Back to the Future: Best Execution Rears its Head as FCA and ESMA Review Policies
February 11, 2025
It’s not just smells and memories that can transport people back in time; the phrase “best execution” is surely one… Read More »
It’s not just smells and memories that can transport people back in time; the phrase “best execution” is surely one… Read More »
Taking a look at the most read columns of the year is an instructive process and highlights the importance –… Read More »
Have we become too obsessed with best execution? More pertinently, are we even looking in the right direction when judging… Read More »
State Street is rolling out the next development in its transformation of GlobalLink Digital with the integration of a new… Read More »
A new study from Coalition Greenwich says corporate treasuries are not paying enough attention to their FX activities, and could… Read More »
The pre-hedging Spotlight Review from the FMSB merely serves to highlight, in my view, just how difficult, and potentially risky,… Read More »
Much noise has been made about the impending shift to T+1 settlement in North American securities, but with one week… Read More »
The execution cost at the month-end Fix is well-documented, but in the latest Unfiltered interview, Colin Lambert talks to Jamie… Read More »
Analysis of the 12 month-end fixes in 2023 suggests that market impact was slightly reduced from the 12 months previously,… Read More »
In the latest in the Unfiltered video series, Colin Lambert talks to Loop FX CEO Blair Hawthorne about the challenges… Read More »
The latest changes announced by EBS to its primary FX trading venue are interesting, because they could be viewed as… Read More »
Reading the ESMA review on pre-hedging a couple of thoughts came to me on two of my favourite subjects –… Read More »
With The Full FX View As with so many issues in foreign exchange, indeed in financial markets generally, the issue… Read More »
Historically, there has always been an imbalance in fortunes in FX markets between market makers and takers, and the pendulum… Read More »
Quantitative digital asset trading firm GTS Digital has partnered with technology provider Wyden and decision intelligence provider Ideal, to optimize… Read More »
The use of market or price limits when using an execution algorithm became more popular in recent years thanks to… Read More »
Long-term readers will be happy to hear that after a prolonged spell away, it’s time for me to take on… Read More »
With Refinitiv Benchmarks completing its consultation over the future of the WM Fix, and Raidne releasing a new service that… Read More »
In response to Refinitiv launching a consultation programme over the future of its WM FX Benchmark Fix, Raidne – the… Read More »
Siemens Group has signed an agreement with Cürex to take the latter’s pre‐ and post‐trade data analytics through its Cipher… Read More »
Refinitiv Benchmarks is to be applauded for releasing a public survey on possible reform of the WMR Benchmark Fix, for… Read More »
The UK’s Investment Association (IA) has published a briefing paper reinforcing its call from 2020 for reform in how FX… Read More »
After a quiet year-end in terms of potential market impact cost at the London 4pm Fix, there was a return… Read More »
The latest analysis of “what happened at the month-end Fix” places the potential cost of a shorter FX fixing window… Read More »
As a hot topic over the past three years, data has had a good run – people see it as… Read More »
RBC Investor & Treasury Services has tapped State Street’s BestX for the launch of a new transaction cost analysis (TCA)… Read More »
Outsourcing has been a big topic in FX markets for many years, although over that period the conversation has taken… Read More »
Sometimes genius comes from the most unexpected direction. The sharp eyed amongst you will note this column has a new… Read More »
There is an assumption that regulators are uniformly in favour of total transparency in markets – and this is often… Read More »
