Best Execution Services not systems: what capabilities do you need to run your capital markets business and how do you acquire them most effectively? Our lives continue to be transformed by remarkable new digital services. The smartphones in our pockets open up a world of possibilities, with apps providing transportation services, grocery ordering and streaming entertainment. User
simplicity Simple is powerful: why integrated, automated technology is the future of capital markets Efficiency is evolution. The desire to make life easier is a human instinct. In almost every instance, simplification holds the key. The seamless union of form and function is innately satisfying: imagine an
Capital Markets Carrying a torch for fairness: why the Olympic ideal and spirit of fair play is as vital for capital markets as elite sport. Tokyo has welcomed 11,091 athletes to compete in 33 sports and 339 events at the 32nd modern Olympic Games, despite the ongoing Covid pandemic. From Artistic Swimming to Slalom Canoe, Dressage to
Best Execution Challenges that advance your company’s ethos and principles are always worth accepting. Sometimes, a challenge aligns so closely with a company’s ethos and principles it becomes almost a duty to accept. By developing a prototype of a post-trade consolidated tape for European bond markets,
Build Back Better Build back better? Innovation, inspiration and creativity are the keys. To innovate is to evolve. With “build back better” the post-pandemic rallying cry, Chris Murphy, CEO and Co-Founder of Ediphy, argues that inspiration and creativity must become standard operating procedure.
Technology Ready to click up a gear? Picture the scene..... As a seasoned track rider I am sitting on a 1999 R1, engine warming, waiting for the green light with rain beating against both visor and screen. With 15 other
data Actionable data? Yes...... I am a strong advocate for Neptune Networks, having previously had a seat on the Neptune Board whilst running fixed income eCommerce at UniCredit. I can testify that their pre-trade data is indeed
Trade Execution Outsourced Trading The COVID-19 Pandemic may prove yet to have been a catalyst for long lasting change in the way financial services firms organise their businesses. The Capco Intelligence piece, ‘Outsourced Trading: Who, What &
Technology "Smartphones aren’t a combination of a corded landline and an under-the-desk PC tower" We love this quote from Kevin McPartlands' recent article, The Fixed-Income Trading System Evolution - Creating Something Completely New. We fully endorse the sentiments expressed, so much so that we are building our
Regulation New Regulation.......... Ready? As we all reset to a normality in which COVID-19 and the necessary social and work measures required to help contain it are very much a part, we will inevitably be required to
Trade Execution Challenging Complexity I have been reminded by Chris Murphy, usually in the prelude to introducing the Ediphy Execution-as-a-Service offering to potential partners or clients, that I have 30+ years of financial markets experience!........
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MiFID II What Price Non-Compliance? The report yesterday, by Samuel Agini writing in the Financial News, that the FCA has given UK based trading venues a 31st March hard deadline to be fully compliant with MiFID II trade
Best Execution Best Execution and The Lean Startup As the full effects of MiFID II are still being absorbed by the financial industry there remains a wide range of views about what constitutes a solution to the best execution requirements.At
