The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published observations on good and poor liquidity risk management practices from its multi-firm review of wholesale trading (sell-side) firms in scope of ...

October’s $19B liquidation exposed why crypto volume fails under stress and why order book depth defines real execution.

Making markets in spot FX is one of the few fixed-income trading activities that will survive the Dodd-Frank era, and investment banks are widely known to be investing resources in growing their FX ...

With chains multiplying and liquidity spreading thin, 1inch’s Aqua aims to make trading across networks faster, cheaper, and ...

Liquidity is what makes the crypto market actually work. When liquidity is low, trades become harder to complete, prices can ...

This article was written by Bloomberg Intelligence Market Structure Research Strategist Nicholas Phillips. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. With multiple execution mechanisms in a European ...

Since the first U.S. ETFs came to market in the 1990s, promoters extolled the idea of their intraday liquidity and pricing. “You can trade ETFs just like stocks!,” they cried. While generally true, ...

FLASH FRIDAY is a weekly content series looking at the past, present and future of capital markets trading and technology. FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company. One of the most ...

Bitcoin and altcoin prices have pushed higher, but Glassnode data shows spot trading activity has dropped to its weakest levels since late 2023.

The number and size of open-end funds investing in illiquid assets have grown dramatically in recent years. For example, in 2016, the open-end Blackstone Real Estate BREIX was founded. By Sept. 30, ...

Understand the market-maker spread as the price gap between buying and selling offers by market makers, and how it compensates for market-making risks.