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Ivy Schmerken

Data Science Platforms Help the Buy Side Integrate Alternative Data

Asset managers are looking for ways to mine alternative data sets for investment ideas, recognizing that stock pickers cannot rely on traditional research. An explosion in alternative data, ranging fr...

08 Oct 2018
Fintech
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II Reaches Across the Pond: Is This the Calm Before the Storm?

Despite the view that MiFID II is a European regulation, US investment managers are experiencing disruption as they align their research payment and execution practices with the influential standard. ...

17 Sep 2018
MiFID
Ivy Schmerken

Treasury Trading Evolves with Bilateral Streaming

Electronic trading in the US Treasury secondary market is evolving and shifting, as non-bank liquidity providers and dealers participate on venues that offer bilateral streaming on a disclosed basis. ...

27 Aug 2018
Capital Markets Technology
Ivy Schmerken

Buy Side Juggles Efficiency and Workflow in Search for Bond Liquidity

Corporate bond investors are seeking operational efficiencies on their fixed income trading desks to lower costs. As the search for bond liquidity across a fragmented credit trading marketplace remai...

03 Aug 2018
Capital Markets Technology
Ivy Schmerken

Algo Development 2.0 Looks to Open Source, Cloud & Big Data

In the next five to 10 years, don’t be shocked if hedge funds begin to outsource their algorithms to a team of quants coding in Python using the cloud and open source tools. That was one of the future...

12 Jul 2018
Capital Markets Technology
Ivy Schmerken

Global FX Code Gains Adoption but Last Look is a Thorny Issue

Over 200 market participants have signed the FX Global Code of Conduct, a voluntary set of principles published a year ago to restore trust and curb bad behavior in the wholesale foreign exchange mark...

14 Jun 2018
Financial Services Regulation
Ivy Schmerken

Equity Market Innovation Leads to Venue Proliferation

Several startups are planning to launch either new venues or order types, and even listing standards, to solve problems in US equity trading. At last month’s SIFMA Equity Market Structure conference, ...

25 May 2018
Innovation in Financial Services
Ivy Schmerken

SEC Steers Pilot on Equity Trading Fees and Rebates Amid Headwinds

Diving into one of the more controversial issues in equity market structure, U.S. regulators are moving forward with the transaction-fee pilot that will force stock exchanges to lower the fee caps on ...

07 May 2018
Financial Services Regulation
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II Post-Mortem Cites Delays on LEIs and Data Quality as Key Challenge

With the rollout of such a massive regulation as MiFID II, there are bound to be some hiccups, but so far firms are mainly wrestling with trade reporting and data quality issues. That sentiment was ex...

16 Apr 2018
MiFID
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II's Hereafter: Systematic Internalizers & Block Venues

MiFID II went live on Jan. 3 without much fanfare, but the EU regulation is already shifting trading behavior toward Large-in-Scale block trading venues and new venues called systematic internalizers ...

02 Apr 2018
MiFID
Ivy Schmerken

Artificial Intelligence Gains Momentum: From Machine Learning to Deep Learning

Artificial intelligence has quickly evolved from science fiction to digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri learning about our daily lives. A.I. applications are interpreting MRIs and will soon be o...

01 Mar 2018
Capital Markets Technology
Ivy Schmerken

Electronic Corporate Bond Trading at the Crossroads

The conversation in electronic corporate bond trading has shifted away from focusing strictly on liquidity to gathering data and analyzing relative bond pricing. “The Holy Grail in the marketplace is ...

08 Feb 2018
Capital Markets Technology

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