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Layer Cake: The Rise of Platform-as-a-Service

Cloud is the catch-all term encompassing a number of different components. Of those, software-as-a-service is the most prominent, although platform-as-a-service now offers similar, predominantly hardware-focused benefits to the financial services…

Vendor Relationships: What Lies Beneath

Consensus among buy-side firms is that there can sometimes be a world of difference between expectations and reality when dealing with a vendor. Steve Dew-Jones canvasses opinion on the most important considerations before awarding a technology or…

When It Comes to Mobile, All Devices Welcome

Phones and tablets aren’t just for Angry Birds. Mobile devices have allowed financial professionals to operate on a 24/7 basis, and be less attached to the office. Jake Thomases explores whether they should be allowed to embed work functionality into…

TCA: Comparing Apples to Apples

As transaction-cost analysis continues to evolve, both the buy and sell sides are using it not only to determine performance levels, but in all areas of the trade lifecycle. Given these developments, what are the key considerations for an effective TCA…

Data Readiness Under Dodd-Frank

Inside Reference Data gathered a panel of leading industry experts to discuss the current state of regulation and standards readiness in the data industry. Dodd-Frank and the LEI loomed large in importance, as Michael Shashoua reports, but business…

AllianceBernstein Tames the Onboarding Beast

AllianceBernstein was struggling with its manually intensive onboarding process. It turned to Markit to answer the challenge. The result: Markit Document Exchange, which, as Anthony Malakian discovers, has proven to be something of a rarity in the…

Short Circuit: Does Flash Crash II Still Loom?

Two years after the Flash Crash, an event of similar proportions has yet to occur, despite doomsday prophecies to the contrary. Have measures such as circuit-breakers helped to safeguard the stability of modern capital markets, and more importantly, have…

South Africa: Bigger, Better, Faster?

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange is moving its trading engine from London to South Africa in July, with the aim of increasing its matching speeds, and by so doing, enhancing the overall trading experience it provides its clients. Steve Dew-Jones talks to…

Predators in the Pool: How Dark Pools Tackle HFT

Judgments about whether a dark pool is safe from predatory trading behavior will determine how often that pool is visited. Jake Thomases discovers that, although it is easy for operators to monitor their pool, it’s the philosophies behind filtration that…

Going Boldly With Enterprise Data

In Japan and other Asian markets, enterprise data management is gaining traction as firms start to reap benefits from putting it into practice. Michael Shashoua hears from industry practitioners and providers about this trend

The Perils of Golden Copy

Data management is becoming more important to risk management functions, as the impact of regulation becomes more clear. Michael Shashoua hears the pros and cons of centralized data and single solutions compared to silos and multiple versions

Total (Data) Quality Management

Inside Reference Data gathered a panel of leading industry experts to discuss the current characteristics of data management that are seen as important to reference data operations projects. Data quality, master data management and the legal entity…

OMS and EMS: Peace Through Marriage

Order management systems and execution management systems are the Hatfields and the McCoys of trading software. Long have they quarreled over their relative merits. Jake Thomases examines how a push toward unification within a single architecture has…

Radio Silence: Are Exchanges Trying to Curb HFT?

As several exchanges in Europe and the US prepare to implement efficiency programs for order messaging-to-trade ratios, some in the industry are seeing this as a self-regulatory move to curb high-frequency trading ahead of statutory rulings. But is this…

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