Articles by Anthony Malakian
The Red Queen and the Black Death: The Realities of Finding Value in a World of Big Data
At Waters USA, Anthony Scriffignano implored the audience to retool the way they think about data, else risk drowning in a sea of information.
Fidessa Turns to Hanweck Associates for Actionable Equity Options Analytics
Fidessa group has integrated Hanweck Associates’ option analytics service, VoleraFeed, into its trading platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
The term “investment book of record”—or IBOR—is both new and old. While the term itself is new, its function is based on activities that have always existed across the buy side, to some degree or another: a centralized, intra-day book of positions across…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—AlphaSense
The word on everyone’s lips these days is “analytics.” As firms work to collect and store huge amounts of information, they want to be able to analyze that data to make actionable business decisions based on it. It’s only the second time that the best…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Winners' Circle—S3 Partners
Following up on last year’s best newcomer award, New York-based S3 Partners was named as the best big data technology provider to the buy side at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. Robert Sloan, founder and managing partner at S3 Partners, chats…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—S3 Partners
Last year, S3 Partners, a New York-based financial data, analytics and services vendor, won the best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) category in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its Blacklight data aggregation and analytics tool. This year…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Eze Castle Integration
It was only a matter of time before Eze Castle Integration (ECI) won this category. ECI—not to be confused with Eze Software Group (see page 50)—was at the vanguard of cloud’s explosion and was signing buy-side clients long before the technology became…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side EMS—Portware
For the third time in four years, Portware, recently acquired by FactSet, walks away with the best buy-side execution-management system (EMS) category. Buy-side trading desks are under increasing pressure to maintain execution quality while transaction…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side OMS—Charles River Development
Welcome back, Charles River! When the Buy-Side Technology Awards launched in 2007, it was Charles River at the top of the best OMS category. The Burlington-based vendor followed up that feat with wins in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The next four years, though,…
60 Seconds with Donna Milrod
Donna Milrod is the head of DTCC Solutions
London Stock Exchange Unveils New Investor Relationship Management Tools
LSEG has gone live with its new Elite Connect investor relationship management platform.
Airex CEO Stephen Kuhn Discusses Company's Plans to Become the Amazon of Wall Street
Today Airex announced Brazilian trading platform, market data and network connectivity provider CMA has joined Airex's AMP program.
Airex CEO Stephen Kuhn Discusses Company's Plans to Become the Amazon of Wall Street
Today Airex announced Brazilian trading platform, market data and network connectivity provider CMA has joined Airex's AMP program.
MiFID II Delay: When in Doubt, Play the Technology Card
Anthony says this delay is no surprise. Expect the same arguments to be made this time next year.
Rival Systems Rolls Out New Enterprise Risk Platform
Software provider Rival Systems has launched Rival Risk, its new enterprise-wide risk management platform.
Anthony Malakian: The Swimmers in the Lake
As data lakes gain traction on Wall Street, Anthony says that skilled programmers with knowledge of big data analysis and cleansing will become increasingly valuable.
Data Lakes: Uncharted Waters
Anthony Malakian examines why data lakes are growing in popularity, and the risks that they pose.
The Internet of Things and How to Manage Data ... The Challenge Looms
Data lakes may help to tackle the IoT challenge.
Decryptex Deploys MIK's Security Master
Moore Capital veteran tells Waters about the choice.
With Outages Rising, Diversification Takes on Greater Importance
Panelists at BST North America discuss the recent spate of outages experienced at utilities, vendors and exchanges.
Divorcing Bitcoin From Blockchain
Anthony says first we need to make clear, once and for all, that 'bitcoin' and 'blockchain' are not used interchangeably.
As Visualization Tools Improve, Data Analytics Moves from ‘Big Data' to ‘Smart Data'
Heads of technology discuss the evolving data analytics space and how visualization tools are helping to compliment the movement.
Markit Rolls Out Vendor Management Tool in Collaboration with Barclays, HSBC & Morgan Stanley
Markit has partnered with three major banks to create a vendor management platform dubbed Know Your Third Party, or KY3P for short.
BlackRock's Godrich: OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Centers Increasingly on the Rise
The money manager's chief technologist sang the praises of open-source technologies at BST North America.