Supporting the campaign for
shorter market
trading hours
led by The Investment Association and AFME
Here at the forefront of the Buy-side Trading Community (BTC), we pride ourselves on focussing our
buy-side trading research on the key themes that the buy side tell us are most important to them.
We are the only buy-side trading consultancy firm to use the research in our regional Alpha Trader
Forums (ATF) across London, Paris, Frankfurt and Stockholm. This puts us in a unique position to be
a voice on behalf of our buy-side trading community.
The campaign for shorter trading hours
that circulated the media started with
a joint letter from the Investment
Association (IA) and Association for
Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)
to the London Stock Exchange in
November 2019 calling to shorten
European equity market hours from
8am - 4.30pm, to 9am - 4pm GMT
(9am - 5.30pm, to 10am - 5pm CET).
The letter referenced the results of our
research survey conducted at all of
our regional Alpha Trader Forums in
2019 covering 129 buy-side senior and
heads of trading. This showed almost
half of the participants surveyed
wanted shorter trading hours.
We will continue to report back the
messages and outcomes of all of
our research to all buy-side trading
members so do join in with us to make
the BTC even bigger and better!
If you missed the full article you can
find it here:
www.buysideintel.com/shorter-
exchange-trading-hours
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