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September 2, 2020

The Seventh Wave: What Next in Electronic Trading Innovation?

According to surfing folklore, the seventh wave is the largest of the set. This is perhaps a fitting metaphor for…

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June 25, 2020

Competing for Order Flow—The Differentiation Dilemma

The economics of providing sell-side execution services have become increasingly challenging since the financial crisis of 2008. High costs and…

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June 4, 2020

Trading Platform Strategy for a Faster Changing World

Rapid Addition CEO Mike Powell explores how the traditional barriers to platform modernisation can and need to be broken down…

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May 6, 2020

Rethinking ‘Buy or Build’

Best Execution speaks to Rapid Addition CEO, Mike Powell about market trends, the Buy or Build debate and the launch…

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March 9, 2020

White Label Trading Solutions: How Regional Brokers and Global Banks Benefit from Market Partnerships

Europe’s institutional sell-side firms have had a tough time in recent years. As well as the costly overhead of implementing…

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December 11, 2019

The Evolving Role of Systematic Internalisation Under MiFID II

The MiFID II Challenge and Systematic Internalisation It’s easy, and perhaps convenient, to forget the mad scramble to be ready…

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November 20, 2019

Optimising Sell-Side Client Onboarding: Reducing Costs & Time-to-Trade

The Growing Challenges of Sell-Side Client Onboarding Regulatory scrutiny of buy-side broker selection and best-execution benchmarking, together with research unbundling…

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October 17, 2019

Living with Giants—Tough Times for the Institutional Sell-side Market

The institutional sell-side market has had a tough time over recent years. Concerns over economic outlook, shrinking commissions and rising…

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October 7, 2019

Fluid Dynamics—The Evolving Shape of European Market Liquidity

Nearly 2 years after the implementation of MiFID II, the equity market landscape is now taking shape. What was initially…

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September 24, 2019

Nordic Trading—Market Insight a Competitive Advantage

Rapid Addition was in Stockholm last week for the FIX Trading Community’s Nordic Trading Briefing 2019 event. A strong turn…

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November 14, 2018

Why Do Banks Continue to Build Non-differentiating Components?

What could Investment Banks learn from Apple’s approach to the supply chain? How can they use the same approach to…

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October 2, 2018

Reduced Latency is Winning the War Against Stale Prices

‘FIX engine platform vendors must continuously improve performance and reduce latency if they are to keep meeting clients’ demands, says…