Brokers are stepping up development of more sophisticated electronic tools for options trading. Hedge funds and professional traders using sophisticated strategies are the main beneficiaries. "The ...

Disclosure is the rage in financial markets regulation and the latest set of proposals relate to order handling rules. Regulators are seeking to boost transparency into the order routing practices of ...

With a glut of trading venues arriving on the European equity trading landscape, access to an effective smart order router (SOR) to navigate between them is now crucial for buy-side traders in their ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--smartTrade Technologies announces that its cross-asset Smart Order Router (SOR) has been awarded Best Smart Order Routing System by Intelligent Trading Technology Awards ...

With this fragmentation of liquidity, the European markets may find themselves with more MTFs than firms that can smart order route flow to them. Richard Balarkas, CEO Instinet Europe estimates that ...

To execute orders quickly, and help customers stay in the black, Kamath turned to smart order routing (SOR) technology. SOR would help the company’s trading engines to systematically choose the ...

Smart order routing is becoming a more important tool with the credit crunch, according to Honoré. "You have increased volatility and people are having to optimize their execution quality," he says.