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Piper has advised independent broker Towergate Partnership on the GBP276m acquisition of Open GI International from Montague Private Equity, less than two years after the original manageme
As the role of hedge funds in the foreign exchange market continues to grow, algorithmic trading and technology are shaping the future of the market, according to a white paper issued by FXall, the
Latency: A measure of delay.
In a market where speed is of the essence, the spotlight falls on the issue of latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a deal done, cancel an order or know what is happening in the market.
Given its importance in today’s trading environment, it will be important to arrive at an industry definition of latency measurement, to ensure that trading venues, systems and infrastructure are all judged by a common standard.
Latency is a statistical function that can be impacted by:
Market participants’ systems and architecture
The architecture and construction of the
It is clear from conversations with a broad range of market participants that inherent latency is a problem for active market participants on current FX trading systems.
Network latency is the time needed to effect a communication between two network nodes.
Much has been made of dark pools of liquidity in the equity market at present. These are financial markets not available or visible to the general public – essentially ‘non-displayed’ liquidity.
The e-FX market has evolved rapidly to meet the changing needs of an ever more diverse group of market participants.
The trend in the FX market as with other asset classes has been towards independent platforms that offer a level playing field with increased transparency to market participants who are becoming ever more sophisticated, and as a result increasingly discriminating.
Today’s e-FX users want to participate in a market with natural interest distributed across a diverse group of participants where they can be confident that everyone is playing by the same rules. As a result, it is important that there
Accelor is the next-generation foreign exchange ECN for all market participants, developed to meet the needs of the most demanding institutional market participants.
A group of international banks are seeking to buy a stake of up to 20 per cent in embattled US securities firm Bear Stearns, with HSBC, Barclays, Bank of America, Wachovia, Santander and U
The growth of the global hedge fund industry over the past decade to a size variously estimated at between USD1.7trn and USD2.5trn has helped Dublin to become the world’s biggest centre for hedge f
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