K&KGC bring the buy-side together to, among other topics, share best practice to resolve the following key challenges for success:
Liquidity - with increasing free competition between pools of liquidity, globalisation and electronification of trading new securities instruments, traders need to tackle new challenges with fragmentation, lacking visibility and lack of sufficient technologies. Commis
sions - with dramatic regulatory changes impacting the sell-side capabilities the buy-side need to take a more active role deciding who are the right sell-side partners, what services they pay for, when and how. Regulations - regulators are globally striving to define and apply universal principles that should underpin and govern the activities of all financial markets. This ongoing process is being complicated by lacking hard facts and other factions of the market lobbying strongly for their interests.
1) The buy-side trader´s day-to-day activities are changing with increased burden of administration and being kept up to date about the ongoing regulatory changes.
2) The buy-side trading community should play a more important role in the regulators decision process. K&KGC is filtering and sharing critical regulatory proposals with the buy-side and liaising directly with the industry associations and other public entities in order to share the buy-side trader´s view on such proposals. The role of the trading desk – the buy-side trading desk need to interact with portfolio managers, CIO, compliance teams, IT departments etc. The Heads of Trading are increasingly accountable for implementing the metrics and right processes in order to win. Best ex*****on – best ex*****on is an art form with a variety of choice between the right partnerships, algorithms and selecting the right pro-active TCA tools.
