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A Little Spring Cleaning

Now that spring has finally arrived in the northern hemisphere, it is the perfect time to do a little spring cleaning-opening up the windows, airing out the house and hosing down the garden furniture. With dual announcements of new processors from Intel …

Opening Cross: Pumping Up the Volume Isn't Anti-Social

Do social media applications have a place in the world of market data? Those re-engineering their applications to resemble Web technologies that today's generation of professionals just entering the market will be familiar with might say yes. But can you…

Best sourcing: buying in what you can't do without

In the wake of the downturn, financial institutions are relying on their trading and compliance technology to support their businesses in more ways than ever before. They need it to be robust enough to deal with the rigours of an increasingly complex…

Hedge fund fault lines

Currency speculators and their benefactors in the financial industry have been getting what they would call a 'bum rap' lately following the Greek debt crisis. But bad press may prove a mere tip of the iceberg if recent sabre-rattling by certain European…

Overcoming the Options Dilemma

As more institutional investors open their portfolios to equity options, sell-side broker-dealers face the challenge of executing instructional-sized orders in a market that is typically less liquid than equities.

Opening Cross: "Fragmented" Doesn't Mean "Broken"

This issue of Inside Market Data should be accompanied by our latest special report on Fragmentation (also available on our Web site), which includes a spirited Q&A on the changes to European equity markets since the introduction of the recent Markets in…

Peeking Over the Garden Wall

About 15 months ago, I started to wonder when the industry would begin seeing third-party compute clouds that would meet the rigorous demands of the financial services industry. I'm still waiting.

Opening Cross: Getting a Head Start

We make a big deal about speed and latency these days, but it's worth remembering the adage that power is nothing without control-and specifically, in capital markets, speed is nothing without the best data and smartest strategies behind it to give you a…

What's Old Is New Again

If there is one truism in the markets it is that everything is cyclical. The length of the cycles may vary, but hang around long enough and you will see the same trend, or variation of it, come around again.

Speed Wars: A New Hope

In the original Star Wars , the actors bicker as Han Solo programs a computer to "make the jump to light speed" and outrun an enemy spaceship. Though writer-director George Lucas' dialogue was as wooden as many of the pre-CGI models and special effects,…

Assessing the Interdependencies

The banking crisis provided the industry with a wake-up call, especially in relation to the need for an understanding of the risks associated with OTC derivatives. But this is no easy task, explains London Market Systems' Martin Sexton

Bonds: Shaken, Not Stirred

After the credit crunch and ensuing financial crisis, bond trading is still attracting interest. According to FINRA, which last week added agency debt trade data to its TRACE feed, there is $6 billion in outstanding US corporate debt, and $3 billion in…

Canada Heats Up

Although Vancouver may have been too warm for this year's Winter Olympics, Toronto and its financial markets are definitely heating up as more and more high-frequency traders are seeking arbitrage opportunities between issues dual-listed in the Canadian…

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