, a Chinese-based financial group which, amongst others, provides institutional brokerage services to trade in equities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, announces its migration to FlexOMS.
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Multiple Protocols Boost Liquidity in E-Trading of U.S. Treasury Bonds
Another trend has been the mergers and acquisitions of exchanges and bond trading platforms, and joint ventures between fintech companies and fixed-income venues. Exchanges have been acquiring fixed-income venues over the past few years, which is also driving the consolidation of liquidity pools and e-trading protocols.
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Equity Market Structure Wrestles with “Inaccessible Liquidity”
Equity market participants are learning about new exchanges, order types, and periodic auctions bringing innovation and competition to the equity trading landscape. Citing the concept of “inaccessible liquidity,” asset managers pointed to the surge of retail trading by mom and pop investors whose orders are executed off-exchange on private platforms.