Feature
State Street's IT Strategy
WATERS Q&A
Second Life Advantage?
FUTURE TECH
Re-Engineering Instinet
WATERS Q&A
Virtual Meeting Places
FUTURE TECH
You couldn't make this up
Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…
Transaction cost analysis – Joel Clark reports that currently only equities are meaningfully supported by the handful of technology vendors active in this space, although TCA support for fixed-income instruments is just around the corner.
Buy-side traders are increasingly asking their employers to make new investments in applications designed to measure transaction cost analysis (TCA). The technology has made big advances in recent years, driven by the global demand for proof of best…
Gaining the Edge
Technologists are all too familiar with the mantras of the trading desk heads: "I want it faster" and "I want it better."
Paying for the Grid
If there's one word buzzing through the financial services community's datacenters these days, it's "grid." Most investment banks can't get enough of them and many already have computing and data grids numbering in the tens of thousands of nodes, while…
Corporate Actions:Engaging the Issuers
Automation
Buy-In or Sell Out?
Data Sponsors
Defending the Title
COVER STORY
Hoffman Drives TSXPress
WATERS PROFILE
Taming the lion - a panel discussion focussing on the business drivers and technology trends as firms gear up for Mifid compliance
The November deadline for complying with the European Commission's Mifid regulation is fast approaching, although you wouldn't know it gauging from the general apathy shown by UK-based buy- and sell-side organisations surrounding the directive. Not all…
The buy side's emerging beacon - the Middle East is fast becoming one of the most prominent emerging markets for the investment management industry
While Wall Street and the City compete as the world's top financial centres, the Middle East has seen massive growth in recent years, and is becoming increasingly important to the investment management industry and the technology community that supports…
Boom time for vendors and service providers
Roundtable
Plugging the infrastructure gaps
A new impartial report from JWG-IT Group, the London-based think-tank for EU-driven IT change in financial services, reveals 'widespread gaps' in current infrastructure, which financial institutions need to urgently plug in order to meet key MiFID…