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Lessons to be learned

What appears to be the first major demonstration of how problematic pension fund managers' inclination to increase allocations to hedge funds are proving to be, is unfolding in the wake of last year's Amaranth Advisors collapse. By Stewart Eisenhart

Tapping technology – Joel Clark addresses the perennially topical issue of the ASP (application service provider) model across the buy side, and finds that it is not only end-user firms opting for the ASP route – Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage is already

Vendor-hosted technology, or 'apps-on-tap', is not a new phenomenon but it is a changing one. Gone are the days when ASP was confined to back-office technologies at funds on tight IT budgets; ASPs have permeated every facet of the buy side, so that only…

The scheming of the green

How do you know when an environmentalist is exaggerating about the dangers of climate change? Easy: their lips are moving. By Phil Albinus

CEP Gains Ground

Attending last week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) technology management conference in midtown Manhattan, you couldn't help but notice the increased interest in complex event processing (CEP).

Let the Games Begin

This week, most North American financial technologists will descend on the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan for the annual rite of passage: the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and…

If Not Now, When?

A little over a month ago at the DWT conference in London, a panel consisting of technologists from a number of major investment banks proclaimed the death of direct market access (DMA).

Citi Takes Bats Trading Stake

NEW YORK—Global banking giant Citi has hedged its bets again for a post-Regulation NMS U.S. market by taking a minority interest in Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered Bats Trading, which runs the Bats ECN.

Howard's End

It is obviously difficult to gauge a person's expression over the phone, but last week it seemed that eSpeed chairman, CEO and president Howard Lutnick was sporting an ear-to-ear grin as he announced the merger of electronic inter-dealer broker eSpeed…

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