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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.
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TradeTech Asia 2015 (November 18 -19, 2015)
Visit FlexTrade at this year’s TradeTech Asia at booth #10 for information about the latest in EMS/OMS trading technology.
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Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference (CADC) 2015 (October 19, 2015 – October 21, 2015)
Visit FlexTrade’s booth at the Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference (CADC) 2015 for information about the latest in derivatives trading technology.
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Buy-Side FX Shifts in Evolving Market Structure
By Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director As electronic trading grows on the buy-side and top dealers retreat from sharing market color, exchanges are snapping up FX trading venues. In July, Deutsche Borse said it will buy …