Trading systems
Top 10 op risks 2020: theft and fraud
From mega loan fraud to canteen theft, the danger is ever present
Ion’s Broadway deal leaves banks in a bind
Barclays and Nomura among banks that had moved from Ion to rival it now controls
OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Risk Awards 2020: To keep volumes growing, platform had to confront “incumbent’s dilemma”
Technology vendor of the year: Murex
Risk Awards 2020: Firm bets heavy R&D spend will keep it ahead of shifting client needs
Banks team up for ‘Ion replacement’ project
Consortium weighs building fixed income software in potential threat to Ion, the dominant vendor
Buy side builds bots to cut trade costs
With margins under pressure, investment firms are looking to accelerate automation push
Funds look to ‘retrain’ traders as automation takes hold
As technology reshapes markets, nearly a third of buy-side staff will need to gain new skills
SEC mulls extra scrutiny of US Treasuries trading venues
Roisman suggests US might apply full rigour of Reg ATS to non-exchange Treasuries platforms
Warrants issuers battle algo predators in Hong Kong
Threat of high-frequency traders forces banks to spend big on tech
A threat to the Ion throne?
Banks need connections to e-trading venues; they don’t want the other services that come with them
Compliance preparations amid uncertain rules
A forum of industry leaders discusses how banks will define individual trading desks under FRTB, whether BCBS 239 compliance projects can help banks meet FRTB risk data challenges, which model validation obstacles banks still face and other key topics
To Hull and back: a 20-year hiatus in bank e-trading plans
In the 1990s, banks tried to buy automated trading expertise; now, after a long break, they’re trying to build it
Machine earning: how tech is shaking up bank market-making
As banks get serious about e-trading, humans are being asked to give up their secrets to the machines that could replace them
Symphony bots march on Bloomberg
New chat system touted as sales and trading game-changer, as banks build hundreds of add-ons
Correctness of backtest engines
In this paper, the authors provide tools to test the correctness of backtest engines for setups with at most one entry and one exit.
From swaps to software: rivals eye Goldman and JP tech plans
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan upending years of bank strategy by making systems available to clients
Nonstationarity of the intraday individual and collective seasonalities of price fluctuations
This paper deals with statistical measures based on high frequency data from stock markets, and in particular looks at how these measures changed according to time, with a focus on before and after the crisis of 2008.
Investment opportunities forecasting: a genetic programming-based dynamic portfolio trading system under a directional-change framework
This paper presents an autonomous effective trading system devoted to the support of decision-making processes in the financial market domain.
Trading technology product of the year: FIS
Risk Awards 2017: Front Arena has kept clients despite two acquisitions and regulatory upheaval
JP Morgan to join Goldman in opening up risk system
Athena platform – built for JP Morgan's traders – could be available to clients in 2018
Energy Risk Software Rankings 2015
Top ETRM vendors, implementation specialists, data vendors and data managers
Beyond relational databases: a solution to data fragmentation
Beyond relational databases
Trading technology product of the year: Nasdaq OMX
Trading technology product of the year: Nasdaq OMX