Group Co.Commentary
DLT, Beyond Settlement: A Roundtable Write-up
Sister publication Global Trading sponsored a Thought Leadership Roundtable entitled DLT: Beyond Settlement. The event took place October 3 at the ASX office in Sydney.
Departments
Traders Poll
As the retail brokers have raced to lower commissions to zero for trades, will this translate into a profound change in the institutional equity marketplace?
- Yes
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40%
- No
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32%
- A slight change at best
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28%
Channel
News
Managers Optimize Fee Negotiation Structures to Align with Pricing Philosophy
Fee compression requires institutional asset managers to adopt flexible pricing practices, says one market consultancy.
BestXStats Adds TCA Module to Platform
The TCA Module is fully customizable and allows the user to choose from a variety of filtering and grouping mechanisms to truly create a bespoke report.
Plato Partnership Introduces BabelFish Analytics' ‘ClarityReveal' TCA as ‘Plato-Clarity'
By using Plato-Clarity, European buy and sell-side market participants will be able to better understand algorithmic trading challenges.
Articles
Structural Changes in Canada
More change is coming to the equity trading markets of the Great White North.
Omega ATS's New Lynx Venue Opens for Business
Canada's Omega ATS has opened its second trading venue in the Great White North -Lynx ATS. After receiving final approval and making all the tweaks and getting its trading technology in order, the new venue is officially open for business.
PDQ Opens New Institutional Desk
PDQ ATS is looking to get into the institutional trading business and has started an institutional equities group to get the buyside's business and its bigger trades. And it has hired two new ex-exchange pros to help get the new venture going.
The Dark Pool Rises
The dark markets have become so efficient that the costs of execution and market impact are lower than at the display markets, where take fees are highest and market impact is most significant.
Dark Pool Trade Size Down
Traders believe dark pools have entered a "mature phase" and use them to avoid "toxic liquidity" from high-frequency trading firms, but the size of trades in those pools is getting smaller. These are among a few findings from a new report published by market research firm Celent.
Fragmentation Stirs Ire
Industry professionals took the opportunity to gripe about the proliferation of stock exchanges at this year's Security Industry and Financial Markets Association market structure conference.
