The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.
In a world where the financial landscape is perpetually evolving, 2023 has brought widespread discussions around liquidity, regulatory shifts in the EU and UK, and advancements like the consolidated tape in Europe. For the year ahead in 2024, the European market is poised for transformative changes that will influence the future of trading technology and...
Appital, the price discovery and liquidity sourcing technology vendor, has launched Appital Insights, which aims to provide an unprecedented level of liquidity access for asset managers that is not available through traditional electronic trading venues. Appital Insights enables buyside institutions to evaluate the feasibility of executing larger Average Daily Volume (ADV) orders without the risk...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London on September 21st at Marriott Hotel Canary Wharf London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...