Whitepapers & Reports

Next Generation Trading: How AI and ML will empower the trades of the future - [2018 Benchmarking Report]

'Tipping points’ occur in all technological evolutions, the point at which advancements in technology reach a wide enough group of users at the very time it is truly needed. In financial services, market complexity, compressed client commission pools, and intensifying regulation have converged with a dramatic expansion of available technological capabilities, such as big data, machine learning, and AI.In Q3 of 2018 WBR Insights surveyed 100 Global Heads of Trading from buy-side firms across the USA to find out more about the challenges# they’re facing and the innovative solutions being brought to the table.

Maintaining Competitiveness

In Q3 of 2017 WBR Digital & Equities Leaders Summit surveyed 100 Equity Traders based in North America. The research Prioritized buy-side firms, including asset management firms, hedge funds and pension funds. Respondents to the survey were global Heads of Trading, global Heads of Equities, Lead Traders or others of an equal standing. The survey was conducted by appointment over the telephone. The results were compiled and anonymized and presented here with analysis and commentary from the Equities Leaders Summit community.