TradingScreen, a provider of multi-broker, multi-product EMS trading platforms, has launched a suite of new services which it claims will help its clients comply with the impending best execution obligations under MiFID, and meet their own internal compliance and post-trade requirements.
In 2007, 579 US financial institutions are expected to deploy new cash management technologies, according to a new report by research and advisory firm Aite Group. This figure is up 30% from 2006.
In 2006, 53% of institutional equities trades in the US were executed through direct market access (DMA), algorithms, programs or crossing networks and with steady growth in every electronic execution channel that percentage will increase to 64% by 2008, according to “Trading at Light Speed: Analyzing Low-Latency Infrastructure”, the latest research report from the TABB Group.
Charles Schwab has come top of a survey of retail online brokerage firms conducted by research and advisory firm Aite Group. In a new report, Leaders of the Pack in Online Brokerage Capabilities, Aite Group compared retail online brokerage firms and ranks the top five based on participant responses.