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'Kemp-Little’s commitment and dedication to all aspects of this brief, but complex engagement involving over a dozen financial services firms and their providers have been most appreciated'
(CEO, JWG-IT Group Limited - The Think Tank for EU driven IT change in FS)

financial services - Trading and technology

Trading services are developing rapidly and against a financial and economic background that is unprecedented. In today’s climate, we have a genuine understanding of the dynamic of the market, what is driving change and the value chain, including:

  • the range of market participants:
    • banks, hedge funds and other broker/dealers and intermediaries on the sell side
    • asset manager and other institutions on the buy side
    • exchanges, platform and index providers and
    • technology providers;
  • how technology is driving:
    • ever lower latency
    • black box (automatic algorithmic) trading and
    • direct market access;
  • how regulation is a second key driver of change through:
    • MiFID’s EU-wide ‘best execution’ and platform liberalisation rules and
    • current/anticipated regulatory response to the financial crisis;
  • and the impact place for market participants of these technology and regulatory changes in an increasingly global market at each level of the value chain:
    • issuing equities, bonds and other securities and creating other contracts, financial instruments and derivatives of them
    • trading services – exchange (on and off book), MTF platform, OTC and internalised trading
    • clearing, settlement, custodian and other post-trade services and
    • market data and supporting IT and network services

 

 

Genuine market expertise across our practice areas

Our market understanding and technology focus underpin our expertise in the financial services sector across all our practice areas:

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