Insights
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HFM Business Continuity Report 2020: March madness – adjusting to the new normal
Vishal Pandya, chief operating officer of FlexTrade Systems, outlines how the firm’s swift response to the global pandemic has made it business (almost) as usual for their clients. Actions speak louder than words. If there …
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Intraday Volatility in the COVID Era: Why it Matters
Intraday volatility is a substantially more important metric in this new regime. As the global health and economic situation evolves, more sudden shifts in overall volatility are likely, and historic volatility metrics will be slow to respond to such events.
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Is Remote Work Leading to a Paradigm Shift on the Trading Desk?
Given the market’s resiliency and traders working from home during the COVID-19-fueled volatility, some market observers have questioned the centralized trading desk mentality that has been pervasive on Wall Street.
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Factor Strategies React to Crisis-Induced Volatility
In volatile markets, asst managers were monitoring portfolios in real-time to determine how factors were behaving and affecting risks in their portfolios.
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Reforming the SIP with Odd Lots and Competing Consolidators
With attention riveted on volatile stock and bond markets and the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, brokers and asset managers are focused on keeping up with the high volumes of market data and trades. With so many unknowns, the situation could impact market data reforms to overhaul the securities information processor or SIP.
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In Volatile Markets, Trading Technology Matters
At times like these, two major factors come into play: first, your trading technology’s ability to process and manage the data coming into the platform, and secondly, how well-established automation is within the firm.
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FX Algos Gain Adoption on the Buy Side as Best Ex and TCA Fuel Change
With the proliferation of algorithms in currency markets and regulatory pressure to prove best execution, buy-side trading desks are adopting algorithms to source liquidity and lower trading costs in FX trading.
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Unlocking Data Silos to Reach the Promised Land of Smart Data Analytics
With mountains of market data, historical prices, and transactions data stored in disparate systems, securities and investment firms are shifting from a focus on collecting data to extracting value from it. But the problem is that most of these huge and large data sets are siloed in legacy system architectures.
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A Year in Review: Top FlexAdvantage Blog Posts in 2019
Topics such as market data costs, natural language processing, MiFID II research unbundling, Algo Wheels, exchange startups, market structure, dark pools, and desktop interoperability, resonated with the readers of the FlexAvantage industry blog.
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Revised SEC Rule 606 Shines the Light on Order Routing Disclosures
The revamped SEC 606 regulation requires more extensive disclosures by broker dealers about the handling and routing of institutional customer orders including the average rebates the broker received from, and fees the broker paid to, trading venues.
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Exchange Landscape Gearing Up for Expansion in 2020
As a sign of the evolving U.S. equity trading landscape, two startups and one options exchange operator plan to launch as many as three new exchange platforms in 2020, and a fourth could be waiting in the wings. Emphasizing the need for competition and innovation in US equity market structure, new entrants have downplayed the increased connectivity costs and additional fragmentation of orders across trading venues.