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FlexTrade Captures Two Categories at Sell-Side Technology Awards 2018
FlexTrade wins the “Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform” category and “Best Aliance or Partnership” category during this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards luncheon, which was held by WatersTechnology and Waters magazine at the The Andaz London Liverpool Street on April 20.
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MiFID II Post-Mortem Cites Delays on LEIs and Data Quality as Key Challenge
With the rollout of such a massive regulation as MiFID II, there are bound to be some hiccups, but so far firms are mainly wrestling with trade reporting and data quality issues. That sentiment was expressed on a webinar hosted by A-Team Group, MiFID II Trading Technology Requirements: What Worked and What Hasn’t? in which panelists aired their views on the most challenging aspects of the implementation and areas that need improvement.
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Vijay Kedia, FlexTrade President & CEO, Named to 2018 Trading Tech 40
Congratulations to FlexTrade’s President and CEO, Vijay Kedia, for being included in Institutional Investor magazine’s 2018 Trading Tech 40, a highly respected list of the top and most influential innovators in trading technology.
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MiFID II’s Trading Hereafter: Systematic Internalizers & Block Venues
MiFID II went live on Jan. 3 without much fanfare, but the EU regulation is already shifting trading behavior toward Large-in-Scale block trading venues and new venues called systematic internalizers run by banks and high frequency trading firms. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken examines.
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FlexTrade Integrates Kensho Actionable Intelligence into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade today announced the integration of Kensho Technologies pre-trade analytics solution into the FlexTRADER EMS, which provides a detailed, real-time event feed to assist a trader’s decision-making process when executing a trade.
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FlexTrade Named Best Trading System at FStech Awards
FlexTrade has won Best Trading System at the FStech awards ceremony, which was held at The London Marriott Hotel on March 22.
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Artificial Intelligence Gains Momentum: From Machine Learning to Deep Learning
Among the key benefits of artificial intelligence is that it can analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data more quickly than humans do, which can boost productivity. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken examines.
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Electronic Corporate Bond Trading at the Crossroads
The conversation in electronic corporate bond trading has shifted away from focusing strictly on liquidity to gathering data and analyzing relative bond pricing. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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FlexTrade Integrates BestX Trade Analytics into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade today announced the integration of the BestX trade analytics solution for FX within its FlexTRADER EMS. With a fully interactive interface, users can use BestX to analyse their FX executions in real-time, delivering transparency to enable better decision making whilst meeting the needs of MiFID II compliance for FX trading.
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Alt Data on the March with Machine Learning
The explosion of alternative data sources, such as satellite images, sentiment analysis, and geolocation data, is having a profound impact on the field of quantitative investing. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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The Big Interview: Vikas Kedia
FlexTrade’s managing director in the UK, Vikas Kedia, discusses the evolution of the EMS and OMS market and gives his view on combining both systems into a single solution.