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Front Office Trading Trends and Technologies...
In today’s critical and regulation-based trading scenarios, the best implementation of FIX testing is required to meet regulatory requirements and to create an optimum risk averting environment at the...
As asset managers become more data-driven in their analysis of execution quality, they are reallocating order flows among their broker-dealer relationships at a faster pace. That finding provided the ...
The current trending initiative from FIX Trading Community is the new process to automate initial public offerings as the UK regulator reviews technological innovation in primary market services. The ...
Following the massive expansion of Prime Services provided by Tier 1 Investment banks to the hedge fund community in the noughties - now a huge industry - the Prime Services market has continued to ev...
The proliferation of software applications on financial desktops is a sign of innovation in capital markets. It’s quite common for traders and portfolio managers to rely upon multiple applications as ...
Algorithmic trading has picked up steam in the corporate bond market as fixed income trading desks appear to follow the playbook of equities. But skeptics contend this is unlikely, arguing that bonds...
As someone who has implemented and managed a complex trading application, I was inspired write about my experiences of adopting AWS in a front-to-back trading system environment, and how this could be...
A FINRA working paper has raised concerns about broker order routing to affiliated alternative trading systems (ATSs), shedding light on order routing decisions and potential conflicts that can impact...
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) saw a 187% increase in technology outages reported to it in the 12 months to October 2018. According to Megan Butler, executive director of supervision for I...
Why effective and innovative credit risk management is no longer an option... Unbalanced economic growth In the year following the 2008 financial crisis, economic activity declined in half of all coun...
Today’s Technology Enigma In a world of consolidating vendors, shrinking profits and constrained budgets, there has never been a greater need to differentiate yourself using technology. The Buy-vs-Bui...
I was very interested to read the recent announcement from a group of Wall Street heavyweights about the of launch MEMX, a new exchange designed to challenge the dominance of the New York Stock Excha...