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Propellant Digital and FlexTrade Collaborate to Deliver Actionable Pre-Trade Insights to T. Rowe Price’s Fixed Income Trading Teams
October 2, 2024
T. Rowe’s Trading Teams will take advantage of Propellant’s advanced technology solution. London and Amsterdam, October 2nd, 2024 – FlexTrade Systems (FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, and Propellant Digital …
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The SEC’s ATS Transparency Rules: What’s the Impact?
The SEC’s new proposed rules on transparency in alternative trading systems are going to shine a light on the operations of dark pools, ensuring fair access to information for all market participants.
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FXCM Integrates CFD Pricing into FlexTrade’s Technology
FXCM and FlexTrade Systems today announced the integration of FXCM’s CFD pricing into FlexTrade’s OMS and retail trading technology.
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FX Liquidity and Technology — An Ecosystem in Flux
Change is accelerating in the electronic foreign exchange markets. With the fixing scandal and the currency rigging cases resulting in multi-billion dollar bank fines, investors are choosing a mix of liquidity providers or venues in an FX ecosystem that has become more complex.
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FlexTrade Expands FX Sales Staff for EMEA Region
FlexTrade Systems today announced the appointments of Glen Sargeant and Marek Lewandowski as FX Sales Managers for the company’s EMEA region. Based in the company’s London office, Sargeant will be responsible for buy-side client acquisition while Lewandowski will focus on cross asset acquisition opportunities with a specific focus on the FX space.
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Execution Management Systems Come of Age
According to Jamie Benincasa, FlexTrade’s senior vice-president of global sales, this trend has gathered pace during the past 18 months and is likely to continue as larger buy-side firms choose to upgrade systems to achieve even greater efficiencies in their FX trading workflow.
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Buy-Side Backs Block Trading Venues
Buy side firms have shown signs of impatience with U.S. equity market structure. While they are leery of radical reforms, institutions have seeded a number of trading venues lately.
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TraderForum Equity Trading Summit 2016 (January 13 -14)
Visit FlexTrade’s booth at this year’s TraderForum for information about the latest in EMS/OMS trading technology.
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Equity Market Structure: The Buy Side View
Buy side traders debating the pros and cons of the U.S. equity market structure recently gave high marks to the computerized stock trading landscape, though it didn’t take long for concerns to surface.
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FlexTrade Wins Hedge Fund Award for Best Trading Platform
FlexTrade Systems today announced its FlexTRADER execution management system (EMS) has won the “Best Trading Platform” category at the HFM European Hedge Fund Technology Awards 2015.
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Swap Execution Facilities: What’s Next?
The US ecosystem for swap execution facilities continues to evolve, but not as rapidly as regulators and lawmakers anticipated. Despite the shift to electronic trading, some observers question if swaps trading has reached a new equilibrium. The vision of a buy-side trader sitting in front of a screen with the ability to anonymously click on streaming prices from multiple SEFs could be several years away. However, new liquidity providers could be catalysts for change in market structure, suggested speakers at a recent webinar.
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SEF Trading: Challenges and Regulatory Hurdles
The regulatory overhaul of the OTC derivatives market has brought mandatory clearing and electronic trading to standardized swaps, but many say the market structure is stuck, citing regulatory ambiguity and separate liquidity pools.