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Post-trade ETD – where all the sticking plaster got used!
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation…
The Next Wave for Trading Infrastructure Analytics
How are analytics applied to electronic trading infrastructure? What is so important about time accuracy? And how can you gain complete visibility into all the transaction processes with a view to answering questions from the business? Corvil CEO Donal Byrne addresses these questions and more, in a wide-ranging discussion on the potential for trading analytics…
NP RTS Group Joins IPC Ecosystem, Connecting 6,000 Capital Market Firms to Russian Markets
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Moscow-based market operator NP RTS Group has joined IPC Systems’ global financial community, opening up access to key Russian equities exchanges, OTC markets, banks and clearing houses. The link with NP RTS gives the IPC Connexus extranet’s 6,000 institutional investor, asset manager, hedge fund and broker-dealer customers access to the…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
State Street: The Journey Towards Internal Efficiency
State Street managing director Nathaniel Rand led A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York with a keynote that opened a window onto the firm’s technology investment strategy, including core goals, key stages and crucial trends in the journey towards an evolved and efficient technology infrastructure. Over the past few years, State Street, one…
Intelligent Trading Summit Debates the Prospects of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency is all the rage in capital markets, but how does it differ from other asset classes, how will it be regulated and what are its challenges and opportunities for trading firms and exchanges? A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City answered these questions and more, looking at both the…
MiFID II Research Unbundling Threatens Smaller Firms Most, According to RSRSCHXchange Poll
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Small asset management firms are bearing the brunt of MiFID II unbundling as they struggle to cope with substantial new research costs resulting from the regulation’s demand that firms pay for analyst research separately from trade commissions. With fewer resources with which to both buy research and implement regulatory compliance,…
MiFID II handbook, third edition – How compliant are you?
Six months after Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) went live, how compliant is your organisation? If you took a tactical approach to cross the compliance line on January 3, 2018, how are you reviewing and renewing systems to take a more strategic approach and what are the business benefits of doing so?…
J.P. Morgan and Citadel Adopt truePTS Post-Trade Derivatives Processing Solution
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter truePTS is addressing the challenges of post-trade derivatives processing with its ‘no touch’ automated solution. Early adopters J.P. Morgan and Citadel are using the cloud-based platform as a lower-cost, digital alternative to legacy confirmation providers. The solution offers real-time synchronised connectivity between all participants in the post-trade environment through an…
A-Team Group Reveals Winners of 2018 Intelligent Trading Technology Awards
The winners of this year’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology (ITT) Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best cloud-based trading environment to best trading analytics platform and best consolidated market data feed. Consultancy categories covered best specialist trading technology consultancy and best specialist market data consultancy. A…