The best execution requirement serves client’s interests in an equitable trading environment, mitigating the advantage of sellside market information. Highlighting buyside concerns with best price and sellside interest in liquidity and low latency, this report establishes that technology providers bridge these matters through execution management and benchmarking solutions.
Such technology is continuously advancing, offering new solutions accompanied by an increased service orientation of providers. This report explores responses to regulatory calls for best execution as APAC begins to fall in line with EU and US policies.
This report addresses a number of key questions related to buyside interests in: execution performance related to information and services; how the sellside respond to best execution requirements; the technology available to support implementation of best execution; and how the market is responding to calls by global regulators for best execution requirements.
Methodology
The hands-on industry experience of GreySpark consultants, coupled with buyside, sellside and technology provider face-to-face interviews, underpins this research. Industry survey data and a review of technology providers with and without transaction cost analysis (TCA) offerings further our analysis.
