The TRADE

MAY 28, 2024

Market fragmentation has increased over recent years and led to the dispersion of trading activity across primary exchanges, lit and dark multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), banks’ systematic internalisers (SIs) and electronic liquidity providers’ (ELP SIs). Could a consolidated tape offer up a suitable alternative tool to CLOBs (CT)?

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The TRADE

AUGUST 15, 2023

Trading, portfolio and risk management solutions provider TS Imagine has added CLSA’s AI-powered European algo suite to its list of certified brokers. TS Imagine’s TradeSmart features pre-certified connections to more than 250 listed brokers and venues, as well as broker algos.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Electronic market maker Optiver selected Philippe Rizzo to join its institutional sales team, effective from 9 October.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 24, 2024

Algorithmic development has and always will evolve to achieve the best performance possible versus the client benchmark,” says Alex Harman, head of EMEA electronic and program trading at Goldman Sachs. The longer I take, the more opportunity/risk I’m exposed to.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Armando Diaz, chief executive of PureStream The ATS claims to provider brokers and their institutional clients with improved bandwidth in order to access liquidity faster, more cost-effectively and with greater security. PureStream is exclusively available to broker dealers and does not connect directly with the buy-side.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfolio management at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Electronic trading capabilities have led to a major shift away from voice trading, and this has changed the role that counterparties play when they work together. We view this as a complement to broker led avenues of liquidity, not as a replacement.” Enhancements seen on the buy-side have lent themselves to more automation on the desk.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Secondly, major advances in technology and data science have greatly influenced not only the role of trading, but the entire investment decision making process, with increasing reliance on electronic trading. Portfolio trading has been especially impactful for credit markets where liquidity can be challenging. Adaptability is key.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. In years gone by, buy-side firms have placed orders via a sell-side broker to be traded on exchange. Portfolio trading Next up is portfolio trading.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 14, 2023

We can now RFQ dual currency bonds, with both price and FX rates streamed electronically. We have all-to-all trading which greatly increases liquidity channels. Even price discovery is helped now, with broker runs and axes being streamed into our OMS. Of course, not everything has moved to electronic trading.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfolio managers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfolio managers when preparing a strategy.

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The TRADE

APRIL 25, 2024

Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfolio managers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships. However, despite this, Joe Collery, head of trading at Comgest endorsed a measured approach whilst speaking at TradeTech earlier this week.

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The TRADE

MARCH 27, 2024

RFQ has cemented itself as a central method of execution in fixed income in recent years in light of the advent of electronic trading and the move away from bilateral voice trading and onto platforms. All of this points to RFM as a natural next step in the development of electronic workflows in fixed income. The result: a boom in RFM.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 9, 2024

If a portfolio manager wants to execute a trade days after such an event, they need to understand that liquidity may be reduced, and they must be confident in their strategy if they’re willing to pay more in the bid-offer spread.” Often we won’t commit orders fully to a broker.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

You need to be able to understand the strength of each counterpart, because a broker might be good in one asset class but not in the others. The adaptation to market standards can also be challenging because not all the instruments are trading the same way and this brings some more complexity when setting up harmonised trading workflows.

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The TRADE

JULY 5, 2023

” or “give me a breakdown of value by portfolio manager” Taking a step further, orders can be grabbed to prep or allocated internally across the desk. From a fixed-income perspective, bilateral electronic connections are finally becoming commonplace.

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The TRADE

MAY 23, 2024

It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor. They’re built for slightly different purposes.”

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The TRADE

JULY 30, 2024

Consequently, ETF trading techniques have evolved to source new pricing opportunities either via electronic request for quote (RFQ) platforms and/or ETF algos and to take advantage of ETF trading provision at the exchanges themselves,” says Tim Miller, senior trader at Fidelity International.

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Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Top Strategic Buyers Investing in SaaS Valsoft Corporation Valsoft is a holding company for a diverse portfolio of software and related technology services and currently employs 2,000 employees. In February 2024, Visma acquired InvoiceXpress, a developer of electronic invoicing software and related APIs for small businesses worldwide.

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