Nicola Tavendale

Strategies & Tactics: Discussing ways to improve FX algo trading outcomes

August 2024 in Industry Views

Asset managers recognise the value of execution quality in helping the performance of their portfolios and have therefore focused on algo and TCA adoption over the past seven to ten years, according to the findings of a recent report from Coalition Greenwich. However, outside of the largest companies, algos and TCA are not as prevalent on a corporate FX desk, but there is a strong case to support the continued adoption of algo execution, which has the potential to “deliver better outcomes for the client”, the study says. What then can FX algo providers do to further encourage buyside engagement with algos, not just in improving execution performance but helping clients to understand the results of their tactics and trading approach? Nicola Tavendale writes.

The Coalition Greenwich report, Corporate FX Trading—The Value of Relationships and Execution Quality compares practices between corporates and asset managers, discussing how the shift to electronic trading and digital innovation is transforming corporate FX trading. “In an age of digital innovation companies who are not giving FX the attention it deserves could be leaving real benefits and money on the table,” says the report’s co-author Stephen Bruel, Senior Analyst in the Market Structure & Technology group at Coalition Greenwich. Today, The Coalition Greenwich report, Corporate FX Trading—The Value of Relationships and Execution Quality compares practices between corporates and asset managers, discussing how the shift to electronic trading and digital innovation is transforming corporate FX trading. “In an age of digital innovation companies who are not giving FX the attention it deserves could be leaving real benefits and money on the table,” says the report’s co-author Stephen Bruel, Senior Analyst in the Market Structure & Technology group at Coalition Greenwich. Today,

The Coalition Greenwich report, Corporate FX Trading—The Value of Relationships and Execution Quality compares practices between corporates and asset managers, discussing how the shift to electronic trading and digital innovation is transforming corporate FX trading. “In an age of digital innovation companies who are not giving FX the attention it deserves could be leaving real benefits and money on the table,” says the report’s co-author Stephen Bruel, Senior Analyst in the Market Structure & Technology group at Coalition Greenwich. Today,

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