Friday, January 17, 2025

FLASH FRIDAY

Flash Friday
FLASH FRIDAY: Paul Jiganti, Over and Out

FLASH FRIDAY: Paul Jiganti, Over and Out

Newly retired industry veteran has traded in an airplane seat for a bike seat.

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Traders Feature

Wall Street Faces 200k Job Cuts as AI Transforms Workforce

Back office, middle office and operations are vulnerable areas, Bloomberg Intelligence report says.

LATEST NEWS

Buy Side Firms Gear Up to Integrate AI

SimCorp report stresses the urgency for standardized data modeling and a unified data layer.

Broadridge Enhances Multi-Asset Post Trade Processing with GenAI-Powered Analytics

New functionality enables users to generate insights from trade data using natural language.

Russell US Indexes to Move to a Semi-Annual Reconstitution Frequency from 2026

Indexes will be rebalanced on the fourth Friday in June and the second Friday in November.

EXECUTION MATTERS: Assessing Trading Speed

Microseconds matter, but for many firms it’s more about being smarter and fast enough rather than just being fastest.

BlackRock Foundation, Commonwealth Partner on Retail Investor Research

"The Investor Diaries" will assess investors who entered retail capital markets since 2020.

U.S. Equity Trading Commissions Rebounded in 2024

Strength is attributed to cautious optimism on the part of the buy side.

Outlook 2025: Chris Isaacson, Cboe Global Markets

Notable trends include tech evolution, increasingly globalized markets, and 24-hour trading.

US Enforcement Actions Hit Record High in 2024 as FCA Fines Tripled

The SEC was "steadfast in its mission to crack down on off-channel communications," SteelEye report notes.

Coverage Gaps, Data Delays Vex Investment Research Industry

Bloomberg report shows clients have trouble "wrangling with and normalizing" large and disparate data sets.

TECH TUESDAY

TECH TUESDAY: Top 10 Charts from 2024

Topics of interest ranged from introductions to options and short selling to latency to making markets better for issuers and investors.

Commentary

The Call for Automation to Enhance Compliance and the Investor Experience is Here – Will Asset Managers Respond?

The Call for Automation to Enhance Compliance and the Investor Experience is Here – Will Asset Managers Respond?
By Terry Flynn, Managing Director - Asset Management and Insurance, Fenergo Asset...

ON THE MOVE

BUYSIDE

AI Must be Better Integrated into Investment Process

AI Must be Better Integrated into Investment Process
Buy-side survey shows a need for support with investment analysis, decision making, risk management, and more.

Clearwater Analytics to Acquire Enfusion for $1.5 Billion

Clearwater Analytics to Acquire Enfusion for $1.5 Billion
Aim is to create a unified, cloud-native front-to-back platform to serve institutional investors.

Trading Technologies: ‘All Engines Firing’ for 2025

Trading Technologies: ‘All Engines Firing’ for 2025
Leading global capital markets technology platform services provider has five businesses “at the foothills of opportunity,” CEO Keith Todd says.

Sentiment Rose Across Derivatives Markets in Q4 2024

Sentiment Rose Across Derivatives Markets in Q4 2024
The US election and strengthen in Asia helped drive derivatives industry sentiment higher vs Q3.

REGULATION

Outlook 2025: Jim Kaye, FIX Trading Community

The tokenization of securities and AI are poised for significant development.

The Era of Data Modernization, Quality and Governance is Here

By Bryan Dougherty, Head of Product and Technology, Arcesium

Outlook 2025: Steve Marshall, FinScan

Director of Advisory Services expects more focus on compliance and implementation of new regulations.

RETAIL REPORT

Outlook 2025: Anthony Denier, Webull

24 hour trading is a natural progression of retail investor demands and expectations, Group President said.

Outlook 2025: Andrew Waters, TradingHub

Global Head of Regulatory Affairs expects trade manipulation and fraud to be regulatory focus areas.

Brokerage

Trading Technologies launches TT Broker Scorecard

Monthly report ranks global and regional equity brokers by liquidity and execution quality.

Pico, BMLL Partner on Data Integration

Quantitative and high-performance traders can streamline their workflows with a unified set of technologies.

Bridging the Liquidity Divide: A Path to Smarter Options Trading

By Gino Stella, Sales and Trading Manager, TradingBlock

Outlook 2025: Alan Polo, Liquidnet

Custom algo solutions are being deployed to meet specific trading strategies and risk profiles.

DTCC Executive Predictions for 2025

CEO Frank La Salla says the firm will lead on the transition to the SEC's US Treasury Clearing rule.

Digital Assets

Crypto is Poised to Improve Regulated Markets, Not Disrupt Them

By Aaron Kaplan, co-CEO, Prometheum Inc.

Lessons from a Decade of European Crypto ETPs: Insights for the U.S. Market

By Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares

EDX Markets Deploys Eventus’ Validus for Digital Assets Trade Surveillance

EDX CEO says the Validus platform is widely accepted by regulators and was seamless to integrate.

Tokenization in Financial Services: Ready for Prime Time? 

By James Hiester, Ervinas Janavicius and Bhavik Domadia, Capco

EDX Appoints Jamil Nazarali Executive Chair; Tony Acuña-Rohter Named CEO

EDX appoints Jamil Nazarali Executive Chair, Tony Acuña-Rohter to serve as CEO EDX Markets Holding Co., Inc. (“EDX”), a...

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