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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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A Year in Review: Top Blogs in 2022
As we look back on this year, topics such as institutional adoption of digital asset trading, European trading in response to geopolitical risk, and the SEC’s plans to revamp U.S. stock trading rules dominated the headlines. In 2022, we covered those topics and much more including the growing sophistication of AlgoWheel, and the evolution of the buy-side fixed income EMS.
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Auctions Loom Large in SEC’s Equity Market Overhaul
At the Security Traders Association (STA) 89th Annual National Market Structure Conference held in Washington DC in October, brokerage executives reacted to the concept of auctions as well as other ideas on SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s agenda to revamp equity market structure. But the industry’s top wholesalers and brokerage executives speaking at STA emphasized that the stock market is functioning well for retail investors and cautioned against making a litany of changes that could lead to worse results.
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FlexTrade Wins ‘Best Buy-Side OMS’ at the 2022 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards
FlexTrade is honored to have won “Best Buy-Side OMS” at the 2022 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards, one of the most coveted categories of the all the 35 awards given during this event. “To be recognized …
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FlexTrade Wins ‘Best Buy-Side OMS’ at the 2022 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards
FlexTrade is honored to have won “Best Buy-Side OMS” at the 2022 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards, one of the most coveted categories of the all the 35 awards given during this event. “To be recognized …
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FlexTrade Scoops “Best Overall – Europe” in EMS Categories at The Leaders in Trading Awards 2022
LONDON, UK, November 03, 2022 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has been awarded “Best Overall – Europe” in the EMS categories at The TRADE’s “The Leaders …
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Access FlexTrade Resource Centre – Australia FIX Conference 2022
Thank you for your interest in FlexTrade! To access the Resource Centre please complete the fields below. FlexTrade Systems is a global leader in high performance multi-asset execution management and order management systems for equities, …
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Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit EMEA 2022 – Key Takeaways
The move to electronify and automate low-touch trading in fixed income is gathering pace. A recent survey from WBR found that 60% of respondents said they use auto-execution protocols offered on trading platforms, up from …
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FlexTrade Outperforms in all 13 Categories of TheTRADE 2022 Execution Management Systems Survey
The Trade News recently announced the results of its global industry-wide, annual Execution Management Systems survey (The Trade EMS Survey). The survey, now in its tenth year, invites buy-side investment professionals to rate their EMS …
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FlexTrade Integrates Glimpse Markets Data to Optimise Price Discovery in Fixed-Income Trading
Seamless and improved visualisation of Glimpse Markets pooled trading data in FlexFI LONDON, October 4, 2022 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems and Glimpse Markets, a buy-side data …
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Fixed-Income EMS Evolves with Data, Protocols and Automation
A key innovation is the ability to dynamically switch between algos and/or tweak algo parameters based on the current market conditions and algo performance. The concept of algo switching is not new; however, since FlexAlgoWheel focuses on order routing, we offer dynamic switching as an integral feature. Dynamic re-evaluation, an advanced feature of FlexAlgoWheel, continues to assess the real-time market conditions.
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Amid Volatility, European Buy-Side Turns to Program Trading and Systematic Internalizers
In the past, European traders increased their allocation to algorithmic/direct market access (DMA) while reducing high-touch trading. This year, the biggest increase was seen in program trading by about 34%.
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FlexAlgoWheel’s Best Kept Secrets
A key innovation is the ability to dynamically switch between algos and/or tweak algo parameters based on the current market conditions and algo performance. The concept of algo switching is not new; however, since FlexAlgoWheel focuses on order routing, we offer dynamic switching as an integral feature. Dynamic re-evaluation, an advanced feature of FlexAlgoWheel, continues to assess the real-time market conditions.