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Venture Capital vs Private Funding

If you're currently seeking to raise capital for your business, it's worth knowing the difference between venture capital and private funding. Both are valid methods to help finance companies. The term venture capital refers to any capital investors put in projects classified as risky. These are generally brand new businesses or ones that go thro...

16 August 2019 /inclusion

Charlotte Longman Director at ACA Compliance Group

Market Abuse Regulation three years on: is this still a priority for the regulator?

Charlotte Longman, Senior Principal Consultant, ACA Compliance Group This week marks three years since the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) overhauled the civil market abuse regime across Europe, repealing and replacing the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) and the UK’s own domestic legislation. Developed in parallel with the revised Markets in Financial I...

16 August 2019 /regulation

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Re-Shaping Risk Management with RegTech's Emerging Technologies

Complying with regulations is becoming a more complex and cross-functional effort. Due to the growing importance of cyber security and the increased regulatory requirements, financial firms are employing emerging technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cognitive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to stay ahead of

25 June 2019 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Singapore Spurs Development of FX Trading Hub & Ecosystem

With the uptick in Asian currency trading and the growth of electronic trading, Singapore’s regulator is working with the financial industry to build an FX trading hub and expand FX market infrastructure, a move to improve liquidity and price discovery during Asian trading hours. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is offering financial ince...

17 June 2019 /regulation

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Why FIX Session Testing is so crucial for a Trading Infrastructure

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 lowest operational cost. Over the period, trading operations are converted into complex grids of various multiple applications with diversified techn...

06 June 2019

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Buy Side Savviness for Data Analysis Shakes Up Broker Allocations

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 context for a recent Greenwich Associates webinar “Best Execution: How the Buy Side Measures it, How the Sell Side Produces it.” Panelists discussed t...

05 June 2019 /regulation

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Leveraging FIX Protocol to automate manual IPO Processes

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 digitizing of IPO Processes like submitting applications and receiving allocations are currently in manual process, which increases risk. These manual...

24 May 2019

Stephen Murphy CEO & Co-Founder at Genesis Global Technology

Managing Complex Data Sets: Real-time solutions for mini-prime brokers

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 evolve over the last couple of years. New, smaller hedge funds and high-net-worth individual investors have driven the creation of a new segment for mo...

10 May 2019

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Bringing it All Together: Application Interoperability for Traders

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 part of their complex workflows. Financial users are often accessing multiple applications on the desktop, toggling between different windows, clickin...

02 May 2019

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Bond Algos Tap into ETF Liquidity and Efficiency Gains

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 are quite different and will undergo their own electronic transformation. One of the world’s largest fund managers has developed a pre-programmed sy...

18 March 2019 /ai