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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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FlexTrade Increases Sell-Side Sales Presence for EMEA Region
Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani Join as Vice Presidents of Sell-Side OMS Business Development
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FlexTRADER Extends Integration With Goldman Sachs Actionable Indication of Interest (IOI) Liquidity
The functionality adds IOI profiling and analysis capabilities to the existing FlexIOI product and makes Goldman Sachs actionable liquidity available on the desktop.
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FlexTrade Named Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform 2019
FlexTrade Systems today announced its FlexTRADER EMS was named Best Automated Trading Platform for the 3rd Consecutive Year.
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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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FlexTrade Partners with OpenFin for Desktop Interoperability
FlexTrade Partners with OpenFin for Desktop Interoperability
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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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FlexTrade Named Best Overall Trading Platform for Innovation
FlexTrade today announced it has won the “Best Overall Trading Platform for Innovation” at the Fund Technology and Wall Street Letter Awards 2019 ceremony, which was held in New York on February 6.
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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.
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Consolidated Market Data Feeds Gain Traction in Algo Trading and Fixed Income
Amid all the fire and fury of the battle over costs, there are signs that buy-and sell-side firms have shifted some of their execution needs for data over to consolidated market data feeds.