OMS
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What’s Next for the SEC’s Equity Market Structure Proposals in 2024?
Heading into 2024, US broker-dealers are anticipating a decision by the SEC on its four-equity market structure proposals, a set of rules which seek to revamp stock trading for both retail and institutional investors. But an additional proposal to ban volume-based pricing tiers could inject more complexity into the regulatory outlook for 2024.
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Industry Preps for T+1 Settlement Countdown
As banks, fund managers, and custodians gear up for what is one of the biggest changes in US market infrastructure to happen in recent times, there are implications for global trading desks and higher costs for operations and technology budgets.
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What’s Next for the Buy-Side Trading Desk?
One of the major themes for 2023 is the emphasis on multi-asset trading and the focus on efficiency and scalability across regions and countries. In the past, a trader focused on a single asset class such as equities or bonds, whereas today with the migration to electronic trading, the desk can automate workflows and manage executions across all asset classes.
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Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Selects FlexTrade’s ColorPalette OMS To Support Additional Growth
GREAT NECK, NY, May 12, 2022 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has announced that Mirae Asset Securities (USA) Inc. has selected FlexTrade Systems’ ColorPalette Order and …
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Is Remote Work Leading to a Paradigm Shift on the Trading Desk?
Given the market’s resiliency and traders working from home during the COVID-19-fueled volatility, some market observers have questioned the centralized trading desk mentality that has been pervasive on Wall Street.
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Unlocking Data Silos to Reach the Promised Land of Smart Data Analytics
With mountains of market data, historical prices, and transactions data stored in disparate systems, securities and investment firms are shifting from a focus on collecting data to extracting value from it. But the problem is that most of these huge and large data sets are siloed in legacy system architectures.
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Revised SEC Rule 606 Shines the Light on Order Routing Disclosures
The revamped SEC 606 regulation requires more extensive disclosures by broker dealers about the handling and routing of institutional customer orders including the average rebates the broker received from, and fees the broker paid to, trading venues.
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FlexTrade Certifies with IHS Markit thinkFolio
Combining IHS Markit and FlexTrade’s expertise in the execution and order management system space provides sophisticated and global cross-asset trading capabilities delivered seamlessly across the entire trading lifecycle.
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FlexTrade Increases Sell-Side Sales Presence for EMEA Region
Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani Join as Vice Presidents of Sell-Side OMS Business Development
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FlexTrade Named Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform 2019
FlexTrade Systems today announced its FlexTRADER EMS was named Best Automated Trading Platform for the 3rd Consecutive Year.
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CAT: Moving the Ball Forward
With a new contractor taking over the Consolidated Audit Trail project in March, the order-tracking system for all U.S. stock and option trading activity is pushing ahead with equities testing starting in December and a go-live date of April 2020.
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Wrestling with OMS and EMS Decisions
Many asset managers are wrestling with the decision on whether to keep the order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS) as two separate best-of-breed systems, or switch to a single unified platform known as the OEMS. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.