In our article published last year, ‘Keeping Pace with Pairs’, we noted the continued popularity of pairs trading amongst investment managers and explored TORA’s pairs trading functionality in some depth. Market Volatility…
Why New Launch Hedge Funds Need to Choose Technology Wisely
In 2021, the total capital invested in hedge funds grew to over $4 trillion, a 10% rise on the previous year. Despite the changing economic backdrop in 2022, with the S&P 500…
Why Automating Post-Trade Workflow is Essential for Buy Side Firms
For hedge funds and other buy side firms, post-trade workflows can be somewhat labour intensive. Processes such as allocations, matching trades with counterparties, reconciling commissions and fees, and generating an accurate shadow…
Accessing FX Liquidity in a Multi-Asset Environment
Buy side firms wishing to access FX liquidity in today’s markets face a number of challenges. This is particularly true if they are managing a multi-asset fund, running strategies that include an…
Bridging the Gap Between OEMS and Outsourced Trading
In recent years, across multiple industries, there has been a general trend towards outsourcing. The financial markets industry is no different, as is evidenced by the growth of ‘as-a-service’ offerings from technology…
Most financial institutions today are heavily reliant on their systems, vendors and technology partners to ensure the efficient running of their businesses. The level of support they receive from those vendors and…
API’s and Systematic Trading. Are your OEMS and PMS platforms delivering?
Systematic trading has long been a feature of the financial markets. Even in the days before computers arrived on the scene, early systematic traders would use rule-based systems designed to remove human…
EBS & TORA, a Strategic Relationship for Accessing FX Liquidity
It’s been a few months since TORA and EBS announced their collaboration to link EBS’s FX liquidity with TORA’s multi-asset OEMS platform. Market participants now have the ability to view prices for…
Since equity pairs trading was first introduced to the market in the 1980s, it has become immensely popular amongst investment managers, and has evolved from its original incarnation of matching a long…
Why IBOR functionality within your OEMS & PMS is imperative for your organization. Investment firms today increasingly require an Investment Book of Record (IBOR), to provide accurate, timely, comprehensive and consolidated access…
