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FlexTrade Launches New Issue Management System in Consultation with Neuberger Berman
January 23, 2024
FlexTrade Systems now empowers asset managers and multi-strat buy-side firms to streamline their new issue management workflows with FlexNIMS a fully integrated, end-to-end Equity Capital Markets solution for buy-side institutions. New York, January 23, 2024 …
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Middle East’s Strategic Location Drives FX Growth
FlexTrade’s Vinay Trivedi, Senior Vice President, FX Strategic Initiatives, discusses the use of quality execution analysis (QEA), a subset of transaction cost analysis (TCA), in FX best execution.
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Algo Development 2.0 Looks to Open Source, Cloud & Big Data
In the next five to 10 years, don’t be shocked if hedge funds begin to outsource their algorithms to a team of quants coding in Python using the cloud and open source tools.
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FlexTrade Integrates The SmartStream Reference Data Utility for MiFID II Compliance
FlexTrade and The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) today announced the integration of the SmartStream RDU with the FlexTRADER EMS.
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Global FX Code Gains Adoption but Last Look is a Thorny Issue
Over 200 market participants have signed the FX Global Code of Conduct, a voluntary set of principles published a year ago to restore trust and curb bad behavior in the wholesale foreign exchange market.
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SST Awards 2018: Best Alliance or Partnership—FlexTrade / Dataminr
The win in the best alliance or partnership category goes to FlexTrade and Dataminr and it’s easy to see why, as the alliance ticks two important boxes: big data and artificial intelligence (AI).
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SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform—FlexTrade Systems
FlexTrade Systems—thanks to its FlexTRADER execution management system (EMS)—has won the best sell-side automated trading platform at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards. This marks the second year in a row that FlexTrade has won this award, and its third time overall, as it took home the trophy in 2013.
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Equity Market Innovation Leads to Venue Proliferation
Several startups are planning to launch either new venues or order types, and even listing standards, to solve problems in US equity trading. FlexTrade’s Ivy Schmerken investigates.
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FlexTrade Multi-Asset EMS Named Best Front-Office Execution System for 2018
FlexTrade today announced its FlexTRADER EMS has won the “Best Front-Office Execution System” category at the 16th Annual Financial News Trading & Technology Awards Europe ceremony, which was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, on Tuesday, 15 May.
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MiFID II & Fixed Income: Big Changes on the Horizon
Download the whitepaper. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a sweeping set of financial re-forms, establishing mandates for best execution and pre- and post-trade transparency. As of early 2018, the legislation …
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TCA & MiFID II: The Business Benefits of Compliance
Download the whitepaper.FlexTrade’s Editorial Director, Ivy Schmerken, discusses what transaction cost analysis (TCA) is, where it fits in a MiFID II regulatory compliance strategy, and reveals some of the business benefits that may accrue from …
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MiFID II: The Impact of Unbundling
Download the whitepaper. As we approach the final stages of MiFID II approval, FlexTrade’s Editorial Director, Ivy Schmerken, considers what the rules on unbundling are likely to include, and what the impact on the buy-side …