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Print this page   “Utility is success,” Thomas Edison once claimed, arguing he wasn’t motivated to invent things that didn’t sell well: if no-one used them, what was the point? Firms with competing visions of a more robust post-trade architecture for futures and options might bear this in mind. Market participants think standardizing trade allocations could prevent a repeat of the chaos that resulted from the thousands of trade breaks witnessed during last year’s Covid vo...

Risk.net Buy-side use of average pricing contributed to rash of failed trades and give-ups last March Print this page   Everyone was blaming everybody else. In March 2020, a massive spike in volumes led to chaos in the futures markets, with delays and trade breaks pitting banks and brokers against exchanges and clearers – and pretty much everyone against post-trade vendors – in claim and counterclaim. At the time, the only camp to largely escape attention was asset managers. Bu...