Eurex Exchange is offering new research tools via its website enabling interested investors to obtain a comprehensive insight into the world of analysis, valuation and trading of volatility derivatives.
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“Feeding the Future”, an agricultural innovation report supported by the Technology Strategy Board, sets outs Britain's future food production challenges up to 2030.
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By James Williams – With dark pools appearing a lot more in media headlines this year, understanding some of the benefits, and risks, for institutions who have yet to fully engage with them, is vital.
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BI-SAM, a provider of data management, performance, attribution, risk, composites and reporting solutions for the global asset management industry, is expanding operations in London and moving to a new location.
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The decision for Société Générale to launch a dark pool trading platform, AlphaY, in April 2012 arose from a desire to access liquidity in a safe environment that the firm felt was not readily available externally.
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Under current MiFID regulation, pre-trade transparency waivers are used to allow non-displayed trading venues to forego the need to publish bids and offers prior to execution. With average trade size falling on these venues, often referred to as dark pools, there is a feeling among regulators and indeed exchanges, that these venues are having a negative impact on price discovery and liquidity.
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By James Williams – Dark pools exist in a variety of forms to serve a variety of clients. In the US they are referred to as an alternative trading system (ATS). In Europe they include multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) – alternative trading venues that sprang out of MiFID regulation in 2007 – broker-owned pools called Broker Crossing Networks (BCNs) or “internalisers”. Not to mention independent dark pool operators like Liquidnet that connect buy-side to buy-side institutions.
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With dark pools appearing a lot more in media headlines this year, understanding the benefits, and risks, for institutions who have yet to fully engage with them, is vital
As 2013 begins, everything's up for grabs in the alternative fund world. With relocation a hot topic, which jurisdictions are luring fund managers and service providers?
