February 4, 2008 Issue Abstract

 

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The Electronic Marketplace: OMSs and EMSs are at the Center of Battle Lines In The Next Wave of Market Structure Innovation. The use of execution management systems is increasing as market participants turn more often to dark liquidity and block trading venues, in turn driving EMSs to integrate more seamlessly with order management (OMSs) and accelerate their speed of operations.

 

Industry Alert: Debt Market Crisis Teaches Europe Old Lessons Anew. Fixed-income markets in Europe saw significant changes in the months leading up to the global credit crunch of summer 2007, according to research by consultancy Greenwich Associates and statistics compiled by reporting services provider Xtrakter.

 

Spotlight: Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations and co-founder of consultancy Efficient Frontiers LLC. A perspective on the cross-border and cross-Atlantic electronic trading environments in the US and Europe, and how regulatory changes will affect them.

 

Securities Trading Innovation: Multi-Tasking Marks Fidessa LatentZero Capstone Suite. Nicholas Applegate Capital Management finds it can increase the rules it tracks in its investment management operations without losing performance by using Fidessa LatentZero’s Sentinel compliance system.

 

On The Exchanges: NYSE Euronext Makes Strategic Gains With Amex, Wombat. NYSE Euronext continues to make acquisitions that can shift where its transactions are conducted and how it handles data.

 

The News Network: BATS Reaches 1 Billion Daily Share Volume Milestone; NYSE MatchPoint Links Up With Mixit and Portware; Pure Trading Completes Coverage of All Listed Securities.

 

   
     

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