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ESMA sees continued tense securities market conditions
March 12th, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Report No. 1, 2015 on Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities in European Union (EU) securities markets, covering market developments from July to December 2014. The report finds that market conditions in the ...
Trading Technologies’ Platform to Support Quantitative Brokers’ Best Execution Algorithms
February 19th, 2015
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, and Quantitative Brokers, a leading provider of fixed income and futures algorithms, today announced TT will provide access to Quantitative Brokers’ best execution algorithms from the ...
Computer-Driven, Automatic Trading Strategies Score Big
February 6th, 2015
So-Called Quant Traders Take Advantage of Volatility ‘These are the best conditions we’ve seen since 2008,’ says Roy Niederhoffer Recent market volatility caught many investors flat-footed. Among the few winners were traders who let a computer be their guide. ...
PwC: Creating winning culture essential if financial services firms are to flourish
January 29th, 2015
Cultural change in the financial services sector globally is destined to fail if players continue to focus on it primarily as a compliance requirement, according to a paper just published by PwC. The paper, ‘Forging a winning culture’, which ...
OpenBondX released on plans to improve electronic bond trading
January 28th, 2015
OpenBondX, a fully electronic fixed income alternative trading system (ATS), issued a press release on: New ATS OpenBondX Transforms Electronic Fixed Income Markets with “All-to-All” System and Hybrid Trading Protocol Transparent pricing, fair and equal access to all parties ...
Exchange Traded Fund Assets under management to exceed $5 trillion by 2020
January 26th, 2015
Professionally managed financial investments globally are predicted to grow at 6% per annum to reach $100 trillion by 2020, according to a new report by PwC. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) will pay a prominent role in this growth, as ...
Swiss Franc’s Leap Lifts Some FX Brokers
January 26th, 2015
Even as some foreign-exchange brokers that focus on serving retail customers were getting hammered by the surprise surge in the Swiss franc earlier this month, other firms that deal mostly with big banks, hedge funds and other large clients ...
Why the Swiss unpegged the franc
January 19th, 2015
In the world of central banking, slow and predictable decisions are the aim. So on January 15th, when the Swiss National Bank (SNB) suddenly announced that it would no longer hold the Swiss franc at a fixed exchange rate ...
Banks Battle Speculation Denmark’s Euro Peg at Risk: Currencies
January 19th, 2015
Banks in Scandinavia are joining the Danish government in trying to persuade offshore investors that the Nordic country isn’t about to copy Switzerland and drop its euro peg. SEB AB, the Nordic region’s largest currency trader, said it’s been fielding calls ...
Yen Falls to 7-Year Low on Election-Stimulus Speculation
November 17th, 2014
The yen strengthened after falling to a seven-year low against the dollar as demand for safer assets revived following a report that showed Japan’s economy unexpectedly sank into a recession. Japan’s currency climbed from the weakest level since October ...
