Trading China’s Bond Markets With Confidence
By Ee Chuan Ng, China Head of Sales for Bloomberg L.P. In global markets currently characterized by political and economic uncertainty, China’s $9 trillion bond market presents a potential long-term...
View ArticleHow Much Security Is Enough?
By Mark Vos, Chief Information Security Officer, Iress Cybersecurity has become a significant and increasing cost of doing business, but by striving for a “best fit” solution, it can be a business...
View ArticleBest Execution Monitoring: Lip Service Simply Isn’t Enough
By Duncan Begg, Electronic Product Manager, ITG Asia Pacific A data-driven broker selection tool demonstrates a process-driven, quantitative approach to execution performance measurement. As the...
View ArticleOutsourcing Client Connectivity
By Richard Bentley, Chief Product Officer, Ullink Pressures from regulation, technological complexity and burgeoning costs are a wake-up call to sell-side firms to optimise their client connectivity...
View ArticleFrom Risk Analysis To Returns Forecasts, Machine Learning Is Guiding Investments
With Gary Kazantsev, Head of Machine Learning, Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science, and Bruno Dupire, Head of Quantitative Research, Bloomberg. Machine learning cannot do everything people can do but,...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence And Equity Execution
By Ben Polidore, Managing Director, Algorithmic Trading, ITG AI and machine learning can enable traders to manage trading risks better and enhance investor returns. If you believe that variety is the...
View ArticleThe Case For Outsourcing
By Carl Slesser, Head of Sell-Side Product Management, Market Technology, Nasdaq Brokers are turning to third parties for support in running their trading operations. Regulations to promote competition...
View ArticleVendors Find Synergies For Merger
With Torben Munch, CEO, Itiviti As financial firms outsource more technology, there is pressure on service providers to compete. Itiviti, backed by Nordic Capital Fund VII, announced its intention on...
View ArticleThe Future Of Trading Technology: Building A Resilient Stack That Supports...
A GlobalTrading Roundtable Discussion. Regulation and technological innovation are forcing the industry to re-position their existing trading systems, according to participants at a thought leadership...
View ArticleThomson Reuters REDI
Empowering Today’s Buy-Side Trader Evolving Market Demands Require Evolved Partners The difficulties facing today’s buy-side trading desk are well known, with technology costs rising, regulatory...
View ArticleUpgrading Post-Trade Operations
By David Pearson, Head of Post-Trade, Fidessa Already well-established for cash equities, automated trade matching, reconciliation and confirmation systems are finally extending to other asset classes....
View ArticleFuture Proofing Trade Execution Systems
A GlobalTrading Roundtable Discussion. Regulation, technology advances and behavioural changes mean that trade automation will increase, and systems and their providers need to be flexible, agree...
View ArticleWe hide your footprint in the market, but we don’t hide anything from you.
QB is a financial technology company that provides execution strategies for Futures and US Cash Treasury markets. QB provides advanced agency algorithms and data-driven analytics to reduce implicit...
View ArticleESG: Can Hedge Funds Save Our Oceans?
By Philippe Burke, Portfolio Manager, Apache Capital There are several ways that large asset managers could demand a change in behaviour from publically traded polluters. We’ve all read alarming...
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 ArticleVWAP 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 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...
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