By With Paul Collins, Head of Trading EMEA, Franklin Templeton In my mind the attention is two-fold; a focus on the impact that MiFID II has in terms of the use of client commissions to pay for research, and the...
By Tim Healy, Global Marketing and Communications Manager, FIX Trading Community. January is an odd month. A time to look back on the past year, to look forward to the New Year, make resolutions and...
By Damian Bierman, Head of Asia-Pacific Operations, Portware. Portware has the ability to implement a straight through processing layer that reads proprietary signals from a customer’s OMS...
By Asia Independent Research Providers’s (AIRP) Ed Stockreisser and Shan Han. Discuss the market for research, their new solution SeedAlpha, and predict...
By Oli Freeling-Wilkinson, CEO, Knowsis. There is a whole world of conversation that is occurring in social media and online that people in finance are not effectively plugging into...
By Kesara Manchusree, President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The Stock Exchange of Thailand recently changed our trading platform for the equities and derivatives markets...
By Rohini Tendulkar, Economist, IOSCO. Over the last decade, emerging markets (EMs) have, on average, grown almost as fast twice as advanced economies (AEs). Recently...
By David Mechner, CEO, Pragma. Both equities and FX are continuous two-sided quote-driven markets, which creates fundamental similarities. Equity and FX algos therefore offer many of the same...
By Shane Worner, Senior Economist, IOSCO. It is an interesting time for the financial markets. As the impacts of the most recent financial crisis recede into the...
By Dr. Christian Zimmer, Head of Quantitative Portfolio Management, Itau Asset Management. Brazil is a tropical country with fruits that can’t be found in most other countries in the world...
Joe Kassel, Global Head of Dealing & Exposure Management at AMP Capital outlines the effects of the FCA’s proposed rules for the usage of client commissions on the buy-side...
By J.T. Cacciabaudo, Senior Managing Director, Head of Trading and Sales Trading, Sterne, Agree & Leach. In this world of regulatory scrutiny, as well as from a risk management point of view...
By John Vrettos, Director, Business Development & Strategy Pershing LLC. Discusses his approach to vendor selection, relationships management and resource allocation...
By Daryl Bowden, Partner and Head of Equities, Sunrise Brokers. We are increasingly driving towards the idea that there is no such thing as coincidence in how brokers deal with their clients – so much of what we...
Linda Giordano and Jeff Alexander, Principals, TABB Group further examine their efforts to standardise execution venue reporting, and look at how it can help both the buy-side and sell-side...
By Huw Gronow, Head of Equity Trading, Europe and Asia, Principal Global Investors. Sometimes an industry adopts mysterious-sounding labels to add to the intrigue of its complexity...