A new survey of 50 leaders in FX trading – 57% of which work for firms managing over $100bn of assets – has been commissioned by The Finance Hive team.
Two years after its introduction in 2017 the FX Global Code (FXGC) is a defining ideal of the FX market, with significant sell-side and more recent buy-side adoption. The FXGC principles are not a regulatory requirement but foster best global practices to avoid market abuse. Additionally, each regulator also has its own standards for monitoring algo and human trading activity.
QCAM Currency Asset Management is the largest independent currency manager in Switzerland and has been in the business for more than 13 years. It offers its own currency overlay services, FX best execution, FX single strategy v-Pro, and general FX advisory and liquidity management solutions. Clients include both public and private pension funds, asset managers, family offices and foundations. It is now in the very early stages of taking a closer look at starting to use FX algos says Andy Schümperli, from the Institutional Sales team at the firm.
QuantInsti (QI) is one of Asia’s pioneering Algorithmic Trading Research and Training Institutes, focused on preparing financial market professionals for the contemporary field of Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading. Headquartered in Mumbai with a subsidiary in Singapore, QI was founded by iRageCapital and a team of Quantitative and High Frequency Traders and domain experts dedicated to providing practical knowledge to professionals interested in Algorithmic Trading.
When would it be used? When wanting to be filled urgently using a wide range of liquidity sources. What does it do? ORCA-Direct uses liquidity from UBS Principal, ECNs & correlated Futures instruments. How does it work? Checks visible liquidity and calculates the price that could be achieved from it Also checks the CME to […]
With the introduction of MiFID II, best execution has become a necessity in all asset classes including FX. TCA can help us to determine the cost of our trading, and in particular ways of reducing it. However, what is the best way to do transaction cost analysis?
The Crédit Agricole Group is the world’s number 13 bank measured by Tier One Capital and, as the No. 1 retail bank in France, is the leading financial partner of the French economy. CACIB is therefore uniquely placed in the market, having strong connections into local markets across Europe and emerging markets globally.
Quod Financial recently published a Whitepaper exploring the growing interest in AI and Machine Learning for use in trading and execution purposes across the Capital Markets. One specific area that was examined focused on the reasons why the Execution Management System was a particularly good candidate for deploying AI and ML. In this article we publish an extract from the Whitepaper looking at the potential applications of these new technologies for optimising algo trading parameters in the EMS space.
Oxford university’s Saïd business school is launching a course in algorithmic trading, The Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter and is led by a powerful team of global experts who share their knowledge in the form of industry insights, videos and discussions.
