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Credit Trading Gets a Kick
Icap Electronic Broking expects to see dramatic performance improvement in its BrokerTec credit-trading platform, as the firm nears the end of a two-and-a-half-year project to roll out the new global matching-engine architecture. By Rob Daly
Try Before You Buy: Firms, Vendors Employ Proofs of Concept
Technology vendors were once loath to give away their ideas for free. Financial service firms were similarly unwilling to invest in a project that might be a sunk cost. However, attitudes are changing, and it is now standard for companies to pay for…
Risk and Compliance: Driven by Data
The efficacy of risk management and compliance practices across the buy side and sell side, two of the most high-profile business drivers for the foreseeable future, is entirely contingent on the quality and consistency of the data feeding those systems…
Numbers Game: Gauging the Impact of Big Data
Big Data is growing and is clearly a driving topic in 2012. As with many recent innovations, however, its definition is amorphous. In the first of a two-part feature, Waters examines exactly what constitutes Big Data, where it comes from, and why it’s…
Centralized Data: Analytics’ Friend or Foe?
The Pleasures and Pains of Centralized Data
Facing Up To Fatca
All the signs suggest US anti-tax evasion regulations present major data challenges for firms in 2012. However, it may be possible to derive business benefits through compliance, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Running With The Rules
Strapline: Regulation & Standards
Olympian Capital Management's Renaissance
After Michael Levas started Olympian Capital Management from his kitchen table in Fort Lauderdale back in 2003, he found that in order to turn the firm into the hedge fund of his dreams he would have to find the right partner. Enter Arun Kaul. By Anthony…
Equities Mask for Derivatives
Concerned about the danger posed by leveraged OTC derivatives, regulation is forcing many of those instruments from a bilaterally traded environment to a publicly traded one. Dealers are preparing for the automation of collateral management and clearing…
Algo Trading and Fixed Income: Tilting at Windmills
Algorithmic trading is pervasive in equities and other liquid markets, but how far has it penetrated into fixed income? Some fear that the introduction of algorithmic trading strategies into bonds, fixed-income futures and other areas will engender…
Unlocking LEI Potential
Third-party service providers are taking the opportunity presented by the legal entity identifier (LEI) to offer enhanced services to their customers. Nicholas Hamilton hears how these providers are preparing for implementation
Prediction and Preparation
Industry professionals have their work cut out for them concerning the legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, ratified in 2011, and administrators of the standard were also named last year. Data professionals from Cusip Global Services, BNY Mellon and…
To Catch a Thief: New Strategies, Technologies Combat Fraud
As regulators praise the advancements made by financial institutions in the prevention of fraud and money laundering, new technology is helping detect criminal behavior. Jake Thomases looks at the progress that’s been made.
Liquidity Lost: What's Next for Dark Pools?
Pipeline Trading Systems, the seven-year-old dark pool operator specializing in block trades, paid $1 million to resolve SEC claims that it failed to provide the confidentiality and liquidity it advertised to customers. Will the incident have broader…
Are You Fit For Fatca?
The publication of the draft of the US anti-tax evasion regulations at the end of the month is keenly anticipated, with all indications suggesting a significant impact on data quality and management
The Reference Cloud
Strapline: Data Management
Weiss' Steven Breen Keeps it Simple
Steven Breen has made a career out of untangling and simplifying hedge funds’ technology infrastructures. Breen now finds himself at Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisors implementing a blueprint that has been honed over the course of nearly two decades. By…
The LEI Of The Land
Strapline: Regulation & Standards
Latency Race Going Nowhere Fast
Open-outcry exchanges are now largely extinct, with most trading executed through global computer networks. The rate of these transactions is limited only by technology and, increasingly, the speed of light. But as latency reaches the point of…
