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Ivy Schmerken

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FX Volatility 'Trumping Forward' into 2017

The unanticipated election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has boosted trading volume and volatility in currencies, and many see an opportunity to generate profits that has eluded them for several years. Eight days after the U.S. presidential election, market participants gathered at a Markets Media FX-Trading 2016 event in New York City to ...

27 December 2016 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken

Multi-Asset Trading Now in Vogue for the Buy Side?

Demand for multi-asset trading on the buy-side has “renewed” the importance of the execution management system’s role on buy-side trading desks in the battle for screen-based real estate. However, listed derivatives centric trading platforms may no longer be the solution that clients are seeking, according to a recent Aite Group’s report, “Buy-Side...

15 December 2016 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken

Equity Trading Update: Relationships, Liquidity and IOIs

With stricter regulations, capital constraints and technology costs impacting the sell side, large brokers are rationing their services and this trend is being felt on equity trading desks. Brokers are catering to the biggest institutions, while medium and small asset managers feel neglected, according to a recent TabbFORUM webinar based on the f

21 November 2016 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken

Smart New Rules for Smarter Order Routing?

Disclosure is the rage in financial markets regulation and the latest set of proposals relate to order handling rules. Regulators are seeking to boost transparency into the order routing practices of broker-dealers and trading venues that reroute their orders in U.S. listed equities across exchanges and other trading venues. As many know, on July 1...

25 October 2016 /regulation

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Impact of MiFID II: Unbundling, the Sell Side and Research Trends

Research Disruption? European regulators are pressing to unbundle research payments from executions. Experts say that a regulatory overhaul driven by MiFID II has the potential to disrupt the global research industry. Many industry watchers maintain it will put pressure on sell-side firms that support teams of analysts as well as independent resear...

11 October 2016 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken

FX Algo Usage Rises as Buy-Side Takes Charge

Algorithmic trading is gaining ground in foreign exchange among asset managers and pension funds that have been traditionally slower than hedge funds and CTAs in adopting these tools. Nearly one third of 2015 institutional FX volume was executed through algorithmic trading models, according to a recent Greenwich Associates global FX report. That is...

30 August 2016 /regulation

Ivy Schmerken

Quant Funds Get Sentimental About Big Data

Big Data Fed by Social Media Social media is creating a torrent of data every minute. But how much of this firehose is relevant to making better investment decisions? As hedge funds and asset managers eye an explosion in unstructured data from Twitter, Google searches, and other social content, many are subscribing to feeds that mine this data to ...

04 August 2016

Ivy Schmerken

Managing Big Data After Brexit

The UK’s Brexit vote threw traders and investors off-balance and disrupted global financial markets. After the UK’s June 23 referendum to leave the European Union, traders and investors awoke to a global sell off in stocks, a surge in U.S. equity trading volumes, and volatility in foreign exchange rates as the British pound sterling fell to histori...

26 July 2016

Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II: Brexit, Pain Points and Other Hurdles

Brexit Impact The UK’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union sent a shock through financial markets, but will it throw Britain’s compliance with MiFID II into a tailspin? From a legal standpoint, Britain is still under the jurisdiction of existing European laws for at least the next two years. Prior to the vote, pundits said that buy- and sell-...

29 June 2016 /regulation

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Raising the Curtain on Treasuries

U.S. regulators are pushing for more transparency into the $13 trillion US Treasury market after several regulatory agencies found that the government securities market is more opaque than they realized. On May 16, the Treasury Department and the Securities Exchange Commission said they are working to explore collecting U.S. cash market transaction...

06 June 2016 /regulation

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