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Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 17/07/2008 | 3837 views

The Field of Dreams approach to new execution venues

Lee Hodgkinson makes some interesting points in this video. The plethora of alternative trading venues launching this year will live and die by the liquidity they attract. Everyone knows that Chi-X has done quite well from being in the game early. SWX Europe likewise hopes that being early to market in providing a European dark pool - though just f... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution

John Cant - MPI Europe Ltd - London | 04/07/2008 | 14050 views

The devil is in the sharing...

Whether you call it commission sharing or unbundling, it seems a deceptively simple process, at the conceptual level at least – you normally split the commission on an equity deal into at least two elements (traditionally denoted as execution and research) and distribute these portions appropriately. Following an agreement, known in the UK as... Tags: Dealing rooms, Wholesale banking

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