In pursuit of a moving target

With new regulation putting a strain on banks` ability to provide block liquidity, Fabien Oreve, global head of trading at Candriam Investors Group (and TradeTech panellist), discuss how the buy-side should adapt its trading strategies, answering the following questions:

• What are your biggest liquidity challenges and how have they evolved in recent years?
• Are lower volumes/lower liquidity levels a permanent part of the European trading environment now and if so how should the buy-side respond?
• What changes have you made internally to improve efficient in the quest for liquidity?
• How does technology and transaction cost analyses (CTA) come into play?
• How has the prevailing liquidity environment shaped your requirements of brokers?
• What impact might incoming regulations have on the search for liquidity?