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Cutting Through the Noise: How to Identify True Outsourced Trading
By Andrew Walton, Head of European Business at Tourmaline Partners. More than 18 months into the era of MiFID II, it is now clear how this key piece of European regulation has fundamentally changed the business models of both brokers and investment firms. Buy-side firms in particular are required to have greater systems and controls…
BestEx Research System Offers Continuous TCA Review to Reduce Implicit Costs
Former AQR trading chief Hitesh Mittal’s new BestEx Research Group has launched its multi-asset trading system with a strong emphasis on best execution and lower trading costs. The new platform features a back-testing platform, broker-neutral transaction cost analysis (TCA) and sophisticated execution algorithms, which will be made available to more than 500 fund managers via…
US SEC Seeks Fairer Market Data Access, Deeper Data in SIP Feeds
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is calling for reforms that would level the playing field for access to market data. In a bid to narrow the differential between those with access to high-cost data feeds that contain a greater depth of information, and other investors in the marketplace, the SEC proposals would subject…
IOSCO Calls for Parity on Crypto-Asset Trading Platform Scrutiny
Crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs) such should be subject to the same kinds of standards that other types of trading platforms are, according to a new report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The report – Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms – suggests that regulators look at: access to…
New FX Spot Benchmark Launched by Raidne to Fix Past Challenges
Outsourced trading services specialist Raidne has teamed up with New Change FX to launch a new foreign exchange fixing benchmark aimed at providing an alternative to the WM/Reuters (WMR) benchmark, which has been at the centre of ongoing manipulation allegations. The new Siren benchmark has been designed to reduce the risk of abuse that has…
IHS Markit Boosts TCA Service Down Under with Yieldbroker
IHS Markit is enriching the fixed income analytics within its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service by adding transaction data from the Yieldbroker electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives. The move seeks to bolster IHS Markit’s best execution capabilities for the fixed income marketplace, for which sourcing robust data sets…
SteelEye Outlines International Expansion and Product Development Plans Following Series A funding of $10 Million
SteelEye will extend its presence in Europe, evolve its regulatory compliance and data analytics products, and expand its team after raising $10 million of Series A funding in a round led by Eight Roads, the proprietary investment firm backed by Fidelity, and including its existing investor Illuminate Financial. Looking two years out, the company is…
Join the Debate on Cost and Accessibility of Market Data at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit
Is your firm challenged by the high costs of market data and redistribution charges? Does it face barriers to accessing market data in a timely fashion? And is it looking for ways to resolve these problems? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, join A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London on 25th…
New BMLL CEO Humphrey Outlines ‘Scale-Up Phase’ Post-$25 Million Funding
Fresh from a January funding round that brings total financing raised to $25 million, UK trading analytics specialist BMLL Technologies has named industry veteran Paul Humphrey to take the helm as CEO. Humphrey says the company is now in “scale-up phase” as it sets about its mission to derive value from data hidden within market…
What’s to Come in 2020: Advanced Trading Technology Opens Door to Highly Individualized and Agile Strategy
By Chris Hollands, Head of European and North American Sales, TradingScreen Farewell to the 2010s, the decade of pure speed. The period when automated trading shot up the curve, ascending from a tool of the early adopters to a cross-asset industry norm. We embraced algorithms as our trump card, so much so that they now…