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HSBC, Citi Contend With Standards Variations
Data management professionals continue to face multiple data standards that prove challenging when trying to achieve consistency. Michael Shashoua explores how semantic data is proving useful to aggregating data generated under these different standards.
Fatca-Fueled Shuffle
The US foreign tax collection regulation is beginning to drive firms to change data documentation and management procedures. Michael Shashoua audits the developments
The Nuclear Option: Eaton Vance's John Shea
John Shea sits down with Jake Thomases to discuss his interesting pre-Wall Street career and Eaton Vance's IT.
Dodd–Frank Turns Three—What's Next?
July marks the three-year anniversary of the Dodd–Frank Act being signed into law. Anthony Malakian takes a look back at the IT challenges faced, and previews what’s still ahead.
Poles Apart? Tech Push Boosts Poland's Prominence
Capital markets in Central Europe—and especially Poland—have made steady gains after being unlocked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, with new technology helping to both catalyze reform and create jobs. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports from Warsaw on the…
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
SEFs at the Starting Gate, Technologists Prep for Challenges
On May 16 this year, US regulators finalized long-awaited rules that govern various aspects of how swap execution facilities will operate. Several years after the draft rules were first announced, attention now turns to the technology challenges…
Lessons from the Hash Crash
Over the past few months, a series of glitches similar to the one that caused the Hash Crash has made it clear that the financial markets are at the mercy of high-frequency trading machines. Some of these systems feed mostly on social media content,…
Putting a Value on Collateral
With the European Market Infrastructure Regulation set to impose margining requirements on parties to over-the-counter derivatives trades, firms are examining their own policies for valuing their collateral, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Taking Action Against Asian Fragmentation
The diverse nature of the Asia-Pacific region has long caused problems for the timely processing of corporate actions data. Nicholas Hamilton finds out how market participants manage these challenges and what is being done to improve standardization and…
Governing Data Governance
High-level data officers are being tasked with development of data governance frameworks. Michael Shashoua hears about some of the methods they are using to set up complete systems.
SocGen's New Lease: CTO Bob Schmeider Prepares a Built-to-Spec New York Trading Floor
In July, Société Générale is heading east to its new home at 245 Park Avenue. With the massive infrastructural consequences in store, Americas CTO Bob Schmeider has found a project—la nouvelle maison Americaine—that is ideally fit. By Tim Bourgaize…
Private Equity's Data Play
In private equity, general partners (GPs)—which invest directly in portfolio companies—are becoming more sophisticated about monitoring those companies’ performance, while limited partners, which invest in the GPs’ funds, are in turn scrutinizing the…
DTCC, ISITC, Major Firms Plan Collateral Data Processing Improvements
Lessons learned from transaction reporting, fund processing and settlement advances could prove useful in managing the growing trove of data being generated in the collateral space. Michael Shashoua uncovers the issues confronting collateral data…
Mobility Webcast: Anytime, Anywhere
In a recent Waters webcast on mobility, a number of key themes were addressed, including treading the fine line between regulatory obligations and personal privacy, managing multiple devices and a burgeoning IT infrastructure, and using mobile strategies…
The Lost Generation of Corporate Bond Platforms
Corporate bonds today remain among the most manual instruments to trade. But it did not have to be this way. Starting as far back as the late 1990s, attempts have been made to automate institutional credit trading. In part one of this two-part feature,…
Identifying LEI Opportunities and Challenges
The rollout of the legal entity identifier offers firms an opportunity to improve their onboarding processes and bring together valuable data sets, but a successful outcome depends on careful planning, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Rise of the CDO
Over the past year, the ranks of chief data officers at major financial services firms have been increasing. Michael Shashoua examines why and what this means for data management
JP Morgan, Northern Trust Search For Data Quality
In an Inside Reference Data webcast, panelists shared the factors driving their work to improve upon data quality, and the obstacles affecting those efforts. Michael Shashoua reports
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Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly
Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage, and…
Client Reporting: The Road to Empowerment
Quarterly investment reports have long provided the sandwich filling between investment managers and their clients. Vendors have helped to automate the process, but Steve Dew-Jones considers how technology can take this process to the next level.
Down Mexico Way: Will State-of-the-Art Tech Lure Liquidity?
Sensing an opportunity as the local economic picture continues to shine, the Mexican stock exchange last year installed a matching engine with significantly better latency and throughput. The technology is unquestionably in place, but will liquidity…
Regulation Webcast: Risk and Reward
Questions of extraterritoriality, market surveillance and the role of technology when it comes to dealing with new regulation, took precedence during a recent Waters webcast on the topic, along with elements of risk introduced by the sheer number of new…