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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 11, 2012 1:52 pm
Europe’s financial markets are set to be impacted substantially as a result of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The ruling stipulates a number of new measures that banks and companies exchanging financial products will need to abide by, meaning [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 3, 2012 11:55 am
Diana Chan, CEO of EuroCCP writes this exclusive report for TradeTech Post Trade.An essential read for anyone concerned with post trade from one of the leading luminaries of the sector. Since last year’s TradeTech conference in London, clearing competition among [...]
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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 / April 23, 2012 11:30 pm
Nick Nielsen joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is head of trading in London. Prior to this, he was at Citadel Investment Group in London and Chicago. He started his career in high frequency trading at Goldman Sach’s Hull [...]
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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 / April 3, 2012 1:59 pm
Check out this amazing new infographic from our friends at Asia Etrading charting the fascinating history of South Korea’s Capital Markets. Since 1949, when South Korea opened its first securities house the country has realized a remarkable change in its [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 17, 2012 4:50 pm
As literally everyone who deals with derivatives will know by now is that the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) makes no sense grammatically, but has nonetheless been agreed by the all-seeing druids of the European Commission. The intentions seem laudable [...]
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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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Kelly Hushin / January 23, 2012 7:28 pm
By Carson Dahlberg, CMT Special to the TradeTech Blog The (EEM) iShares MSCI Emerging Index Fund exemplifies the outperformance this sector has had recently over the S&P500 benchmark that many use (3.25% above over the last 21 trading days). Also [...]