As cloud adoption across the market continues to rise, is the shift of liquidity itself next to follow?

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.

Conscious usage of TCA: Making trade analytics more actionable

With data becoming unavoidably vital to the trading desk, Wesley Bray explores how traders are delving past traditional TCA and collaborating with data scientists on the desk to help gain a deeper understanding of market dynamics, in order to make better informed trading decisions.

Smoke and mirrors: The growth of two-way pricing in fixed income

Annabel Smith explores the market’s growing interest in the request for market protocol, including the desire to shroud market impact, use cases, and whether or not it will ever become fully applicable for the buy-side when trading credit.