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Closed loop system…

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I’m reading a whitepaper on OTC markets from the interdealer broker ICAP… lots to comment upon…
ICAP is the world’s largest and most powerful broker’s broker… headquartered in London they deal in FX, fixed income, derivative, commodity, and money markets. Their operations span all currencies and timezones.
ICAP serves as the central hub for massive global flows [...]

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Buy side automation…

Thursday, September 11, 2008

I always believed that FIX, the standard for electronic trading of securities, had the flexibility and power to reorder the fixed income markets.
I’ve thought that FIX had the capacity to unify and standardize markets that were entirely dominated by the dealers…
Well… you believe and believe… and faith does sustain one… but real signals of change are [...]

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