Opinion
Hippies, Flying Pigs and Speed
After 28 Technology Management Conferences and Exhibits hosted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma), you'd think that they would start blurring together. This year's event at the Hilton New York in Midtown Manhattan,…
That Time of Year
If it's June, it means that the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Assoc-iation's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and Exhibition is upon us. For three days this week, financial technologists will meet, mingle and schmooze with…
Event Processing Tries to Lose its Complex
It's always sad when youngsters spread their wings and leave the nest. Even now, one of the market data industry's offspring, having gone through early years smothered with attention, through its teens filled with growing pains and no one understanding…
Junk Mail? What About Junk Data?
Just as the bane of a data manager's existence is dealing with ever-increasing volumes of often irrelevant quote data, a journalist's nightmare is dealing with the incessant flow of press releases from PR professionals desperate to share the latest news…
Mastering Master Data Governance
Ravi Shankar highlights the seven critical questions financial institutions should ask when looking to achieve successful master data governance
Market Structure Mashup
Letter From The Editor
Editor’s letter - The perfect storm
Things are pretty hectic at the moment. A barrel of oil is now officially 30% more expensive than it was six months ago, and although fuel prices haven't rocketed quite at the same rate, I'm enough of a realist to understand that energy firms are not…
An army of one
The economic downturn in the US has had some surprising consequences. The Associated Press reports that the US Marines and Army received a surge of new recruits in April, which took them well above their recruitment goals despite the unpopular and ugly…
One hub to rule them all
The rapid rise in the use of STP for OTC derivatives trade affirmations and confirmations has triggered the establishment of a number of players over recent years with platforms from DTCC and SwapsWire dominating the market. However, the fact that no…
The gloves come off at TradeTech... sort of
With the LSE, Chi-X, and Turquoise on the same panel, everyone at this year's TradeTech conference could be forgiven for thinking they were in for something of a Mexican stand-off. But as Joel Clark reports, the panel discussion turned out to be a damp…
Attitude adjustment
The expectation game's role in the hedge fund industry can prove make-or-break more often than not for many individual managers. Bearish investor expectations in particular don't bode especially well. By Stewart Eisenhart
Operating with Bear Bones
It's official. After a quick 10-minute vote by Bear Stearns shareholders, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has himself a new, if slightly battered, prime brokerage business. According to officials, it will operate as wholly owned subsidiary of JPMorgan…
The Welch Way
With the klaxons sounding over the credit crunch, there's a quieter revolution happening in IT. Between the cost cutting and rising demand for faster and more exhaustive risk calculations, major financial firms are being pushed into deploying compute and…
Opening Doors
We hear a lot about trading firms trying to obtain data from emerging markets because they believe they can achieve higher returns from higher-risk, less established markets. But one problem with this is that few markets still regard themselves as …
Exploiting the New Realities
It is interesting what pops into your inbox when you edit a publication called Dealing with Technology . Last week, I received a press release from a Danish firm that had put a genetic switch into tobacco to turn the plant red in the presence of chemical…
A Case of Déjà Vu for Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters hit the mainstream news again this week amid fears that the vendor plans to lay off thousands of staff as a cost cutting measure following last month's merger. If we rewind-or perhaps "Fast Forward"-a few years, haven't we seen this…
Business Continuity: A Sleeping Tiger in a Bear Market?
With a severe global credit squeeze, news of billions of dollars in asset write-downs by firms, headline-grabbing fraud scandals, accelerating merger-and-acquisition (M&A) activity and anticipated redundancy programs that look certain to follow, survival…
For Better or Worse... Consolidation's a Bitch
Anyone who's moved in with roommates knows the pros and cons of consolidating multiple lives with all their associated "baggage" into a single living space. There are economies to be saved, but also inconveniences to be borne. And rarely does the process…
Never a Dull Moment
Having lived and worked in New York City for the past decade, I have seen first hand how remarkably the city can reinvent itself. From the redevelopment of Times Square and relocation of the historic Fulton Fish Market to the recovery from the scars of 9…
Front Office Grids: Why Bother?
During a panel discussion that took place at the second annual Street#Grid event ( see story , page 1 ), technologists and consultants discussed the challenges of expanding enterprise compute and data grids to the front office. It reminds me of a…
InfoDyne Sale Reflects Need for Speed, Volumes
One of the themes of last week's North American Financial Information Summit was the continuing battle to balance the need for low-latency data with the burden of managing rising data volumes. And if any consensus of sorts was reached, it appeared to be…
The Advantages of Consolidation
Access to the right enterprise data is essential, especially in the current environment, says Tony Scianna, EVP, SunGard's Brokerage & Clearance