Electronic Trading Agreements for Quants
By Mauro ViskovicHedge fund advisory firms that use quantitative-based investment strategies need to be mindful of various issues prior to executing an electronic trading agreement with a brokerage...
View ArticleBringing Transparency and Scale to the Bullion Investment Market
In this article, Mike O’Hara – in conversation with Seamus Donoghue, CEO of Allocated Bullion Solutions and Peter Fredriksson, CEO of Baymarkets – looks at how the introduction of a new centralized...
View ArticleJumbo frames - the elephant in the room for low latency
When every microsecond shaved from a transaction confers a trading advantage, it makes sense to seek the lowest latency links between trader - human or algorithmic - and exchange. At Zayo, as a...
View ArticleGrease is the Wordâ¦
By Peter Fredriksson, BaymarketsIn a previous blog post, I wrote about how the evolution of hybrid trading is bringing together the best aspects of voice broking and electronic trading in OTC markets...
View ArticleTrading System Failures Cannot Be Our Norm
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View ArticleWhen Speed is Not the Only Factor
Regular followers of The Trading Mesh will be aware of the fact that we often talk about FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and their use in the high performance trading logistics chain,...
View ArticleFPGA â Beyond Market Data
In this article, Mike O’Hara, Publisher of The Trading Mesh, talks to Mike Schonberg of Quincy Data, Laurent de Barry and Nicolas Karonis of Enyx and Henry Young of TS-Associates, about how and where...
View ArticleFast, Smart and Integrated â The New Trading Ideal
By Theo HildyardLife cannot be easy for those in the low latency trading game right now. In recent months - and particularly since the publication of Michael Lewis’s “Flash Boys” - we have seen a...
View ArticleFree Resource: Continuous Testing Infographic
The electronic trading industry has suffered a rash of system failures over the past few years – and each has pointed to the need for more testing. Time and again it has been shown that the risk of not...
View ArticleLondonâs Innovating Enterprises Helping Derivatives Traders
2014 is commonly recognised as ‘crunch year’ with new asset classes being systematically pushed onto regulated exchanges as part of the G20 drive towards increased transparency in financial markets....
View ArticleBuild vs Buy becomes Rent vs Collaborate
This article was originally published at the Fidessa blog, and is reproduced here with permission. By Steve Grobread more...
View ArticlePerformance Considerations in FX Trading Platforms
In this article, Mike O’Hara, publisher of The Trading Mesh, talks to Ash Gawthorp of The Test People, Matt Barrett of Adaptive Consulting, Andy Phillips of LMAX Exchange and Dan Marcus of ParFX about...
View ArticleHigher hurdles for smaller firms?
Direct market access (DMA) forms a significant part of the market given the regulatory hoops and high fixed costs that a full exchange membership implies. While today large trading firms may let their...
View ArticleDiscovering the Web's Hidden Alpha
How the buyside can make full use of online informationread more...
View ArticleBig Data takes the stage
Financial services firms are all grappling with similar operational, risk, and regulatory challenges, and trying to meet these challenges with tight budgets and resources. What can they do to gain a...
View ArticleWhite paper from Fidessa: A Revolution in Post-trade
Defining a new approach for buy-side post-trade workflowread more...
View ArticleBringing Predictive Intelligence into Trading Operations
By Theo HildyardWe hear increasingly these days about how the focus of electronic trading is shifting from speed to intelligence. In fact, my previous blog post was about how it is essential for firms...
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