1013 Results from 2011
Retired Member
Algorithmic trading has made the headlines, most often negatively. The underlying idea is that computers can make, on a broader scale, better decisions than a trader. On the other hand, criticism is rising to curb a practice that some consider contrary to the benefits of the market. But, on a different scale, algorithmic based decisions could be a...
15 April 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
A recent article in the Evening Standard highlighted Terry Smith, Chief Executive of Tullett Prebon concerns about the Financial Services Industry's ability to provide investors with protection and value for their investments. Smith focused particularly on share buy-backs, this is where a company uses its capital to buy back its shares. This has t...
15 April 2011
I recently completed some research on single dealer platforms or FX eCommerce systems, which are designed for market makers and dealers in foreign currency trading. My research covered FX aggregation, pricing, auto-hedging, position-keeping, smart order routing and internalization. Here are a few tidbits from the research: FX single dealer platfor...
14 April 2011 /wholesale Financial Risk Management
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
Recently we've been discussing at many organizations what it takes to get innovation done in large businesses with embedded behavior and practices. One side of the coin is obviously the impact of Disruptive Technology, but the other is purely the issue of Innovation Management or creating an organization that embraces or assists innovation. In a re...
14 April 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
In March, new issuance and continued interest rate volatility contributed to further increases in fixed income volumes according to leading brokers like ICAP, who last week announced a 22% volume increase over its BrokerTec platform on the previous year. If regulators succeed in their aim to move a significant proportion of OTC trading onto exchang...
14 April 2011 /wholesale
Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a Mayor; your @girlfriend bought lettuce; the @person-you-do-not-even-know twitted about a terrible hangover and Lady Gaga released a new single on Fa
14 April 2011 /regulation /retail
Now it's just dandy that the FSA does not see a role in regulating Algo trading! Surely this is a dereliction of duty of the first order! The financial services industry is highly technical relying on new developments and innovation to produce increased revenue. The business of Algo trading is a fundamental factor in today's securities markets and...
13 April 2011
At the Asian Banker Summit in Hong Kong last week, the passion that the banking community displayed to be a leader in innovation and customer experience was very apparent. For the East, the fast adoption of mobile technology is already becoming a game-changing trend and the financial services, especially retail banking, sector has a focus on mobil...
13 April 2011 /retail
Simply put, payment execution is the process of initiating payments, whether by check, ACH, wire or card. Increasingly, companies are looking to outsource this portion of their A/P processing. Payment initiation is time consuming, labor intensive and expensive (in the case of checks) and certainly meets the definition of a non-core business func...
12 April 2011 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Yarr, me hearties! An issue with Avast (an Anti-virus popular for personal use as it's free), led to many websites having the black mark placed upon them erroneously. The error only affected computers that use Avast for their virus protection. Yesterday, when a user updated their PC with Avast’s latest Virus Definitions, and then attempted to su...
12 April 2011 /security
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