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Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

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. Non-bank liquidity providers and some dealers are actively participating in venues that support bilateral streaming, according to a Greenwich Associat...

27 August 2018

Brie Lam Regulatory Compliance Consulant at Independent

Brexit and the Buyside: When Your Counterparty Wants to Novate

OTC derivatives market participants are receiving a growing number of requests from their dealers to novate swaps from a one entity to another within the same dealer group. Many of these requests are borne out of regulatory necessity, particularly ring-fencing rules coming into force for large dealers in the UK beginning on 1st January 2019 in co...

08 August 2018 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

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 remains a priority,-side firms are grappling with two distinct workflows – voice-based and electronic – in the $8 trillion corporate bond market. A new re...

03 August 2018 /regulation

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2018 World Cup: if banks did automation like Kane does football

England footballer Harry Kane – the current lead scorer in the World Cup – has demonstrated that less is definitely more. With only 153 minutes of play time, Kane has scored 5 goals. That’s one goal for every 30 minutes on pitch. By successfully taking a targeted approach, he is producing the best outcomes. That’s efficiency. Kane has managed his ...

26 June 2018

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Move Forward But Don’t Forget

As a CTO I have been awed by the multiple options for the business application of new technologies. I always put myself in the place of our customers and understand why there are so many organisations grappling with the power of the Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how to make them real. From my days working at a large financial com...

14 June 2018 /ai

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Intelligent Machines and FX Trading

Many commentators and research analysts believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to transform the foreign trade, for example; by reducing the cost of numerous processes throughout the trade lifecycle. Spending on AI is expected to substantially increase over the next five years with much of the investment being focused on Machine Learning ...

29 May 2018 /ai

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The dating game

In an increasingly crowded fintech market we take a look at what we can potentially learn from the dating scene and how it may help to negate the unhappy story of the fintech providers who are being left on the shelf with no one willing to engage. Reputation Today’s digitally driven world means that anything can become ‘viral’ in seconds, minutes o...

20 May 2018

Robin Mess Co-Founder and CEO at big xyt

Winning business by navigating through the new liquidity landscape

MiFID II offers a fresh start for business relationships in capital markets. By reframing the way in which dealers and trading venues seek to manage and match client trades it is implicitly changing where buy-side firms choose to route and execute their orders. A new framework The new directive, and its sister regulation MiFIR, have established a ...

10 April 2018 /regulation

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How AI is transforming Trade settlements

Banks are investing heavily in disruptive technologies to boost operational efficiencies including within the post-trade settlement process. The technology financial executives are turning to is called artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is a group of technologies that are designed to emulate human cognitive functions and traits. AI ca...

22 March 2018 /ai

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Blockchain in Capital Markets

How Blockchain Technology Helps With Trade Reporting With the interconnectivity of the global capital markets, U.S. multinational financial institutions must report to not only U.S. regulators but must also ensure their foreign offices comply with overseas regulators like the European Central Bank. In this article, we’ll analyze how Blockchain tech...

01 March 2018