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Nissan Securities Distributes Trading Technologies’ TT Platform
Tokyo-based derivatives broker Nissan Securities has contracted to distribute Trading Technologies’ TT platform, furthering its trade execution technology offer with access to TT features and technology including Autospreader, ADL, TT Premium Services, and charting and analytics. Tomoaki Hirao, director and head of global sales at Nissan Securities, says: “By providing Trading Technologies’ TT platform, we’re…
QuantHouse Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Algos to API Ecosystem
QuantHouse has added access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms to its qh API Ecosystem. QB provides specialised algorithmic strategies designed to optimise execution and minimise market impact for outright, listed spread and inter-commodity trades across global futures and US cash treasury markets. Alastair Hawker, global head of sales at Quantitative Brokers, comments: “QB’s…
Recorded Webinar: Best practices for best execution in multi-venue environments
Best execution has long sat at the foundation of trading operations across all market and practitioner types. But the introduction of more onerous best execution requirements under MiFID II has raised the bar, both in terms of dealing with fragmented markets from an operational standpoint and providing evidence of delivery on best execution policies. The…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
Podcast: Best Execution & Connectivity in a Multi-Venue Environment
How are venues and connectivity choices impacting best execution? How could linking to emerging SIs impact best execution policy? How are trading technologies such as algos being redesigned to trade in periodic auctions and other new trading mechanisms? What is the best method to evaluate performance and assess options for trading venue analysis and order…
MiFID II: Navigating the Emerging Liquidity Landscape
The September 1 deadline for full implementation of the Systematic Internalisation (SI) regime marked the beginning of a whole new liquidity landscape, with firms on both sides of the equation grappling to understand the long-term implications of the new system on Europe’s financial markets. Navigating these waters in the coming months will be challenging for…
TORA Teams with NEX for MiFID II Trade/Transaction Reporting
TORA has partnered with NEX Regulatory Reporting to add MiFID II trade and transaction reporting capability to its cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS). NEX operates an Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) under MiFID II. The initiative, which provides buy-side firms with a straight-through-processing solution that reduces the operational demands…
AlgoTrader Releases Version 4.5 of its Cryptocurrency Platform
AlgoTrader, the Zurich-based developer of algorithmic trading software for quantitative hedge funds, including an early automated trading solution for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has released its AlgoTrader 4.5 solution. This version of the software incorporates direct cryptocurrency exchange adapters, and offers live market and reference data, order management for all order types, and automatic deposit…
SWIM – Retail Liquidity goes from Strength to Strength
By Joe Everitt, Managing Director SELECT, Stifel Europe Double-volume caps, large-in-scale restrictions, periodic auctions and systematic internalisers. In the first eight months of the new MiFID II regime the trading landscape has evolved radically. New liquidity venues abound fulfilling a variety of purposes and masters, some merely enabling the compliant trading of existing business in…
Bell Direct Selects FlexTradeOMS for Smart Order Router Algo Strategies
Australian-based online broker Bell Direct has selected FlexTrade’s order management system (OMS) for smart order router algorithmic strategies for the Australian Stock Exchange and Chi-X Australia. Lee Muco, chief operating officer at Bell, says the broker chose FlexTrade because its global, multi-asset and end-to-end OMS caters to the company’s existing workflow while also considering the…