Opinion
A Bold Resolution
EDITOR'S LETTER
Buy Side Bolsters Controls
OPEN PLATFORM
Intelligence + Governance = Survival
Financial organizations are slowly recognizing that a dedicated commitment to data quality is essential to ensuring accurate risk planning and business process returns, says Harte-Hanks Trillium Software's Ed Wrazen
Editor's Letter - What's in a name?
Seeing the financial services industry is so fond of acronyms, here's one that describes the state of the hedge fund industry: FUBAR (Fouled Up Beyond All Repair). It's not particularly refined, but few would argue that it's not pertinent.
Insults and injuries
Hedge fund and investment managers could have had a better start to 2009, but that apparently isn't on the cards for the industry.
The party's over
One of the by-products of the ongoing global financial meltdown is the likely cessation of self-regulation for buy-side institutions.
Idiosyncrasies of counterparty risk
Out of all the skeletons now hanging (thankfully) in the 2008 closet - from Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns to Jérôme Kerviel, Samuel Israel III and, of course, Bernard Madoff - one lesson should have been universally learnt: when you're investing money…
That Was The Year That Was
If you're reading this on the date of publication (only three shopping days left ‘til Christmas!), then you're either a big fan of Inside Market Data , or you're stuck at your job trying to balance your firm's budgets with its data needs for next year,…
So Long to All That
Like most in the industry, I'm glad that 2008 is finally winding down. Although I'm not eagerly awaiting 2009, I believe most of us are well braced for the coming annus horribilis . Money can be made as a bull or a bear, but it's the uncertainty that is…
The Secret Is Knowing Where to Look
It's perhaps not the most appropriate film to be thinking of during the holiday season, but I can't seem to get Monty Python's Life of Brian out of my head. I'm thinking specifically of when Eric Idle sings, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" at…
Making Measurement Work, Making Ends Meet
This week, Inside Market Data contains a special report on the importance of low-latency market data in today's modern trading environment. Yet in the same issue, we detail the problems at latency monitoring software vendor Trading Metrics, which is…
Are We Ready for Low-Tech Terrorism?
Over this past Thanksgiving holiday, instead of watching the traditional football games, my eyes were glued to the cable news networks and the horrible events that unfolded on the other side of the planet in Mumbai.
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The appearance of Santa Claus outside the New York Stock Exchange last week alongside NYSE chief executive Duncan Niederauer for NYSE's annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony was no coincidence. Christmas certainly came early last week for NYSE, in the…
Crunch Time for Data Management
The age-old challenge of managing market data becomes even harder in an increasingly hostile and complex environment. Ron Troy, former associate director of market data at WestLB in New York, sets out the key issues, and offers some suggestions for…
Get Off My Cloud
OPINION
WTO Enters the Forbidden Kingdom
OPINION
Concurrency: Take Control or Fail
OPEN PLATFORM
Making BPCM Work
OPEN PLATFORM
The Year of Living Dangerously
EDITOR'S LETTER
Decision Time
Automating the election process presents the biggest opportunity for firms to reduce corporate actions-related losses, says Alan Parsons, securities product manager, CheckFree
Editor's Letter - Carrying on regardless
It's been a tough year. Of that there is no doubt. And if the City boys are even moderately accurate in their 2009 predictions, next year is set to be even tougher, which means, for the time being at least, there's not much good news on the horizon. But…
Head in the clouds
By the time the glasses were raised and the soup was served at last month's Buy-Side Technology Awards lunch, I don't think I was alone in sensing a slight air of tension in the dining room of London's Lanesborough hotel. That wasn't because of the…