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A Trader’s Guide To The FIX Protocol
By Irfan Syed, Managing Director, Fixnox The FIX protocol, like many other computer protocols, has always been a domain of techies. They are the ones to set up new FIX connections and ‘certify’ them by...
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Mathematically Verifying Algorithms
With Denis Ignatovich and Grant Passmore, Co-Founders of Aesthetic Integration We were college roommates at UT Austin and both ended up in the UK around the time of the Knight Capital and BATS IPO...
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Building A Global Firm
By Eric Böss, Global Head of Trading and Christoph Mast, Global Head of Equity Trading, Allianz Global Investors. Christoph: Allianz Global Investors historically had a trading setup focussed on...
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Investment Management Working Group: Handing Over The Reins
With Paul Squires, Global Head of Trading And Securities Financing, AXA IM and Adam Conn, Head of Dealing, Baring Asset Management The Investment Management Working Group (IMWG) had been set up to...
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Finding Blocks – A Case Study – Industry Collaboration in Action
With Robert Barnes, CEO, Turquoise, Jonathan Finney, Head of Systematic Trading EMEAA, Fidelity International, and James Hilton, Co-Head AES Sales EMEA, Credit Suisse Robert: In an order book...
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Driving Execution Venue Analysis To A Global Audience
With Brian Lees, Chair, Execution Venue Sub-Group, Global Buy-Side Committee, AVP, Trading Technology Manager, Capital Group and Irina Sonich-Bright, Director, AES Business Development, Credit Suisse,...
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Deepening Risk Management Practice: Technological Glitch Planning
With Leo Li, Equity Operational Risk Manager, Vanguard Many asset managers currently use one Execution Management System (EMS) to manage connections with all brokers. Usually this situation starts with...
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Blocks And The Broker Review
By Kent Rossiter, Head of Asia Pacific Trading, Allianz Global Investors There are risks around everything we do, and every decision our traders take impacts the final results of our executions. We...
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Analysing The Cost Of FX Trades
With Daniel Chambers, Head of Trading, Sequoia Capital Fund Management Sequoia Capital Fund Management (SCFM) is an alternative investment management company specialising in investing via quantitative...
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A Fixed Income Perspective
With Jutta Schneider, European Head of Fixed Income Trading, Allianz Global Investors We currently trade 80-90% of our fixed income electronically, so we are ahead of the curve compared to many other...
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Trading Small Caps: Communication Is Key
With Daphne Chang, Dealer, Acorn Capital While liquidity is important for all traders, it is crucial for small cap traders. Portfolio managers regularly demand positions of at least 5% of a company’s...
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Three Desks, One Region
With Joe Rodela, Head of US Head of US Trading Trading, Allianz Global Investors US Trading at Allianz Global Investors operates within a global trading platform – but with a regional approach. We now...
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The State Of Buy-Side Technology
With Carlos Oliveira, Electronic Trading Solutions at Brandes Investment Partners, L.P. There are always numerous pressures on buy-side technologists to update and improve platforms. There are demands...
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Bringing The Sell-side To The Buy-side
With John Christofilos, Vice-President and Head Trader, AGF Investments Inc. Looking back, my career developed on the trading floors in the financial district of Toronto, Canada. Fresh out of...
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The Shifting Sell-Side To Buy-Side Responsibility
With Neil Bond, Head Trader, Partner, Ardevora Asset Management Of the 25 years I spent working on the sell-side, most of it was spent on program trading and algos, which are quite intimately linked....
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Driving IOI Reform
With George Molina, Director of Asian Trading, Franklin Templeton As a buy-side group, we have been working on IOI reform for over four years, trying to find the best guidelines, drawing up a code of...
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The Changing Dynamic Of Post-Trading Operations
With Dean Chisholm, Regional Head of Operations, Asia Pacific, Invesco Across the post-trade platform, the same trends of the last two to three years are continuing. At a macro level for asset...
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Best Execution In MiFID II
With Arjun Singh-Muchelle, Senior Advisor, Regulatory Affairs, Institutional and Capital Markets, Investment Association There are two main requirements which have an impact on the buy-side with regard...
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Broadening The Base: Using The Entire Trading Lifecycle To Improve Execution
GlobalTrading Hong Kong Roundtable Write-up Regulatory developments are amplifying pressure on trading desks to offer their shareholders and clients greater returns. At the same time, a newfound...
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Oases Forming On The Liquidity Landscape
James Cooper, Head of Execution at Troy Asset Management argues that institutional dealers are refusing to concede defeat in their struggle to cope with a challenging liquidity environment. Barely a...
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