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Which form of social media do you check or use during the trading day?
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4%
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54%
- None. Compliance prohibits or restricts the use of social media on the desk
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Nomura Seeks Closer Integration With Instinet
Tokyo-based Nomura Group is more tightly integrating its Instinet subsidiary into the brokerage giant, and the company plans to rebrand its entire Japanese electronic trading platform as Instinet.
New Canadian ‘Trade-At’ Rule Gets Mixed Reviews
Canadian regulators have passed new rules governing dark pools in Canada, eliciting mixed responses from market participants, with no discernible consensus from either the buyside or sellside, or from the dark pools themselves.
AX Launches Scheduled Auctions
In a twist on its call-auction process, electronic venue AX Trading Network is offering the ability to schedule an auction in advance, giving more parties a chance to participate, and hopefully to provide more liquidity.
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Hitting the TCA Sweet Spot
The cry from the buyside has been that there are too many brokers pitching products that are too similar, particularly agency shops that offer standard execution and check-the-box research. But given the buyside's increased hunger for more analysis of trades, one agency broker might have found itself in a sweet spot. Abel/Noser offers respected trade-cost
High-Touch, Research Up In Survey
High-touch and research-driven trades rose last year, but the Street also felt the pain of a 12 percent drop in commissions, according to a recent Greenwich Associates study of the buyside.
The Right Mix
Once equity trading went electronic, the smart money knew it was only a matter of time before machines began making decisions that were once the domain of the trader. For the buyside, it has always been essential to know which broker to choose, based on past performance and a sellside firm's expertise. Today, the same rules apply-except that man's best friend on the buyside isn't the person on the other end of the phone or IM. It's becoming more and more the computer on the desk.
More Firms, More CSAs
The popularity of commission-sharing arrangements continues to grow among institutional money managers looking to pay for research. Today about three-quarters of long-only shops are using CSAs, and that percentage is expected to grow in 2011, according to a recent study by TABB Group.
New Horizons At Munder
Dennis Fox, head trader at Munder Capital Management of Birmingham, Mich., is in the midst of integrating his firm's trading system with its recent acquisition: Integrity Asset Management of Rocky River, Ohio.
TradingScreen Adds BECS and Clients
Looking to juice its trade-cost analysis technology and client list, TradingScreen acquired Citi's multi-broker, post-trade TCA product BECS for an undisclosed price.
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