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Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Corporate bond trading platforms are in the news again. Platforms that have launched innovative all-to-all trading protocols are attracting buy-side firms to their venues. Despite skepticism a few years ago that all-to-all platforms wouldn’t attract liquidity, platforms like MarketAxess with Open Trading and Liquidnet’s have gained traction on the...
04 April 2017 /regulation
David Donovan Executive Vice President at Publicis.Sapient
The year is shaping up to be one where my dialog with leadership within large financial institutions shifts from “I want to do digital” to “Show me how digital helps me become more competitive.” Digital has become table stakes and the asset management industry is now focused on how components within digital, such as data analytics, cloud or mobile,...
14 February 2017 /wholesale
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Liquidation Only. Did your heart skip a beat? In futures and options trading when we hear “Liquidation Only” it means that something went wrong. Someone is losing money. The broker wants all new investments to stop. In the world of electronic trading with direct access through software there is no longer someone thinking about the client and the br...
21 January 2017 /regulation
I have used the following flow diagram (included at the end of this post) to explain to many people how someone trading a listed future contract on a screen actually has money moved into our out of the clearing account. This is a basic view of a normal trade. Each Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), Exchange, and Clearinghouse processes transaction...
13 January 2017
Machine Learning is getting a lot of buzz. I hear questions from our clients as we have successfully implemented it in our trading surveillance tool. We use machine learning to score the likelihood that trading activity is similar to known cases of spoofing, or layering. Did you catch that? We use Machine Learning for a specific business purpose. ...
25 May 2016 /startups
US Regulators are seeking a “Culture of Compliance” among trading firms. Global regulators are increasing their scrutiny of market manipulation. New regulations are requiring broker dealers to know more about technology use among their clients than ever before. Pre-Trade risk controls are actively being monitored. Capital requirements are growing...
12 April 2016
Over the past couple of years I have had the good fortune to discuss the need for improved understand of profitability and capital utilization in broker dealers. Frustrations abound. Discussions on the need to find the right clients to meet the balance sheet utilization mix meander with no clear end in sight. Investment managers are moving their b...
18 March 2016
The Agile development methodology and Continuous Delivery has delivered on many promises. We have all seen Faster development cycles Faster IT reaction times Better prioritization of business objectives Easier balancing of technical and business objectives Regulations New regulations, for example the Regulation Algorithmic Trading by the CFTC, h...
17 February 2016 /regulation
FINTECH, market exchange access, electronic trading, pre-trade risk controls, and compliance especially related to the Futures & Options Markets
12 February 2016 /regulation
Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com
It's quite something isn't it - grid technology - the concept of a super computer at your disposal, able to provide high performance computing resources to your entire IT estate. However, rather than hark on about latency and proximity concerns that also challenge grid deployments many IT managers are discovering there is the spectre of significan...
05 October 2007
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