Articles by Anthony Malakian
Saxo Bank Signs with Greenline for Testing, Monitoring Solutions
Danish investment bank Saxo Bank is partnering with Greenline Financial Technologies for a suite of testing, certification and monitoring solutions: CertiFIX, MagniFIX and VeriFIX.
The Uncertainty is Gone─Whether You Like It or Not
After months of uncertainty, the electorate in the US has voted for four more years with President Obama, which means that Dodd-Frank isn't going anywhere.
Lessons Learned From the Mother of All Storms
Despite being devastating, Hurricane Sandy provided a valuable opportunity for firms to test their BCP contingencies. Did your firm pass or fail?
HFT's Delicate Balance
During a recent high-frequency trading webcast, industry leaders discussed the difficulties around creating an effective HFT environment, how to manage those costs, and how the market is evolving. It’s a delicate balance, but a necessary one for any…
Anthony Malakian: There’s No ‘Simple’ in Integration
Even in the face of constrained budgets, buy-side firms are still pushing forward on projects to combine their OMSs and EMSs. But, says Anthony, you can’t get the goods without the green.
Cerberus CIO Richard Alexander's A-Team
After four-plus years at Cerberus Capital Management, Richard Alexander has spearheaded projects to tap into the cloud, create a data warehouse, and build a new datacenter. And that’s just the beginning. By Anthony Malakian with photos by Amy Fletcher
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Tom Warren, president, UAT, Inc.
Increased Electronic Trading in Futures Means Major IT Upgrades Needed
As more and more buy-side firms seek to take advantage of electronic trading strategies for futures—such as routing orders through direct-market access (DMA) solutions or using algorithmic-trading options—brokers and third-party trading platform…
New CME Globex Platform Now Live, With a New Matching Engine, Interfaces Coming
Last week the CME went live with its new Globex platform, the CME Performance Release, which features a new infrastructure and order gateways. The platform aims to increase predictability for the CME's customers, with plans for a new matching engine in…
The Industry Needs to Come Together on Policing Itself When it Comes to HFT
Whether its through AT 9000 or some other industry-led initiative, HFT firms need to be proactive in addressing the risk concerns inherent in their chosen strategy.
Linedata Partners With StatPro for Portfolio Analytics, Reporting
Linedata has announced that it will team with StatPro in order to provide integrated portfolio analytics and reporting to asset managers via the cloud.
Capco Unveils Architecture-as-a-Service Offering
Capco, a provider of consulting services to the financial services industry, has unveiled a new offering, Architecture-as-a-Service (AaaS) that will allow firms to hire architects on an "as-needed" basis.
High-Frequency Trading Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on October 11, 2012 to discuss what technological and operational initiatives firms are employing in their high-frequency trading strategies
Nasdaq OMX, Dalian Commodity Exchange Sign Consulting Agreement With Eye Toward Future Works
The Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and the Nasdaq OMX Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow Nasdaq to consult with the Chinese exchange on technology enhancements with an opportunity for further business engagements.
The Mercenary Technologist
As budgetary constraints clamp down on buy-side organizations, Anthony says that the vendor-hedge fund relationship may start changing.
Is Apple's iPhone Beginning to Establish its Dominance on Wall Street?
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, technology leaders at several major buy-side firms discussed their bring-your-own-device strategies, but most of the talk was around the Apple iPhone and iPad, and not Android or BlackBerry.
Marriage of Predictive Analytics, Visualization Necessary for Understanding Big Data
During a panel discussion on Big Data at today’s Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in Manhattan, buy-side firms discussed the difficulty in handling the massive flood of data, as well as being able to look at the information in a way that is not…
AIG Chartis CTO: Get the People Equation Right
Good technology implementations follow a fairly basic formula: the right plan plus the right technology plus the right team equals success. For Mary Kotch, CTO for the Americas at AIG Chartis, the most important part of that equation is the people.
BlackRock CTO: ‘Password Reset’ a Surprising Challenge for BYOD Programs
Trying to prevent employees from using their personal mobile devices at work is a losing battle. As a result, firms are grappling with the security challenges involved with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies.
Digiterre Launches Enhanced CRM Platform
Software provider Digiterre has released the latest version of its customer-relationship management (CRM) platform, dCRM. The integrated platform will be called Communica.
Citi Debuts Alternative Trading Platform
Citi has launched a new real-time alternative trading platform, dubbed Citi Cross ATS, which will allow users access to a wide number of sources of liquidity through the bank's proprietary matching engine.
FinAnalytica Unveils Managed Service Offering for Risk, Operations
Analytics solutions provider FinAnalytica has launched Cognity Managed Services, which provides customized managed services for data management, portfolio analytics, reporting and consulting. It will be delivered through the vendor's Cognity application…
Anthony Malakian: A Postscript on Form PF
Complying with the new Form PF requirement is a burdensome, time-consuming task. But Anthony says that it doesn’t have to be a nightmare, as long as the proper amount of preparation is done.
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Justin Wheatley, CEO, StatPro