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David Ratnage Commercial Lending Director, Capital Markets at FIS
With on-demand services and faster decisions, digital lending platforms are changing the face of commercial lending. But digital approaches differ – and as banks transform their operations to keep up with online competitors, they need a technology-driven approach that moves beyond speed and takes them into new, unexplored areas. While digital disr...
16 March 2020 /wholesale /cloud
Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
The March Tiobe Index is out. I follow Java (1, up short term), Python (3, continual rise), R (11, steady mid-term) MATLAB (15, down mid-term), SAS (21, steady-ish) and Julia (49, wildly down?) as my interests tend towards deployment of quant and data science models into production architectures. Some thoughts on these platforms are below. What do ...
13 March 2020 /ai /devops
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
With the proliferation of algorithms in currency markets and regulatory pressure to prove best execution, buy-side trading desks are adopting algorithms to source liquidity and lower trading costs in FX trading. “Adoption of algorithms and TCA has been growing on the buy side for the past ten years”, said Yue Malan, senior analyst, Aite Group durin...
24 February 2020 /regulation
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. A December 2019 paper by capital markets consultancy GreySpark Partners examined the potential for buy-side and sell-side firms to transform la...
03 February 2020
Change is brewing in the way that sell-side order routing data is reported to institutional customers. Broker-dealers will begin collecting vast amounts of data on January 1st for compliance with the revised SEC Rule 606 next year, shining the light on where brokers route U.S. equity orders in today’s highly automated, dispersed and complex nation...
10 December 2019 /regulation
Marc Gratacos Founder and Managing Partner at TradeHeader
Background With the European Union’s Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) countdown clock ticking, the industry is awaiting the official publication by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) of the ISO 20022 format for the standardised reporting of securities financing transactions. The goal of the SFTR is to enhance t...
07 November 2019 /regulation
As a sign of the evolving U.S. equity trading landscape, two startups and one options exchange operator plan to launch as many as three new exchange platforms in 2020, and a fourth could be waiting in the wings. Members Exchange (MEMX), Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), and Miami International Holdings, operator of the MIAX Exchange Group, plan to c...
22 October 2019 /regulation
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
“At the outset let me begin with an apology to those few readers who may take offence to the title, as it (kind of) challenges the existing steady state. However, let me also acknowledge that the true purpose behind penning down these thoughts is to challenge the status quo, and re-wire some of the beliefs surrounding value creation in the post tr...
11 September 2019
With digital transformation in full swing, trading desks are inundated with emails, voice calls and chat to process and analyze. Most of this data needs to be captured, tagged and stored for regulatory purposes. But in capital markets, keeping up with the torrent of research reports in email, quote requests, and chat conversations with clients can ...
09 September 2019 /ai
Algo wheels have become a popular technology in equities trading, but now there are signs that algo wheels are expanding beyond equities into multiple asset classes such as futures. In equities, the measurement tool, integrated with an execution management system, enables firms to automate the algo selection process, quickly switch from one strateg...
23 August 2019 /regulation
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