Increasing focus on risk management and growing use of advanced trading techniques could prompt US futures trading volumes to rise 14% in 2010 following a 23% slump in 2009, according to a new study by research and consulting firm TABB Group.
Although the depths of the financial crisis led to a frenzy of share trading activity in Q4 2008, equity traders woke up to a different world in 2009. Lower volumes and values combined to create treacherous trading conditions in which the optimum execution strategy was rarely certain.
InfoReach, a provider of execution management systems and connectivity, has further enhanced the foreign exchange capabilities of its InfoReach Trade Management System (TMS).
Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X Europe is to follow rival trading venues BATS Europe and Nasdaq OMX Europe by introducing trading in Irish shares.
Employing a single system to manage both order and execution management, rather than using one or the other or attempting to integrate two disparate systems, is gaining currency among technology vendors and the buy-side, according to Tom Driscoll, managing director, global, at trading technology firm Charles River Development.
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has reported a 56% growth in the trading of listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in 2009, the third straight year in which record turnover has been recorded.
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is increasing its derivatives trading hours for contracts with T+1 sessions to accommodate growing international demand for Asian equity derivatives.
German exchange group Deutsche Börse will attempt to persuade the Frankfurt Regional Court to lift before the end of the month the injunction that closed its new electronic bond market.