Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Demand for multi-asset trading on the buy-side has “renewed” the importance of the execution management system’s role on buy-side trading desks in the battle for screen-based real estate. However, listed derivatives centric trading platforms may no longer be the solution that clients are seeking, according to a recent Aite Group’s report, “Buy-Side...
15 December 2016 /regulation
With stricter regulations, capital constraints and technology costs impacting the sell side, large brokers are rationing their services and this trend is being felt on equity trading desks. Brokers are catering to the biggest institutions, while medium and small asset managers feel neglected, according to a recent TabbFORUM webinar based on the f
21 November 2016 /regulation
Disclosure is the rage in financial markets regulation and the latest set of proposals relate to order handling rules. Regulators are seeking to boost transparency into the order routing practices of broker-dealers and trading venues that reroute their orders in U.S. listed equities across exchanges and other trading venues. As many know, on July 1...
25 October 2016 /regulation
Research Disruption? European regulators are pressing to unbundle research payments from executions. Experts say that a regulatory overhaul driven by MiFID II has the potential to disrupt the global research industry. Many industry watchers maintain it will put pressure on sell-side firms that support teams of analysts as well as independent resear...
11 October 2016 /regulation
The UK’s Brexit vote threw traders and investors off-balance and disrupted global financial markets. After the UK’s June 23 referendum to leave the European Union, traders and investors awoke to a global sell off in stocks, a surge in U.S. equity trading volumes, and volatility in foreign exchange rates as the British pound sterling fell to histori...
26 July 2016
Brexit Impact The UK’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union sent a shock through financial markets, but will it throw Britain’s compliance with MiFID II into a tailspin? From a legal standpoint, Britain is still under the jurisdiction of existing European laws for at least the next two years. Prior to the vote, pundits said that buy- and sell-...
29 June 2016 /regulation
U.S. regulators are pushing for more transparency into the $13 trillion US Treasury market after several regulatory agencies found that the government securities market is more opaque than they realized. On May 16, the Treasury Department and the Securities Exchange Commission said they are working to explore collecting U.S. cash market transaction...
06 June 2016 /regulation
Buy-side fixed income traders are prepared to play a more active role as price- makers on electronic trading platforms, as liquidity constraints have pushed them to redefine their role. Institutional traders at Markets Media’s Fixed Income Trading Summit on April 21 agreed that “behavior change” is necessary in light of sell-side firms reducing the...
05 May 2016 /regulation
It’s no secret that institutional traders are utilizing transaction cost analysis (TCA) for equities trading as a tool for measuring execution quality and reducing slippage against trading benchmarks. While TCA first emerged on equities trading desks as a “check–the-box” compliance function, the tool is now pervasive on equity trading desks. Sevent...
12 April 2016 /regulation
Senators conducting a hearing on U.S. equity market structure earlier this month vented their frustrations at the slow pace of regulatory change in equity market structure reforms. At the March 3 hearing, lawmakers repeatedly cited delays in developing the consolidated audit trail, or CAT system, for market-wide surveillance, questioning to what e...
22 March 2016 /regulation
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