Analysis
Fatca Meets Metadata
Citisoft chief executive Steve Young proposes a metadata repository as a destination for data collected from various sources to be channeled into efforts to comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
BlackRock's VedBrat Explains SEFs to the Buy Side
While the sell side and larger buy-side institutions have been preparing for the entrance of swap execution facilities (SEFs) to the market for some time, medium and small buy-siders have not. Supurna VedBrat, BlackRock's co-head of electronic trading…
In Asia, Fragmentation Creates Regional Technology Challenges
Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Trading Architecture Summit, held in Singapore last week, discussed the role that regulatory fragmentation is playing in forcing banks to develop complex, semi-siloed systems in order to operate in multiple countries while…
Legacy Concerns Risk Overriding Architecture Decisions at Banks
Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Trading Architecture Summit in Singapore last week debated the contrasts between staying current in terms of technology and managing tightened budget sheets, saying that the approaching end of the lifecycle for technology is…
The Pitfalls of Social Media
If the Mark Zuckerberg movie taught us anything, it's that there's plenty of drama in social networking. Usage of these tools is sky high in our personal lives. That shouldn't automatically carry over to our business lives.
Gulf Continues to Exist Between IT and Traders, Says IPC Poll
It is a frequent complaint that IT departments do not understand the needs of the business. Much rarer is when that complaint comes from the IT department itself.
Buy-Side Firms Grapple With 24-Hour Global Tech, Operations
At a recent conference in New York, major buy-side firms discussed the significant IT and staffing-related challenges associated with growing their businesses globally.
Mobile Apps Should Be More User Friendly, Says Buy-Side Panel
Cloud, mobile, predictive analytics, and IBOR among the topics at a TSAM panel on "what's hot, what's not" on the buy side.
TeraExchange Signs NFA for SEF Regulatory Services
The National Futures Association (NFA) has announced that TeraExchange has signed a pre-launch regulatory services agreement (RSA) with the industry body as part of its application to become a swap execution facility (SEF).
Mini Options' Early Successes Attract Prop Shops, Divert Tech Spend
Introduced in March, five “mini options”—or options tied to a minimum number of 10 shares, smaller than their conventional larger relatives that usually require 100—are steadily attracting proprietary trading shops behind the retail investors they were…
Liquidity Fragmentation in Fixed Income is Here to Stay, Says iTB CEO
Michael Chuang has made a big bet that history will not repeat itself when it comes to a massive collapse in the number of fixed income trading platforms.
SST Awards 2013: A Leap of Faith
The inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, will be remembered for many things, not least because those in attendance were introduced to an American icon in the form of ex-Major…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ SunGard
Given recent events across the financial services industry, few aspects of trading infrastructure and process are of a higher profile than market surveillance. Firms face devastating consequences from failing to properly monitor their employees’ trading…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Numerix
As with the Buy-Side Technology Awards, all category-winning products were considered for this award, the penultimate category of the Sell-Side Technology Awards and one of only two announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in Times…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions
With all the fuss and attention that software receives, when it comes to fulfilling basic trading needs, people often overlook the humble telephone. No office can operate without one, and the specialized needs of a trading floor make it an essential…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Caplin Systems
Of all the categories of this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, the award for the best implementation takes more stock of a vendor’s ability to deliver on its promise than any other.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ IPC
Trading networks are an emergent, but fierce, area of competition in capital markets technology. From concentrated webs within co-located data centers through to global, continent-spanning interconnections that link participants across the buy and sell…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit EDM
That Markit EDM ─ previously known as Cadis before Markit acquired the London-based data management technology provider in June last year — extended its focus from its buy-side stronghold to the sell side, is hardly surprising. That extension of its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream
Moves away from discrete, siloed systems toward fully integrated single platforms, particularly across the back office, are at the forefront of sell-side institutions’ minds these days.