"The recent proliferation of electronic trading platforms has created a set of challenges for market participants...These challenges highlight the importance of addressing connectivity...in order to provide access to appropriate platforms and counterparties, as well as to allow aggregation and search functions..."
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More on MiFID II and transparency. We expect to see more OTC trading moving to regulated electronic venues, as these venues are obliged to meet the transparency requirements.
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Tom's blog has been getting a lot of attention over the past month, due to a client sharing the Micro Benchmark Testing results - particularly the mean latency of 0.56 microseconds (stack object pooling using deque).
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Fragmentation in the Fixed Income market continues, with the number of trading venues reaching 128 according to The Trade.
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Blog entry from Intelligent Trading Technology about TransFICC connecting to its first 5 trading venues, proving that it works with a mix of instruments, matching and workflow models, and different protocols like binary and FIX.
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Interesting to hear that FX is facing similar challenges to those faced by Fixed Income
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Steve just finished 'Why Aren't they Shouting?' By Kevin Rodgers, who is recently ex Deutsche Bank FICC. If you want to understand how capital markets work, how banks have evolved and the role of technology, it’s well worth a read.
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Judd discusses the benefits of using a single source tree and how to avoid the pitfalls
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