“The Times They Are A-Changin.” Jason Rand, global head of electronic trading and distribution at Berenberg, sets out how democratising access to quantitative execution analytics and data visualisations can lead to better trading outcomes for participants, irrespective of size.

As EU policymakers continue their negotiations on the Mifir review, The TRADE speaks with Nick Dutton, chief regulatory officer at Cboe Europe, and Niki Beattie, chief executive of Market Structure Partners, to reflect on some of the key topics and overall importance of the process to the EU.

As European trading volumes continue to grow, RFQ 2.0 meets a need for better liquidity outcomes and post-trade efficiency.

To remain competitive, investment firms are letting their employees work from anywhere. But the industry needs to overcome some unique barriers first.

To access bigger and broader sets of tools and markets, tier one asset managers are leveraging outsourced trading to supercharge their inhouse capabilities.

Relatively new entrant, Cboe BIDS Europe, has become the largest electronic block trading platform and is seeking to support rather than compete with the traditional high touch model, write Natan Tiefenbrun, president, Cboe Europe, and Stephen Berte, president, BIDS Trading.

With monthly cleared NDF volumes consistently over $1.75 trillion this year and client clearing YTD volume reaching $313 billion in August at LCH ForexClear, Andrew Batchelor, LCH ForexClear chief operating officer and head of product, sits down with The TRADE to explore how the foreign exchange clearing landscape is evolving in light of major regulatory change and greater buy-side involvement.

UBS-developed machine learning techniques have been successfully employed to make context-aware adjustments in routing behaviour to extract value from differences in venue-placement for its cash equities offerings in the US and EMEA.

Home to seven national exchanges, Euronext is further integrating its capital markets value chain whilst maintaining superior market quality for equity trading, to the benefit of a wide variety of market participants.

Banning payment for order flow (PFOF) and only allowing large trades to be executed on systemtic internalisers (SI) should be prioritised over implementing a tape, writes James McKeone, VP and head of European data at NASDAQ.