It is interesting that, following Paul Blank’s post on May 29th suggesting that single-dealer platforms are fighting back against SEFs, the audience at yesterday’s Waters webcast seemed to agree.
Yesterday (June 7 2011) Waters hosted an audio webcast entitled, “Regulation and OTC e-Commerce: Future-proofing your systems”. Sponsored by Caplin Systems, and hosted by Rob Daly, editor of Waters’ publication Sell-Side Technology, the panel for the webcast included Stéphane Malrait of Société Generale, David Bullen of Citi and Nick Green of Crédit Agricole.
The first audience participation question was, “Do you see a direct electronic channel to market being 1) more or 2) less important in this new regulatory environment?”
82% of the audience decided that in the new regulatory environment a direct electronic channel to market will be MORE important than it is now.
This is clearly good news for those of us engaged in building electronic channels to market for broker/dealers.
For those who missed it, an on-demand recording of the full audio webcast will be available online in a week or so. As soon as it’s available I’ll post the link.
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