Connecting the dots...

This series is about intellectual transparency – being open and sharing our strategic and managerial philosophy so that clients and partners can deeply understand what we are doing and what drives us. This series will set out not just our forecasts for our businesses, but our “points of view” on how to shape the evolution of our markets to our and our clients’ advantage.

Dr Peter T. Golder, Joël L. Glässer & Usman Khan — 13 December 2021

Crypto Alpha - Impact of Market Infrastructure on Alpha Generation

In this article, we look at the Cryptocurrency [CC] market structure in more detail and highlight the differences between the traditional financial market. We assess how the performance of trading algorithms differs between Crypto ‘exchanges’. We base this assessment on four exchanges and three common trend following strategies.

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Dr Peter T. Golder & Professor Gordon Hewitt — 25 November 2021

A New Intellectual Framework - Connecting the Invisible Dots

This paper aims to set out some relevant ideas for the creation and establishment of a successful Financial DIGITAL MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE [DMI] provider. This paper and others in the "connecting the dots…" series will often refer to "New Game" forms of competition, and "Game Changing" aspects of competitive activity.

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Dr Peter T. Golder & Natalie Salemink — 15 November 2021

DEFI - Ready 4 Prime Time? An institutional perspective

DECENTRALIZED FINANCE [DEFI] is with us and we postulate it is here to stay – in fact, we believe growth in DEFI will be significant over the coming years.

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Dr Peter T. Golder — 04 November 2021

Digital Financial Market Infrastructure - Considerations 4 the Future

The current Financial Market Infrastructure [FMI] industry is defined by a handful of companies that control powerful and trusted centralized platforms. However, market structure is changing — its main characters and structure will likely look quite different a decade from now.

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