Algorithmic trading
Deutsche Börse building equities dark pool
Move comes hot on heels of Euronext launching its own dark pool
Will generative AI crack the code for bank tech teams?
Banks could roll out tools to help translate old – or write new – code within months
LMAX taps real money clients with Cürex deal
Acquisition aims to offer liquidity providers diverse flows from asset managers
Measuring expected cost models on large FX trades
BestX study assesses factors influencing algo performance on trades over $100m in size
Assessing the potential profitability of automated power market trading using event signals sourced from grid frequency data
The authors put forward a profitable trading strategy based on power grid events, demonstrating that minimized reaction times can increase profits.
Better tech brings threat of two-speed trading in fixed income
Smaller asset managers may get left behind as automation allows the big players to prosper
All-to-all no panacea for Treasury liquidity
Traders fear push for equity-style market could be detrimental to off-the-run securities
Electronic FX swaps execution advances on 360t
Sun platform could help banks auto-hedge and develop algo execution for the instruments
Why GTS bought HC Tech’s FX business
Rubenstein and Rosenwald open up on reasons for the deal – plus US lawsuit and culture questions
How patchy liquidity is stymieing systematic credit
…and what investors like AllianceBernstein, Man Numeric and Acadian are doing about it
Flow Traders bullish about threat from big banks
Talking Heads 2023: Non-bank market-maker remains confident of its edge in small-ticket corporate credit
Exploiting causal biases in market impact models
Model calibration gains efficiency by including biased but adjusted trading data
Getting more for less: better A / B testing via causal regularisation
A causal machine learning algorithm is used to estimate trades’ price impact
Plugging the leaks in skewed pricing
Liquidity recycling has made it trickier for LPs to identify information leakage
Why NDF execution algos might still hit the spot
Products have yet to live up to initial hype, but their long-term potential for investors remains significant
Equity traders ticked off by SEC price increment plan
BlackRock and Citadel Securities push back on minimum price increments for OTC equities trades
RBC eyes AI to bolster FX and rates algos
Canadian bank plans to take deep reinforcement learning tech from equities to fixed income and currencies
Benchmarking deep neural networks for low-latency trading and rapid backtesting
Faster, more powerful graphics processing units have the potential to transform algorithmic trading and offer a credible alternative to more expensive devices, explain Nvidia’s technology engineering team
Club rules? How German retail trading venues shut out PTFs
Murky rule books prevent non-bank market-makers from competing for Europe’s growing online customer demand
P2P platforms look to bring banks into the fold
The USP of peer-to-peer FX matching venues is that they cut out the middleman. So why are they now inviting them in?
Treasury traders remain wary about adopting algos
Yet proponents insist US government bond market is ‘ready for disruption’