Intelligent Trading Summit: MiFID II Tops the List of Regulatory Challenges
Regulation will have a significant impact on the trading community this year with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) expected to present the most onerous challenges. Other regulations likely to cause headaches include the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s proposed Regulation AT covering automated trading, the Market Abuse Directive and Market Abuse Regulation that...
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses the Potential of High Performance Technologies and the Drag of Regulation
A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit got off to a great start last week with A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney enjoying a fireside chat with BNP Paribas head of electronic execution strategy Kee-Meng Tan. Delaney and Tan discussed the need for speed in electronic trading, the adoption of new technologies and opportunities to look beyond...
All That’s New at A-Team Intelligent Trading Summit
With just two weeks to go until A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in London, we are getting pretty excited about the event’s line up of speakers, who will address everything from the challenges and opportunities of regulation, including MiFID II, to the intricacies of high performance trading; the vendors that will showcase their smart trading...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Talking Intelligently at ITS on February 4
With just under a month to go, we’re putting the finishing touches to the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on February 4. I’ve waxed lyrical about the topics we’ll be discussing on our series of panels (see agenda here for a recap). But I’m also excited about the presentations we’ve lined up...
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: ITS – The Story So Far
Out of the ashes of A-Team’s highly successful Low Latency Summit conference series riseth the Intelligent Trading Summit, scheduled for this coming February 4 in London. Born of the concept that it’s no longer enough simply to be fast – you have to be smart, too – the Intelligent Trading Summit uniquely brings you the...
Calypso Adds Portfolio and Risk Management Functionality to Trading Platform
Calypso Technology has extended its trading and collateral optimisation platform with the integration of real-time portfolio and risk management functionality. The integration aims to support growing numbers of investment managers trading both derivatives and cash securities. The complete solution, Portfolio Workstation, builds on existing Calypso capabilities in areas such as pricing and position keeping to...
MiFID II: Rewriting the Code
Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with...
Smart Order Routers: Transparency Clashes with Broker Proprietary Model
How do you strike a balance between providing transparency into smart order routing so that buy-side firms can understand how their orders are routed and can meet their best execution obligations, whilst protecting the intellectual property of the sell side firms providing order routing services? That’s a question that traders, asset managers and smart order...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s MiFID II Time!
Hot on the heels of our highly successful Trade Europe Now! white paper (sponsored by Interxion and available for free download here), yesterday we released our latest missive on MiFID II. Titled ‘MiFID II: Practical Considerations for Gainful Compliance’, the paper is sponsored by ORC Group, and like it says on the tin it offers...
The Search for Liquidity in Corporate Debt Markets
This is a contributed article from Andrew Howieson, an advisor to FactEntry. Corporate bond markets are inherently illiquid There is now wide recognition that corporate debt markets lack sufficient liquidity to meet investor trading requirements. Blackrock’s September 2014 paper Corporate Bond Market Structure: The Time for Reform is Now described the trading market structure as...