marketsmedia 2021-02-20 02:41 Markets Choice Awards Slated for April 22 Markets Media Group is pleased to present the 2021 Markets Choice Awards, to be held on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Nominations are now... marketsmedia 2021-02-18 20:37 Settlement, PFOF in Focus at GameStop Hearing Last month shares in GameStop rose 1,600% as retail investors drove up the price after users of online forum Reddit had posted that hedge... marketsmedia 2021-02-18 01:28 In the FX Market, Capital-Lite is In For institutional foreign exchange traders, there is executing trades... marketsmedia 2021-02-17 00:03 IEX Increases Lit Volume With D-Limit Order Displayed share at IEX Group has risen from 10% to 30% of total trading volume since it introduced a new order type last year, which the... marketsmedia 2021-02-09 00:54 REDD Finds Signal From Noise In Emerging Markets Valeria Morozovsky Girimonte, group chief executive and co-founder of REDD Intelligence, jokes that as she grew up in Argentina she was...
marketsmedia 2021-02-03 01:34 Mosaic Launches ‘Netflix’ Recommendations For Traders Mosaic Smart Data is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to spot potential opportunities in capital markets as well as providing real-time data analytics on trades. The firm is launching MSX360, which...
marketsmedia 2021-02-02 19:59 Is Low Code the Next Front-Office Revolution? In the sell side’s eternal quest to add efficiency and gain a competitive edge, there’s a new concept gaining traction: empowering the trading technologists, quants and even tech-savvy traders with new tools that...
marketsmedia 2021-02-02 01:41 Time to Unlock the Payments Processing Conundrum By Laurence Jones, Post-Trade Strategy at CME Group’s Traiana To say the industry has been through some seismic changes over the past decade is an understatement to put it mildly. From ever increasing defaults and...
marketsmedia 2021-01-30 00:42 US Equity Trading Volume Reaches Record A record number of US equities were traded on 27 January as retail investors bought shares in retailer GameStop, which had been shorted by some hedge funds. The volume of shares traded in U.S. equity markets reached an...
marketsmedia 2021-01-20 00:27 Crypto Industry Eyes Gensler At SEC Gary Gensler has been nominated as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and his expertise in fintech and digital currency could lead to new regulatory approvals such as a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Gary...
marketsmedia 2021-01-18 23:38 IntelligentCross ATS Targets Top Five Ranking Roman Ginis, founder and chief executive of Imperative Execution, expects IntelligentCross, its equity trading venue powered by artificial intelligence, to break into the top five for volumes on alternative trading...
marketsmedia 2021-01-15 01:00 2020 Was Turning Point For Fixed Income ETFs And ESG Laurence Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, said he expects the firm to manage $1 trillion in sustainable assets by the end of this decade and the same amount in fixed income exchange-traded funds in the...
marketsmedia 2021-01-14 02:58 US Market Structure Regulation To Continue In 2021 Regulation on US market structure is likely to continue this year as the Democrats control Congress and Gary Gensler has been reportedly appointed as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kevin McPartland,...
marketsmedia 2021-01-14 01:45 Buy-Side Goal: Upgrade Technology As the institutional investment management business gets more expansive, complex and competitive, the technology underlying its processes needs to evolve with it. Cost pressures weighing on buy-side firms stem from...
marketsmedia 2021-01-13 01:20 UK Regulators Set Roadmap For End of Sterling Libor The Bank of England and the UK Financial Conduct Authority have set new priorities in order to stop firms using sterling Libor, which is like to stop being published at the end of this year. Tushar Morzaria,...
marketsmedia 2021-01-09 00:30 Arca To Expand Digital Fund Suite Arca, which last year launched the first fund offering digital shares that is registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, is planning to expand its suite of Blockchain Transferred Funds (BTFs). Jerald...
marketsmedia 2021-01-08 20:51 2021 Outlook: Tony Huck, Score Priority Tony Huck is CEO of Score Priority Corp., a financial technology and brokerage firm. What were the key theme(s) for your business in 2020? Tony Huck, Score Priority The trading industry overall thrives on volatility....
marketsmedia 2021-01-08 20:39 2021 Outlook: Mazy Dar, OpenFin Mazy Dar is CEO of OpenFin, which provides an integrated desktop application ecosystem for financial firms. What were the key theme(s) for your business in 2020? Mazy Dar, OpenFin The key themes for our business were...
marketsmedia 2021-01-07 22:34 2021 Outlook: Eric Einfalt, Eventus Systems Eric Einfalt is Chief Strategy Officer of Eventus Systems, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions. What were the key themes for your business in 2020? Eric Einfalt, Eventus...
marketsmedia 2021-01-07 20:41 2021 Outlook: Lisa Iagatta, ISITC Lisa Iagatta is Chair of the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC). What surprised you in 2020? Lisa Iagatta, ISITC If I had to summarize 2020 in three words, I would say...
marketsmedia 2021-01-07 20:25 TAIFEX 2020 and Beyond 2020 has been a year of uncertainty and change. The global pandemic and the constant shifts in the geopolitical landscape have fundamentally altered many parts of the global economy. Taiwan, among the world’s foremost...
marketsmedia 2021-01-07 00:23 Refinitiv Adds To Term Sonia Benchmarks Refinitiv is planning to launch a term Sonia benchmark as the race to replace Libor heats up before the reference interest rate is due to stop being published at the end of this year. After the financial crisis there...
marketsmedia 2021-01-06 22:37 2021 Outlook: Bimal Kadikar, Transcend Bimal Kadikar is CEO and Founder of Transcend, which provides a platform for collateral, funding and liquidity optimization. What are the key theme(s) for collateral optimization in 2021? Bimal Kadikar,...
marketsmedia 2021-01-06 20:46 Women in Finance Awards Q&A: Akshata Puri, Virtu Financial Akshata Puri, U.S. Head of ATS Venues at Virtu Financial, won Excellence in Trading Platforms at Markets Media Group’s 2020 Women in Finance (U.S.) Awards. What was your reaction to winning the award? I was honestly...
marketsmedia 2021-01-06 06:19 A Letter From Markets Media Group CEO Mohan Virdee Dear Clients, Friends, Readers, and Supporters, Happy New Year. As we all settle back into our work routines, I wanted to offer a brief update on our upcoming milestone awards event. Markets Media Group is pleased to...