Emerging Technologies
Teenage Sex and the Virtues of Being Nice
I have, over the last 12 years, had the opportunity of covering a wide variety of subjects while writing about financial technology, although I never anticipated stumbling across the issue of teenage sex during the course of my work. You’ll need to carry…
Thomson Reuters' Brittan: Analytics Will Be Key to Unlocking Value in 2014
Philip Brittan, chief technology officer and global head of platform for Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk division, discusses the importance of analytics in delivering competitive edge from commoditized content.
Edgar Online President: Industry Must Face Fear of Change to Exploit Apps, Mobile in 2014
David Frankel, president of Edgar Online, explains why he believes analytics─increasingly delivered through apps and mobile devices─will be the source of innovation for the financial technology and data industries next year.
2013's Trading Technology: A Year of 'Accelerating Returns'
Readers of Waters' ongoing coverage will have noticed several themes that blossomed over the past 12 months. Some of them were predictable. But 2013 also offered up more than a few unexpected hints of opportunities to come—whether imminently, or further…
2013's Business Technology: The Year in Trends
This year has seen major leaps forward when it comes to analyzing data, managing latency, the use of public clouds and the development of an IBOR strategy. 2013 also marked the three-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act becoming the law of the land.
Market Data Industry's Top Quotes of 2013
Our gift to you: some of the most poignant and pithy comments from our pages in 2013
2013 Review: Herd in Review: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
As we take today to celebrate and surround ourselves with friends and family, it's worth remembering the difference that the actions of other people make--in the data industry as well as in our everyday lives. So in IMD's final 2013 Year in Review…
Season's Greetings from Inside Market Data
I remember Christmas as a child, being overpowered by the sights, smells and sounds, from bright tinsel and baubles on the tree to the aroma of sizzling turkey, and carol singers─and of course, a pile of presents beneath the tree.
2013 Review: Social Media, ‘Hash Crash’ Are 2013’s #trendingtopics
Just as 2010 was the year of the Flash Clash, 2013 will be remembered as teh year of the “Hash Crash,” when the debate over whether social media influences stock prices was settled by hackers.
2013 Cover Stories: The Buy Side
As 2013 draws to a close, we look back over the year's coverage, and focus on the buy-side executives profiled for the magazine's monthly cover story.
2013 Review: EU Consolidated Tape Encounters Hurdles to Implemenation
Progress continued on the long uphill road toward the introduction of a pan-European consolidated tape, but suffered a setback this year after regulatory uncertainty over MiFID 2 led to the dismantling of industry-led group The COBA Project, which was…
2013 Cover Stories: The Sell Side
As 2013 draws to a close, we look back over the year's coverage, and focus on the sell-side executives profiled for the magazine's monthly cover story.
A Look Into My Cloudy Crystal Ball
Anthony looks at some of the topics he expects to cover extensively in 2014.
2013 Review: Crowd-Sourced Content, Search Gain Traction
As traders and investors seek new ways to find alpha in increasingly commoditized datasets, the accuracy of data and how it is sourced—and the ease with which it can be searched—is becoming more important, prompting the creation of new services for…
OPRA Seeks New SIP Operator, Enlists Jordan & Jordan to Run RFP
The Options Price Reporting Authority has begun a tender process for a technology supplier to manage the SIP (securities information processor) that collects data from US options exchanges, calculates a best bid and offer, and distributes OPRA's…
2013 Review: Traders Weigh Importance of Fast Data vs Big Data
While still a focus for high-frequency traders with latency-sensitive strategies, the latency arms race appeared to have reached a stalemate in 2013, with low latency a necessity but ultra-low latency more of an expensive luxury, with some firms…
Bloomberg Names Risk and Compliance Exec
Bloomberg is making good on its promise to beef up compliance and data security measures-following the revelation earlier this year that its journalists were able to access some client terminal usage data-by hiring Paul Wood as the vendor's first chief…
Kaplan Swaps Telx for Equinix
Shawn Kaplan recently joined datacenter and hosting provider Equinix as sales director for the vendor's major accounts team covering financial services, a newly-created role leading a sales team focused on building strategic relationships with Equinix's…
2013 Review: For Exchanges in 2013, Life’s a Glitch
US stock and options exchanges suffered such significant outages in 2013 that regulators step ped in to bring the markets to task over the failures, many of which were linked to problems with the exchanges’ ability to disseminate market data.
Do People Still Matter?
The holiday season has the effect of bringing people together, often in small spaces, because it’s freezing and we don’t want to go outside. But there’s something to be said for looking up from our devices—smartphones, algo trading engines—once in awhile…
Open Platform: Cash in on Your Cache─Using CPU Cache, Hybrid Models and Vectors to Ditch Database Delays
As data volumes continue to rise, processing this data efficiently requires database developers to employ new methods of storing and processing data, says Steve Graves, chief executive of in-memory database provider McObject
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Numerix Names Carley as EMEA MD
Analytics provider Numerix has announced the appointment of Tim Carley, who will become the firm's managing director of the EMEA sales territory.