The Profitability Engine Behind Capital Markets
Even as banks have largely recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, the business environment has been irrevocably changed. Squeezed by persistent and intensifying regulatory pressures, the significant investment necessary to navigate complex and shifting market structure, and the weight of inflexible legacy systems, trading desks are struggling to provide adequate profits. To improve return on equity, capital markets participants need to aggressively restructure their trading businesses, automate processes, and leverage technology to slash costs and empower their traders. Leading financial firms finally are investing to modernize legacy infrastructure and transform the enterprise into an agile business powered by data and technology. This TabbFORUM editorial Spotlight, sponsored by Broadridge, takes an in-depth look at current profitability challenges and how new solutions and business models, including mutualization, are helping the industry improve efficiencies, reduce risk and reinvigorate profitability in critical areas such as post-trade processing and trade expense management.
US Futures Volume on Target for Record Year
Tom Tom, TABB Group31 Aug 2016
Expected volatility in the second half of 2016 resulting from anticipated interest rate increases and the US presidential election will drive US futures trading volume to a record 3.6 billion...


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News
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Bank job cuts on cards as the grim slowdown continues
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HSBC Banking Vice Chairman Spencer Lake Leaves Firm After Decade
('Bloomberg')
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Deutsche CEO says no asset management sale as seeks to rally staff
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Interdealer brokers consolidate to survive
('Risk.net)($')


Growing Self-Clearing Trend Could Threaten FCMs
Tom Tom, TABB Group,Tom Tom, TABB GroupExchanges and clearing houses continue to broaden their services as the futures commission merchant (FCM) community looks to return to profitability. The CME Group is the latest to propose a...
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Additional Resources
- Do Tweet Sentiments Still Predict the Stock Market?
Johns Hopkins University, Jim Kyung-Soo Liew and Tamás Budavári
- Quarterly Hedge Fund Tracker – Q2 2016
S&P Global Market Intelligence
- The Latency Difference between Depth of Book and BBO Feeds
(Michael Lehr, MayStreet)
