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CAT Concerns: The Biggest Hurdles Still Facing the Massive Audit Trail
What still lies ahead for the Consolidated Audit Trail?
The Tinkerer: Elliot Noma, Garrett Asset Management
Anthony Malakian sits down with Elliot Noma to discuss how he went from writing books about psychophysics to running a hedge fund.
Europe Unbundles Research and Execution
The unbundling of research and execution functions is one of the most widely anticipated and debated pieces of regulation amid the storm of measures introduced by the European Commission that will have a significant impact on how the buy side and sell…
Blockchain Standards' Pivotal Moment
Distributed ledger technology runs the risk of fragmentation as multiple vendors and permissioned ledgers emerge
What Does GDPR Mean for Banks?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation imposes accountability for protecting customers' and employees' personal data. It's drawing more attention to data privacy protection capabilities
Dancing in the Dark: Fraud Shapes Dark Pools
Dark pools, with their anonymous members and clandestine dealings, have come in for a fair bit of stick in the last few years, especially from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic keen to shine a light on these increasingly popular execution venues.
Creating the Clean Data Core
Data collection and cleansing increasingly seen as foundation for compliance and efficiency
Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld: Slow and Steady
Bob Greifeld discusses his career, HFT and blockchain with Dan DeFrancesco.
Agile: More Mentality Than Methodology
Part two of this two-part feature looks at the business processes most suited to Agile & the need for Agile to be a company mentality.
The Search For Identity
For OTC derivatives transactions, market participants seeing more challenges beyond just regulatory reporting demands
ESMA Shifts Data Project Into Gear
European regulator talks to trading venues before testing, to centralize data reporting and liquidity calculations
Firms Strive To Channel Data Into Intelligent Insights
Providers and consultants describe an 'evolution' of stored raw data into prescriptive 'intelligence'
MiFID II is Getting Personal
Sensitive personal information about traders and decision-makers must be forwarded to regulators, leaving the industry seeing red
Open to Open Source
The benefits of using open-source software are too great to ignore for financial firms.
Machine Learning's Many Tentacles
Artificial intelligence is being applied in numerous functions used in financial services data management
Aberdeen's Iain Plunkett: Transformation Through Technology
Aberdeen Asset Management's new group CTO/COO discusses using technology as a lever for transformation.
Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention
Regulation Automated Trading was created to protect market integrity and update the CFTC’s rules as algorithmic trading proliferates. There are many areas where there’s consensus agreement as to the benefits of this proposed regulation, but Anthony…
Adequately Agile: Capital Markets Firms Embrace Agile Methodology
While the Agile software development methodology has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really only been in the last few years that capital markets firms have started to embrace various aspects of its Manifesto.
Grappling with Vendor Risk Rules
Vendors in the financial services industry rarely make the headlines unless the news is bad. And in 2015, the news was often catastrophically bad. By Steve Marlin
London's Fintech Start-Ups Mature
Regulatory burdens are driving development in early stage business sector
Getting Smarter About Serving Risk Management Needs
Risk modeling, separation of finance and risk departments become concerns for risk data management
Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality
Waters takes an in-depth look at advancements made in this field of artificial intelligence and where there's still room for advancement.
The Educator: Georgette Kiser, The Carlyle Group
Georgette Kiser learned early in her career the importance of understanding the people she builds solutions and platforms for.
Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution
The historic liquidity issues plaguing the fixed-income market have been recognized for some time and a number of trading platforms have been launched to facilitate trading, particularly within the secondary bond market.