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A ‘dark pool of liquidity’ might sound like a Texan oilman’s dream of striking it rich while drilling but in the financial services sector it refers to undisclosed trades. Neil Ainger looks at the rising popularity of these hidden pools in the US and wonders if they are set to take off in Europe after the arrival of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) last year and of various new execution venues that offer ‘dark’ services

Are traders moving to the dark side, shying away from the light of regulated markets like vampires avoiding the sun? [Read More]

 
FX market bones up on its maths Why algorithmic trading is coming to the Foreign Exchange market
Latent challenge As speeds increase the choices facing financial institutions about whether to specify copper or fibre cabling systems are becoming increasingly complex
Q&A: UK Faster Payments Scheme FST talks to Martin Wilson at the infrastructure provider VocaLink about the UKFPS project and its implications
Constant communication
Are Next Generation Networks, which can run voice or data traffic and provide extra bandwidth, the wave of
the future?
Virtualised agents Many
FS firms have numerous contact centres operating around the world using various technologies but a virtualised desktop may be able to unify them
Born to roam free
Is mobile technology advanced enough yet to allow substantial numbers of financial services employees to truly roam free?
FST Datacentre Excellence III conference: A full report from the DCEIII event held at the London Stock Exchange, looking at how to get the best from your facility
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