Utility Dark Pools Start to Take Off

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Three dark pools set up as industry utilities offering broker-dealers and their customers low-cost executions are attracting more flow from member firms-and have the executions to prove it.
LeveL and Block Interest Discovery Service, two crossing systems launched this year [...]

Buy-Side Moves To Custom Algos

Institutional Investor – Article
The buy-side’ use of algorithms is changing as more brokers are embracing customized services and solutions that allow more control over different electronic trading components, new research from the TABB Group suggests. The research firm estimates that before the end of 2008, at least 30% of all algo flow will be sent [...]

Advent Software > The Buyside and the Three Phase Evolution of Electronic Trading

Advent Software > The Buyside and the Three Phase Evolution of Electronic Trading
Key learnings:
* Better understanding of the buyside framework and its changes
* Gain a shared vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world
* Learn how the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers