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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.
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FlexTrade Wins Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm (Trading & Risk)
This year’s trading and risk implementation award goes to FlexTrade for the deployment of FlexONE, it’s order and execution management system developed for the buy-side, at boston-based crowd-sourced hedge fund, Quantopian.
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FlexTrade Wins Best Buy-Side EMS at Buy-Side Technology Awards 2018
FlexTrade clinches this year’s best buy-side execution management system (EMS) award due to its flexibility, performance and ability to support bespoke workflows through FlexTrader, its EMS platform. FlexTrader has pre-defined trading strategies and tactics for portfolio and single-security trading. It provides pre-trade, real-time, post-trade and predictive analytics, risk- and cost-optimized portfolio trade scheduling, and smart order routing, among its list of functions.
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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.