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Alt Data: A Work in Progress
Banks and investment firms have increased their consumption of alternative data sets, but there are still challenges around selecting the most relevant data for trading purposes, according to panelists at a recent industry fintech conference.
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FlexTrade Shortlisted in Four Categories of Fund Technology and WSL Awards 2019
FlexTrade is pleased to announce it has been shortlisted in four categories of the Fund Technology & WSL Awards 2019.
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FlexTrade Wins The Trade’s EMS Best Product Adaptability Award 2018
FlexTrade today announced it has won the EMS Best Product Adaptability category at the TRADE’s Leaders in Trading awards ceremony, which was held at the Savoy in London on November 23rd. Hosted by the TRADE, 250 …
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Beyond Broker Scorecards: What’s Next for Algo Wheels?
Trading involves a bewildering number of individual choices. Each order could be traded in a huge number of different ways and every market participant gets to witness the outcomes. Everyone gets the experience, but do they also get the lesson? As an industry, do we structure our decision making so that we can best evaluate which strategies are working?
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CAT is Out of the Bag
Despite a one-year delay and other missed deadlines, the order-tracking system known as the Consolidated Audit Trail is back on track as exchanges were due to begin reporting required equities and options data into the CAT on Nov. 15.
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FX: The Rise of Quality Execution Analysis
FlexTrade’s Vinay Trivedi, Senior Vice President, FX Strategic Initiatives, discusses the use of quality execution analysis (QEA), a subset of transaction cost analysis (TCA), in FX best execution.
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FlexTrade Notches Two Buy-Side Technology Awards for 2018
FlexTrade wins two award categories — Best Buy-Side EMS and Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm (Trading & Risk) — at the Waters Buy-Side Technology Awards 2018,
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FlexTrade Integrates Bernstein Cube into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade today announced the integration of the Bernstein Cube into the FlexTRADER EMS, which will provide traders with a comprehensive portfolio construction, risk analysis and pre-trade system right from the blotter.
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BIG Data: Getting Granular with ESG Factors
Despite some of the weaknesses in company-published ESG data, big data and artificial intelligence have enabled the construction of new data sets for analyzing investments.
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A.I. on the Fast Track
In the future, analysts will consult artificial intelligence software to crunch big data, find historical precedents, and run statistics to predict what lies ahead, all within a few minutes.
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FlexTrade Wins Two Mutual Fund Service and Technology Awards for 2018
FlexTrade wins Best Execution Management System (EMS) and Best FX Trading System Awards at Mutual Fund Service and Technology Awards 2018 on October 4.
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Data Science Platforms Help the Buy Side Integrate Alternative Data
Asset managers are looking for ways to mine alternative data sets for investment ideas, recognizing that stock pickers cannot rely on traditional research.