--- title: "Outlook 2019: Chris Hollands, TradingScreen" description: The confluence of new regulations and changing market structure will drive fintech investment. image: https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/active-investing-poised-for-rebound-May-12-2022-09-10-30-09-AM.jpg --- ![websites-group](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/new-MMG-01.svg) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-new-marketsmedia-logo.svg)](https://www.marketsmedia.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-traders-redlogo.svg)](https://www.tradersmagazine.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-bestexe-logo.svg)](https://www.bestexecution.net/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-fidesk-logo.svg)](https://www.fixglobal.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-fixglobal-new-logo.svg)](https://www.fixglobal.com/) - [*Facebook*](https://www.facebook.com/MarketsMedia/) - [*Twitter*](https://twitter.com/marketsmedia) - [*Linkedin*](https://www.linkedin.com/company/markets-media-llc) - [Newsletter](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/outlook-2019-chris-holland-tradingscreen#popup-newsletter) #### Want the latest news on securities markets -- FREE? 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The wave of consolidation brings with it some upheaval and potential switches of strategic focus and, in the EMS world specifically, puts an added premium on independence and broker neutrality. **Do you expect investments in fintech to rise, plateau, or trail off in 2019?** We fully expect the investments trend in fintech to continue to increase.  The demand for better analytics to inform each stage of the trading lifecycle on a cross-asset class basis coupled with the need to integrate them more tightly into the trading workflow will continue to be key drivers. The ability of proven and established technology providers to partner with new entrants will equally be a facilitator of the adoption of these fintech solutions. Also, factors such as consolidation on the buy-side trading desk, the spread of the best execution imperative into the newly electronifying asset classes and the increasing demand from the larger, geographically dispersed asset managers for standalone, best-of-breed EMS solutions to overlay and to aggregate disparate OMSs, will continue to drive this investment. **Will Wall Street return to focusing on innovation to drive alpha in the new year?** Yes, 2018 was very much a year of regulatory compliance, but we do expect a renewed focus on innovation to drive alpha in 2019 and beyond. The growing appetite for richer analytics to inform the investment and trading process, as mentioned above, and the need for increased automation and the interrelationship between the two, will be at the heart of this innovation. Best execution is here to stay and is extending itself into a broader set of asset classes, which when married to the consolidation of buy-side trading desks is forcing them to become more productive with fewer resources while being able to demonstrate alpha.  This necessitates the adoption of more genuinely multi-asset class execution tools that offer more sophisticated automation capabilities powered by more widely available data and analytics. 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