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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 16, 2012 5:02 pm
The process of algorithmic trading has been debated by a wide number of experts in the financial sector in recent years, yet the debate is far from losing momentum – in fact, it’s hotting up thanks to the onset of [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 14, 2012 1:33 pm
A look into the potential pitfalls of EMIR in the DACH region with Mark Goodmann is Head of Electronic Services – Europe at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. Mark is a man with his fingers very much on the pulse [...]
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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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Kelly Hushin / April 23, 2012 4:32 pm
Emmanuel Doe, President of Trading Solutions at Interactive Data, says that the number one challenge across the financial services industry this year, next and probably for many more to come, is cost. Quite simple. But not quite so simple to [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 7, 2012 3:22 pm
Doubts have been cast over the future of a Tobin tax on Europe’s financial markets after British prime minister David Cameron vetoed an EU treaty that would have included a financial transaction tax. The move has widely been welcomed by [...]
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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 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, [...]