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Finding investment opportunities while remaining compliant in a volatile new world
When I meet regulatory and investment compliance officers in the asset management industry, I find they’re more concerned than ever...
Brexit: Cross-border trade publication
Under MiFID post-trade transparency rules, equity trades must be published within a minute for market price-forming purposes. In practice, this...
How FX businesses can boost customer loyalty and profitability by using data intelligently
Digital transformation in the FX industry has changed how customers use FX services and execute trades. FX firms are moving...
Partial settlement: The CSDR effect
Does your secured funding business support partial settlement? Or rather, can it afford not to? The European Central Securities Depositories...
A state of FLUX: How findings led UX helps us create the solutions our users really need
If you had 1 hour to solve a problem, what would you do? You might take Albert Einstein’s advice and...
A new asset class comes to town!
We often hear in the press of new trading venues, and in more recent months trading venues merging, but rarely...
Voice trading after MiFID and COVID: It’s time to stop worrying and embrace digital transformation
Voice trading has undergone major changes as a result of regulatory reforms. MiFID II has had the biggest impact. To...
There’s no cloud, it’s just somebody else’s PC
Cloud-based applications are great. They free users from hardware, obsolescence, maintenance, and so on. But what challenges do providers face?...
The future of web development
The web ecosystem is evolving at an insane speed. Driven by FOSS projects (Free and Open-Source Software) and following the...
Here’s why you need to automate your business analytics
Information is different than knowledge. And the more information you have, the bigger the difference becomes. Nowadays, you can summon...
The benefits of a good order management system during a pandemic
Trading rooms of the world have been shrinking since the advent of digital automation throughout the banking industry, with algorithmic...
Brexit: MiFID Share trading obligation – Should the EU investors be worried?
The European Union’s MiFID directives set clear rules on the share trading obligations a broker has when trading across Europe....
Let’s talk latency
Trading is a highly competitive business where speed is of the essence. There are several different ways to measure speed,...
Three display functions that all trading systems should embrace
When trading moved from trading floors and into the digital world, the data presented to dealers started to multiply rapidly....
Spanish tax set for January 2021
Before the advent of an EU financial transactions tax (FTT), of which Spain has long been a supporter, a draft...
Recurring waves of Brexit
In the face of recurring Brexit waves, the markets have become increasingly well versed in contingency planning. To navigate previous...
Working towards a common goal
Regulators globally are continuing to step up efforts to monitor for potential market abuse, with many active initiatives in play....
Wider adoption of MMT encouraged
The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) recently advised ESMA to promote wider adoption of the Market Model Typology (MMT) post-trade data standards....
The evolving global impact of MiFID II
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an extension of their no-action letter regarding the European Union’s investment...
Catch 22: The share trading obligation
MiFID II refined the definition of OTC trading for equities, making it more difficult for firms to trade away from...
Time runs out on Swiss equivalence
Over the weekend, the stock market equivalence granted to Switzerland by the European Commission expired. The limited-period equivalence, which was...
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