Archive for: November, 2007
John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 30/11/2007 | 3393 views
Okay, so you are probably reading this blog because of the title, so I had best explain what it is all about. In the olden days - so I understand - when the UK Monarch died, a courtier used to announce the "King is dead, long live the King". Presumably this was both to signal the passing of an era, as well as to express continuity of the ...
Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution
John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 22/11/2007 | 3649 views
The FT has reported that the UK's only residential property stock exchange, the Property Investment Market, has been forced to suspend its business after failing to meet new MiFID regulations. They have failed to gain approval so far from the FSA as a Multilateral Trading Facility or MTF. This news is interesting (using the word in its MiFID se...
Tags: Trade execution, Retail banking
Cornelius Nandyal - Hexaware - Frankfurt | 20/11/2007 | 3070 views
After nearly a decade of weather derivatives trading, the exchange traded weather risk products started picking up in volumes and popularity, but still there are a lots of interesting points to observe in OTC trading volume, liquidity, trading infrastructure etc.. As per the WRMA’s 2007 industry survey total number of contracts traded worldwi...
Tags: Dealing rooms, Risk & regulation
Cornelius Nandyal - Hexaware - Frankfurt | 19/11/2007 | 2581 views
With increased Algorithamic trading, latency is becoming such a differentiator and competitive advantage in a lot of markets, that firms are looking hard for any chance to make them a little faster than their competitors. Successful trade execution demands price discovery in milliseconds while the data still reflects the actual market. The time int...
Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution
John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 07/11/2007 | 2086 views
So you survived MiFID Day, and indeed the first MiFID week; survived the incessant MiFID blogs and weeklong MiFID press coverage, History of MiFID, MiFID in numbers, and special features on MIFID from special MiFID personalities some of whom we had never heard of before. You have ticked the MiFID box at least once, in fact, probably at least once p...
Tags: Trade execution, Post-trade & ops
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