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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 2, 2012 4:06 pm
When I grew up, a Jack-of-all-trades was an insult. Being a master of nothing was never going to get you anywhere. But times they are a-changing and if you look at any teenager today, they are constantly multitasking in a [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / November 3, 2011 12:41 pm
Landmines and automated mice are not necessarily the first things to spring to mind when contemplating the landscape of global trading – but they were part of the picture painted during the opening address at the TradeTech Architecture event held [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 28, 2011 4:52 pm
We are very excited to bring you this last post before the weekend, exclusive to the TradeTech Blog, written by David Hughes, Director of ATMonitor, the buy-side only trading intelligence service… The financial markets generally believe that the crisis in [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 26, 2011 10:02 am
Just back from a two week trip around Asia and Australia that took in dark pool seminars in Hong Kong and Singapore and attendance at the FPL conference in Sydney. In my absence, it seems like the Eurocrats in Brussels [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 21, 2011 4:42 pm
It’s been two years in the making, with speculation, hearsay, leaks and lobbying-a-plenty, but finally the MiFID II proposal has now been published by the European Commission. What a shame, then, that its arrival has been met more with a [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 5, 2011 9:00 am
With the ‘big reveal’ of MiFID II imminent, firms that make use of HFT are preparing to make an aggressive push into the European options markets thanks to the new trading platforms the regulation will create, according to a new [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / August 31, 2011 12:30 pm
Since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) was implemented less than four years ago, the structure and environment of secondary market equity trading across Europe has been modified enormously. If investment firms are to navigate the ongoing regulatory change, [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / August 24, 2011 10:53 am
Ever since its EU-wide implementation in November 2007, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has significantly modified the structure and environment of secondary market equity trading across Europe. As the Nordic economies continue to lead on the global stage, [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / July 8, 2011 12:00 am
As anyone who knows anything about High Frequency Trading knows that the difference of a microsecond can make all the difference to your success as a trader. More and more traders across the world are investing in technologies to bring [...]
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Kelly Hushin / July 6, 2011 2:24 pm
When national television programs start talking about a topic you thought only your industry cared about, you know it’s hot. That was undoubtedly proven when 60 Minutes originally aired a segment about high frequency trading late last year, and then [...]