Brokerage

According to an analysis by Goldman Sachs, cash equities share volume will drop 16 percent in 2009 from last year.

In this article first published in Traders Magazine's sister publication Global Trading, guest author Michael Mollemans, Head of Sales Trading Asia-Pacific, Pavilion Global Markets discusses best execution and looks at future trends.

Nathalie Texier-Guillot is head of U.S. equity derivatives structured sales at Citigroup Global Markets. She recently sat down with Traders Magazine to discuss the state of play in over-the-counter equities derivatives. We offer some excerpts in two parts.

RBC Capital Markets' electronic trading group is taking a page out of the high-frequency traders' playbook.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut about two dozen U.S. equities traders and sales staff after that unit’s revenue declined last year, according to two people with knowledge of the reductions.

AFX webinar panelists including Barbara Novick and Richard Sandor discussed the transition away from the long-used benchmark.

Real-time solution provides a single interface for ETF order taking and negotiating ETF baskets.

The editors of Traders Magazine continue to look back at the 10 trends and stories that shook the trading world. In a game-changing move, this year the buyside has opened its own dark pool, IEX. This new venue highlighted the buyside's desire to supersede the brokers and take trading into its own hands.

Block trading venue Liquidnet has hired Rob Laible as its new head of the Global Performance Team, while Hedge Fund Cares promotes two as its new regional co-heads in the New York metropolitan area.

As many cash-flush companies look to buy back their own stock, agency-only brokerage Cheevers & Co. is expanding into corporate buybacks, bringing in a new trader who specializes in the space.