Strong, deep-rooted relationships and the right technological infrastructure are the keys to buy-side success in the emerging markets space, say expert TradeTech panellists.

With the relationship between data and technology more intrinsically linked than ever, expert panellists at TradeTech 2024 analysed how to best confront rising costs and leverage the tools on offer to improve execution.

With derivatives arguably less exotic than in times gone by, firms are adapting execution styles and hoping for a more interconnected future for the European equities space.

The key to addressing the key challenges around liquidity sourcing is for everyone to know where each player stands and the context behind the numbers, experts at TradeTech Europe’s liquidity sourcing panel agreed.

Speaking at the TradeTech Europe 2024 conference, Challenger makes his case for architecture over functionality as firms seek to future-proof their technology strategies.

The TRADE sits down with John Kain, head of worldwide financial services market development at AWS to discuss the continuing growth of cloud adoption across the trading world, unpacking the evolution of its use in key strategies, market readiness, and how things are set to continue to develop going forward.

In late 2023, The TRADE and Optiver partnered on the buy-side European cash equity trading survey, uncovering key trends in the space through original research, delving into: market structure, real time transaction cost analysis (TCA), buy-side broker relationships, data costs, consolidated tape plans and more.

With the topic of data becoming increasingly central to market developments, The TRADE sat down with Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX, to unpack the role of data in how trading strategies are evolving, how the buy-side is preparing for a data-driven future, and the regulatory considerations at the fore of the industry’s attention.

The firms are banking on the fact that independent data “is the key to objective price measurement and improved trading outcomes”.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust is the first Japanese asset manager to adopt the ITP services through Nomura Research Institute’s (NRI) SmartBridge Advance – a collaborative offering built in partnership by DTCC and NRI.