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Economic Woes Drive Data Caution
The economy continued to overshadow data strategies and decisions in 2009, and even though the markets have shown a swift recovery in some quarters, continued uncertainty about the economic climate is prompting firms to take a cautious approach to…
Latency: Industry Ups Focus on Measurement
The race to zero of eliminating latency from data distribution and processing continued apace in 2009, though firms also became more critical of their ability to accurately measure latency, to assess their status compared to their peers.
Users Rethink, Re-organize as Costs Remain Key
With budgets strained by weak economic conditions, firms across the industry embarked on a series of initiatives this year to wring out cost savings and reap efficiencies across their global data operations.
CEP Consolidates Position as Technology Matures
Complex event processing software vendors pushed into new business areas in 2009 as CEP gained adoption for mainstream applications, and to mitigate the impact of the economy with a diversified product set.
Vendors Vie for Share with New Platforms
Though Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg maintained dominant market shares and unveiled major initiatives in 2009, other data providers launched their own projects to broaden their client bases as they vie with rivals for the remainder of the market.
Data Consumers Spend for Technology Edge
Difficult operating conditions prevailed in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but user firms continued to invest in data technologies to give them an edge over rivals during 2009, either in the speed of sourcing and processing data, or in quality of…
Emerging Markets Appeal Lingers, Bucking Global Trends
Despite the recent crisis in Dubai, emerging markets as a whole continued to grow as a combination of commoditization and the global economic crisis forced investors to look further afield for returns on capital.
Safety in numbers
One isn’t just the loneliest number – it can also be the most dangerous. The traditional ‘single-prime’ hedge fund model, severely tested at the close of 2008, is a case in point, as hedge funds move towards multiple prime broker relationships. By…
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Climbing the Data Maturity Ladder
Data maturity is now one of the main topics of discussion in the data management world, and industry associations and firms are collaborating to identify the optimal data management maturity model. Carla Mangado explores how and why a standard model…
Editor's Letter - Making a molehill out of a mountain
Technology, especially when it comes to the financial services industry, can be pretty dreary stuff. Unless of course you're a propeller-head who grew up learning how to write code instead of playing computer games and falling out of trees. But that isn…
The 2009 Buy-Side Technology Awards
This year’s awards featured 120 entries across 18 categories from 52 different technology providers. The most popular category was that of best newcomer with 13 entries, while this year’s edition featured eight new winners.
Coming in from the cold
Central clearing has dominated the agenda of credit derivatives dealers this year, even though buy-side firms are yet to gain access to such industry initiatives. But, as Joel Clark reports, this is set to change mid-way through next month if the…
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