- 1.0 What Investment Banks & Non-bank Brokers Need to Run their Trading Business
- 1.1 The Need for Differentiation & Efficiency: Remaining Relevant in a Competitive and Capital-constrained Environment
- 1.2 The Need for Agility: Reconfiguring the Business at Will
- 1.3 The Need for Velocity: Unshackling Change
- 2.0 Fit-for-the-Future Technology
- 2.1 Buy & Build Modularity: The Best of Both Approaches
- 2.2 Asset Class Agnosticism: Trading Infrastructure that Works for All or Most Asset Classes
- 2.3 Automation of Trading Activities
- 3.0 Automation-as-a-Service
- 3.1 The Ideal, Non-functional Attributes of a Cross-asset E-trading Vendor Solution
- 3.2 Analytics-based Trading: Realising the Benefits
- 3.3 Front-to-Back Operational Coverage: Building Holistically to Do More with Less
- 3.4 The Platform Concept: Solutions that Anticipate & Resolve Real-world Problems
- 4.0 Appendices
- 4.1 Table of Figures
The Philosophy Underpinning Technology Vendor Cross-asset E-trading Solutions
This white paper report explores the strategic, commercial thinking that GreySpark believes buyside firm, non-bank brokerage and sellside institution trading businesses must undertake in 2021 before making buy versus build decisions regarding how to improve the functional capability and, eventually, applicability of the franchise’s trading technology outlay to its existing and future prospective client base.