Precision Time for Precision Trading
Dr. Jock Percy, CEO of Perseus Telecom looks at precision trading across global market-to-market trading architecture. Source Time Recognition Today the main communication linkage between the US’s...
View ArticleNorthern Trust On Futures Closing Auctions
By Northern Trust’s EMEA Head of Dealing Martin Ekers. Like a lot of passive index managers we use index futures to augment portfolio investment to avoid cash drag on portfolios etc. So when you’ve got...
View ArticleStandardising TCA terminology
By Mike Caffi, VP and Manager of Global TCA Services, State Street Global Advisors and Mike Napper, Director and Head of Global Client Analytics Technology and EMEA Client Connectivity Technology,...
View ArticleFIX post-trade guidelines
By David Tolman, Chair of Buy-Side Post-Trade Solutions WG, Professional Services, Greenline Financial Technologies, Inc. About two years ago the FIX Trading Community Americas Buy-side working group...
View ArticleBuy-side Driving Allocations And Confirmations
Examining the latest developments in post-trade, with Darrin Vallone, Vice President Investment Operations, Capital Group. Status Quo At Capital Group we have a proprietary trade processing system that...
View ArticleA New Market Structure For Fixed Income?
Lee Sanders, Head of Foreign Exchange and Money Market Execution for AXA Investment Managers’ Trading and Securities Financing Division. When you go down the waterfall to investment grade bonds away...
View ArticleThe Changing Desk
By Joe Kassel, Head of Global Equities Dealing and Exposure Management, AMP Capital. There have been significant developments to trading platforms in the last five years or so. Prior to that most...
View ArticleShaking Up The Back Office
In late May, the GlobalTrading journal organised a roundtable examining the current trends and issues in post-trade standardisation and technology. From amongst the delegates, including buy-side,...
View ArticleWhat’s the next frontier for post-trade processing?
By Bill Hebert and Ignatius John of Alpha-Omega Financial Systems. Multiple Asset Classes As with many other initiatives involving FIX and electronic trading, equities has paved the way for the...
View ArticleThe Future Of Trading In A Hybrid Marketplace
Single-dealer platforms are likely to play an ever-larger role in the markets of the future, especially for regional banks, by Paul Caplin, CEO Caplin Systems. Trading was simpler in the old days. Some...
View ArticleA Shift In Mindset
The traditional sell-side execution model is being re-examined, resulting in the consideration of scenarios that were at one time unthinkable. Instinet’s Managing Director Glenn Lesko and Celent’s...
View ArticleChange is the new normal
By Ben Jefferys, Head of Trading Solutions, IRESS Constant change is the new normal these days for sell side brokers not only in Australia but also across the rest of the world. Regulation is the main...
View ArticleFIXing Fixed Income
By Sassan Danesh, Co-Chair Global Fixed Income Committee, FIX Trading Community, Managing Partner, Etrading Software During the past few years, the fixed income markets have moved increasingly towards...
View ArticleRussian Reform; Glacial But Inevitable
By Jesse Sherman, Portfolio Manager, Russian Equities, Renaissance Asset Managers. In Russia the trading of Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) at a premium to local shares is a common occurrence despite...
View ArticleHolding The Cost Of Research To Account
Edward Stockreisser, Chairman of the Asian Independent Research Providers Association. We’ve been talking about changing the way research is funded and charged for five years. Unbundling is now...
View ArticleSaving 20bps And A Lot Of Time
By combining historical and current data and PM trading style to optimise executions, Mark Kuzminskas, Director of Equity Trading at Robeco Investment Management has been able to make significant...
View ArticleThe Buy-side: Transforming FX Through TCA
Richard Coulstock, Head of Dealing, Eastspring Investments Singapore. Developing TCAs beyond equities We began our equity TCA project about seven years ago, so we’ve been working at it for a while. It...
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