By Dr Christian J. Zimmer, Co-Chair Latin America Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, Vice President, Itau Asset Management. After the 2012 FIX Latin America Conference, the local subcommittee decided to make the...
By Fabien Oreve, Global Head of Trading, Candriam Investors Group. Large institutional investors have been trading with more electronic tools in the credit markets since the financial crisis...
By David Rabinowitz, UBS Head of Direct Execution Services Asian Equities and Sanji Shivalingam, UBS Head of Algorithms and Analytics Asia Pacific. The effects of a raft of exchange-led and regulatory inspired changes...
By Emma Quinn, Head of Asia Pacific Trading, AllianceBernstein. There was a lot of excitement when the Hong Kong-Shanghai Connect scheme was initially announced because QFII and RQFII have a lot of restrictions.
By Chris Rice, Global Head of Trading, State Street Global Advisors. There has been a vast change in the technology over the last 15 years, which we look at as an evolutionary model that could be applied to other asset...
By Wendy Rudd, IIROC Senior Vice President, Market Regulation and Policy A number of IIROC dealer members have requested additional guidance on best execution compliance, given that changes in...
By Emma Quinn, AllianceBernstein From a buy-side perspective it meant firms were minimising their administrative burden by reducing the number of brokers that they use...
By Khalil Dayri, Antares Technologies and Mathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) We provide a framework linking microstructural properties of an asset to the tick value of the exchange. In...
By Anthony Godonis, Senior Equity Trader at Aberdeen Asset Management. I don’t think markets are broken, I just think they are very complicated. They’re complicated to the point where we really need to sit back and...
By John Kelly, Chief Operating Officer at Liquidnet The growth of electronic trading has provided many benefits to equity investors by creating new market efficiencies and reducing trading costs...
Kuala Lumpur: The Internal And External Drive For Reform In late March GlobalTrading hosted a roundtable in Kuala Lumpur to examine the best practices for electronic trading in Malaysia...
By Kent Rossiter, Head of Regional Asia-Pacific Trading, Allianz Global Investors I’d like exchange circuit breakers to kick in at the single stock level to avoid unwarranted sharp moves...
By Brian Ross, CEO, FIX Flyer. Pre-trade risk management is not new to the sell-side or exchanges, but the way it is implemented continues to evolve...
By Robert Karofsky, Global Head Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein There’s never been a better time for people to invest and transact in the market; the market is as efficient as it’s ever been and trading costs are at...
The 20th of March saw HKEx host their annual Ecosystem Forum conference. This event brings together the exchange and the industry to talk about the latest developments in technology...
By Ronan Ryan, Chief Strategy Officer, IEX The buy-side is an essential component to ongoing market change. A few years ago the buy-side started asking, “Where are you routing my order?”
Peter Waters, Managing Editor, GlobalTrading, attended a groundbreaking summit looking to address the evolving needs of the alpha-seeking buy-side community.