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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…

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…

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