Opinion

Data Ticks and Poli-tics

This week, I’d like to tell you how US president George W. Bush and new British prime minister Gordon Brown—both avid IMD readers, I’m told—have already crossed swords over a series of market data-related issues. Like I say, I’d like to, but firstly, we…

Embracing the Changing European Payments Landscape

The Single European Payments Area becomes a reality in January 2008. Some firms are well advanced in their preparations, but others have a more relaxed approach. CB.Net's Nicholas Daniel asks what the directive will mean for data management

Editor’s letter: What have we done to deserve this?

That must have been the question on the lips of the conference organisers at this year's SunGard Europa event held on the shores of Lake Como in early June. Highlights of events such as these usually take place on the penultimate evening of the gathering…

Essential ingredients

City Practitioners’ Neil Hookway address the numerous communications challenges facing hedge funds and their technology providers when establishing the technical parameters of new projects.

Content Is King... Isn't It?

SIA shows… sorry, SIFMA shows… are like Christmas for market data professionals. The Hilton gets lit up like a Christmas tree and festooned with all kinds of flashy goodies. You play with your new toy for a while but then lose interest when you see that…

Where Is Grid Going?

For most of us, grid computing is a stateless network of compute nodes used to split and run complex analytic processes in parallel to reduce elapsed run times. However, for a small but growing number of market participants it is the next-generation,…

Sifting Through SIFMA

Imagine two and a half days of exhibitionism, hushed liaisons in expensive hotel suites, flashy booty to entice unsuspecting passers-by and drunken parties way into the night. But enough about my weekend; let's talk about the SIFMA Technology Management…

The Mustang or the Minivan?

Let's face it: minivans just aren't sexy. Sure, they have seating for your entire extended family, cargo space the size of a small basketball court, and enough hidden stowage to get lost in, but they won't turn heads the same way as the open-top Mustang…

Extra! Extra!

As Inside Market Data goes to press, the latest round in the industry's merger and acquisition frenzy sees two companies make abrupt about-faces while contributing to the ongoing trend towards consolidation. It's big news—quite literally: the latest…

Finucane's Theory of Evolution

Consolidated datafeed dinosaurs are evolving to escape the same fate as data dodos. By Don Finucane, vice president of product management and marketing, Interactive Data Real-Time Services

Editor's letter: Tell me why I don't like mergers?

I accept that mergers and acquisitions are part and parcel of the financial services industry. I don't necessarily like that fact, but I'm learning to deal with it. Mergers and acquisitions represent growth and progress, they signify the maturation of…

Store and purge

The boring world of data management is heating up and is about to boil over. Speak to today's data managers and you'll hear an interesting dissonance. Every CIO and techie assigned to storing and managing data knows that they are required by their…

Can two become one?

Max Bowie, editor of Inside Market Data magazine, scrutinises the recent Reuters acquisition by the Thomson Corporation, outlining the new management structure, predicting product integration headaches, and significantly, concluding that the only…

Blueprint for the future

The correlation between a buy-side firm's technology and its ability to trade fast and efficiently has never been stronger. Amy Muddimer explains this dependency by scrutinising technologies on the buy side that underpin the continuous drive for straight…

Register this

US Senator Charles Grassley and German Chancellor Angela Merkel make unlikely partners in commiseration. But both politicians face dim prospects in their attempts to assert more control over hedge funds, which seems to reflect a general lack of interest…

The Third Time’s the Charm

With much fanfare earlier this year, the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext finalized their merger into NYSE Euronext. Several weeks later, Eurex announced its acquisition of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). And late last week, corks were…

Nasqaq’s Foreign Exchange

What exactly draws US exchanges to European brides? Ask the NYSE’s John Thain, who brokered the exchange’s merger with Euronext, or Nasdaq chief executive Bob Greifeld, who—it was revealed as IMD went to press—is about to fork out $3.7 billion to buy…

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