Attracting and retaining the brightest talent available has become the new battleground for investment banks as new compliance obligations and technology developments create warring factions desperate to secure the best personnel possible. Hayley McDowell tells the story behind this method of attack and finds out that a talent shortage could be just on the horizon for major players.
Buy-side priorities have been historically dominated by regulatory concerns, but a survey of senior FX buy-siders carried out by Worldwide Business Research suggests that automation is now taking over. Hayley McDowell examines the benefits, challenges and progress as asset managers look to reduce the human touch on trading desks.
The active versus passive trading debate has evolved with the emergence of new technologies and products, but does this make any difference to the end investor?
Speakers at this year’s TradeTech conference were keen to extol the virtues of artificial intelligence and machine learning, but perceptions around transparency and trust must be addressed.
Systematic internalisers, periodic auctions, artificial intelligence, data and diversity were among the key talking points at this year's TradeTech conference.