Special report

Changing equity markets test buy-side traders

Market volatility, counterparty risk and other issues are posing significant challenges to buy-side equity traders at the same time that their brokers are having to rethink their own business models. A new Tabb Group report, Equity trading in transition:…

Pricing priorities

After the global credit crisis exposed weaknesses in methods investment managers and other financial institutions employ to price and assess the risks in their portfolios, a new Aite Group report predicts firms will double their technology spending on…

Supplementary solution

When Metzler Asset Management opted to implement the Charles River IMS, it chose to supplement its existing front-office applications with the system, rather than use it as a replacement. For an asset manager with an historically strong in-house bias,…

Executive action

Cynics would have argued that the buy and sell side would be too busy looking for the green shoots of economic recovery to attend the July 1 Best Execution 2009 (London) event, hosted by Buy-Side Technology and DWT. But an impressive turnout on the year…

London Calling

It was nearly a year ago when DWT and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology sponsored the first Best Execution conference in Manhattan. While trying to remain modest, I can say the event was a rousing success. The dialog that occurred between the buy-…

Panel Urges Euro Data Standards

The financial industry must encourage the adoption of standards in order to ease the burden of consolidating ever-increasing data volumes from a fragmented market, according to panelists at an event held by Thomson Reuters in London last week.

Texas endowment fund opts for general overhaul

When the time came for Austin-based endowment manager Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (TTSTC) to revamp its allocation process for alternative investment vehicles, a more robust risk management platform had to be part of the package. But rather…

SIFMA 2009: Think Small

While this year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition will probably be most remembered for being much smaller than the spectacles of years gone by in terms of exhibitor numbers and delegates-hardly surprising, given the current state of…

Deutsche Börse Launches MNI Algo News

Deutsche Börse will this week launch a low-latency feed of machine-readable economic news, dubbed CEF Alpha+ Macro, which has been developed in partnership with subsidiary news agency Market News International, which the exchange acquired at the end of…

Morningstar Integrates Tenfore Data

Chicago-based market data vendor Morningstar has begun a project to update all of its key browser-based products to carry streaming data from its Real-Time division, formed by the acquisition of UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems last year ( IMD , Dec…

Burgundy, Quote MTF Enlist Interxion for Co-Los

European multilateral trading facilities Burgundy and Quote MTF are both using Dutch hosting service provider Interxion to provide co-location services, to satisfy client demand for low-latency access to their primary matching engines and data…

Apama Expands Market Surveillance Platform

Complex event processing and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama will this week release new monitoring features within its market surveillance platform, to enable users to detect operational risk, as well as more pre-built pattern…

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