The TRADE sits down with Man Group’s head of algo execution technology, Pranav Malhotra, to explore the firm’s future algorithmic strategy and the importance of consolidating systems to reduce cognitive loads. 

Natasha Cocksedge examines some of the key insights from The TRADE’s latest Algorithmic Trading: Hedge Funds Survey, highlighting that ‘speed’ is no longer a top priority for the buy-side when it comes to the main drivers behind algo usage, with factors such as ‘greater anonymity’ increasingly coming to the fore. 

Claudia Preece unpacks some of the key findings from The TRADE’s latest Execution Management Systems Survey, which highlighted how shifts in buy-side priorities is leading to notable changes in their approach to EMS’ – with the importance of breadth of coverage and connectivity more evident than ever.

Claudia Preece sits down with one of The TRADE's 2024 Rising Stars and equity trader at Pictet Asset Management, Jade Beckmann, to discuss the dynamic on the firm’s desk, delving into what’s front of mind for the team for the rest of 2025 and unpacking which factors are set to have the biggest impact on traders’ day-to-day life now, and into the future.

Ahead of the launch of The TRADE’s EMS Survey for 2025, Wesley Bray dives into the findings from last year’s iteration, exploring key progressions as well as which areas should be front of mind for the development of the sphere.

As the adoption of AI surges across capital markets, sentiment is on the up despite some trepidation, but what should be considered before everyone dives headfirst into integration? Claudia Preece weighs risk versus reward and takes stock of where the newest AI capabilities could throw up some curveballs when it comes to trading.

In celebration of The TRADE’s twentieth birthday, editor Annabel Smith rounds up the 20 greatest trading innovations of the last few decades, exploring the solutions that have overhauled and reimagined the processes that traders depend on day in and day out to execute in the markets.

Annabel Smith explores the potential contenders to provide the European equities consolidated tape following the opening of ESMA’s consultation, unpacking the watchdog’s rules around consortiums, the future role of data providers, and assessing if anyone will step up to the plate to contend with EuroCTP, the only current bidder and exchange-backed initiative.

As cloud adoption picks up pace across the capital markets industry, Claudia Preece examines what leading market experts think about the current state of play and what the future holds. Cloud providers are banking on the fact that exchanges moving to the cloud will effectively “drag” the rest of their surrounding ecosystem along with them, asserts one market onlooker.