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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.
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MiFID II: The Buy-Side Transparency Challenge
MiFID II is going to boost transparency in financial markets and improve and broaden best execution standards for the buy side, but not everyone is prepared to handle all the data. While MIFID II standards go into force as of January 3, 2017, buy side market participants have suggested there is not enough time to prepare for the technology changes.
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FlexTrade Integrates OTAS Trading Intelligence And Analytic Solutions Into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade and OTAS Technologies today announced the integration of OTAS Apps and Alerts, including Core Summary, Microstructure, Stacked Graph, Lingo, Express and News with FlexTRADER EMS.
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FlexTrade EMS Named Best Front Office Execution System
FlexTrade wins “Best Front Office Execution System” category at the Financial News 2015 Awards for Excellence in Trading & Technology ceremony.