VWAP Trap: Volatility And The Perils Of Strategy Selection
By Erin Stanton, Managing Director, Trading Analytics, ITG Historical performance indicates that traders should reduce their use of VWAP strategies during spikes in market volatility. When it comes to...
View ArticleOptimizing Trading Workflows With Agile Platforms
Buy-side trading desks have unique requirements, but all need to future-proof their platforms. Should buy-side trading desks buy technology or build their own? How are institutional traders extracting...
View ArticleThe Itiviti Perspective On Current Trends In Quality Assurance
By Vaibhav Shukla, Senior Vice President, Global Services, Itiviti Automating quality assurance across a range of procedures provides cost benefit and productivity improvements. The financial industry...
View ArticleGlobal Volumes Shifting Toward the Close
By Niamh Golden, Director, Analytics, ITG The move of trading volume to the end of the day in Asia and globally highlights a large natural liquidity event even for those not benchmarked to the close...
View ArticleTechnology For The Portfolio Lifecycle
By Damian Bierman, Head of Asia-Pacific, Portfolio Management & Trading Solutions, FactSet Buy-side technology continues to evolve, but solutions offering different pieces of the portfolio...
View ArticleBig Data: Navigating the Hype of AI and Machine Learning
By David Firmin, MD and Head of Global Trading Research, Instinet With all the big talk about big data these days, the financial services industry must make better sense of machine learning and...
View ArticleMore FinTech M&A Ahead
By Shanny Basar, Markets Media Last year was very busy for mergers and acquisitions of financial technology providers and 2019 is set to maintain the same pace according to consultancy Aite Group. For...
View ArticleBuilding a Smarter Financial Desktop
New applications are exciting for their potential to improve business processes and boost efficiency, but firms are missing out on the benefits a unified desktop can bring to the business. What is the...
View ArticleAlt Data Logistics In Focus
It is now a generally accepted premise that alternative data works on Wall Street. Indeed, portfolio managers and analysts use it to make better trading and investing decisions every day. But the route...
View ArticleIn Data Centers, Lease Beats Own
Cloud enables firms to store and access data in a flexible, “capital lite” manner. Buy or lease? The eternal economic question regarding homes and vehicles has come to corporate data centers. For many...
View ArticleCEO CHAT: Jeff Stein, Xinthesys
Buy versus build? It’s the age-old technology question on Wall Street. In a modest commission environment where both the buy- and sell-side are making due with less and technology needs only leaping in...
View ArticleFirst Trades Settle Live On SETL Blockchain CSD
ID2S is connected to the European Central Bank’s real-time gross settlement system. The first trades settled live time last week on ID2S, the regulated blockchain central securities depository...
View ArticleBeyond Speed And AI: Technology For Better Markets
By Don Ross, CEO, PDQ Enterprises. Avoiding information leakage. Five years ago, Michael Lewis set off a firestorm in the trading community with his bestseller Flash Boys, accusing high-frequency...
View ArticleTechnology Needs A Catalyst. How Does Survival Sound?
By Adam Sussman, Global Head of Market Structure, Liquidnet. Artificial Intelligence is not necessarily about predicting price, but predicting what kind of content, products, or services a user would...
View ArticleCEO CHAT: Stephen Murphy, genesis
Capital markets need to change the speed of software development and cut the length of time to market for new services. Amazon engineers are said to deploy new code on the technology company’s website...
View ArticleVideo Interview: Data’s Impact on Trading
Refinitiv’s Phil DeFrancesco discusses data’s impact on trading.
View ArticleThe Buy-Side’s Drive For Technology Growth
Instead of investing in costly technology upgrades, it is more prudent for firms to collaborate more frequently and directly, writes Monique Popli, Director of Strategy, Tier1 Financial Solutions....
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