AXA’s global head of trading and securities financing says the asset manager will have to rely on AI and predictive analytics to give traders condensed information.
Market participants at TradeTech have agreed that trading volumes have failed to shift to lit venues under MiFID II, but the regulation has led to unintended positive developments in the form of periodic auctions.
Industry experts talk down immediate results from machine learning and that there are no shortcuts to success.
Emerging markets expert sees opportunity in active management and says now is the time to move away from the index.
Speakers at this year's TradeTech conference laid out how buy-side firms can take advantage of untapped alternative data.
Market maker-run systematic internalisers are bedding in to market structures but transparency concerns are still lingering.
Despite buy-side citing use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) as a larger focus post-MiFID II, Citi's market structure head for EMEA says the bank is actually seeing the converse in action.
Building a flexible, diverse skill set on the trading desk is essential to adapting to evolving market conditions and growing at scale says Supurna VedBrat.
Bank adds a number of new hires across its global investment grade trading desks from rivals including JP Morgan, Citi and Deutsche Bank.
The TRADE’s 2019 Algorithmic Trading Survey finds brokers are stepping up to the plate in the post-MiFID II landscape as banks struggle to keep pace.