By
Kendall Kim, Kendall Kim consults as a Business Analyst and lives in Greenwich, CT. He has consulted and worked for firms such as UBS Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs.
Description
Electronic and algorithmic trading has become part of a mainstream response to buy-side traders’ need to move large blocks of shares with
minimum market impact in today’s complex institutional trading environment. This book illustrates an overview of key providers in the
marketplace. With electronic trading platforms becoming increasingly sophisticated, more cost effective measures handling larger order
flow is becoming a reality. The higher reliance on electronic trading has had profound implications for vendors and users of information
and trading products. Broker dealers providing solutions through their products are facing changes in their business models such as:
relationships with sellside customers, relationships with buyside customers, the importance of broker neutrality, the role of direct
market access, and the relationship with prime brokers.
Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Technology: The Complete Guide is the ultimate
guide to managers, institutional investors, broker dealers, and software vendors to better understand innovative technologies that can
cut transaction costs, eliminate human error, boost trading efficiency and supplement productivity. As economic and regulatory pressures
are driving financial institutions to seek efficiency gains by improving the quality of software systems, firms are devoting increasing
amounts of financial and human capital to maintaining their competitive edge. This book is written to aid the management and development
of IT systems for financial institutions. Although the book focuses on the securities industry, its solution framework can be applied
to satisfy complex automation requirements within very different sectors of financial services – from payments and cash management, to
insurance and securities.
Electronic and Algorithmic Trading: The Complete Guide is geared toward all levels of technology, investment
management and the financial service professionals responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge technology. It outlines
a complete framework for successfully building a software system that provides the functionalities required by the business model. It
is revolutionary as the first guide to cover everything from the technologies to how to evaluate tools to best practices for IT management.
Audience:
Primary audience: CEOs, CTOs, IT professionals, investment managers as well as traders in the financial industry who desire to understand
the evolving landscape of trade technology. The objective of this book is to help readers gain a competitive advantage for best price
execution, understand inhouse techonology solutions or software vendor products, and to inform readers regarding the effects of regulatory
intervention.
