Opinion
106 Shopping Days 'Til Christmas
The arrival of the latest Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue in my mailbox last week reminds me that Christmas is barely three-and-a-half months away, and that there must be someone who wants an animatronic singing Elvis, a DVD projector in the shape of R2D2,…
The Heat is On
If you managed to get away during the summer—whether you needed a parasol in Panama or a brolly in Blighty—we hope IMD 's readers had a good break. Because with market data issues showing no sign of any summer lull, you're going to need it.
The Hard Way
Accelerating data volume growth coupled with a relentless drive for lower latency is outstripping performance increases in the software infrastructures that financial firms rely on to handle market data. As a result, infrastructure architects are turning…
EDM: Moving From Concept to Reality
Michael Atkin calls for those in charge of EDM to deliver on their promises
In With the New
EDITOR'S LETTER
Editor’s letter: Get ready to lose some friends
That's what Matthew Crabbe, managing director of Incisive Media's financial risk management and trading technology division, advised me when we recently discussed BST 's plans to launch its inaugural Buy-Side Technology Awards in November this year. To…
Business standards time
Imagine that tomorrow there were no traffic laws. No speed limits, no need to signal for your turns, no right of way and no reason to stop you from drinking and driving. For our readers in New York, let's abolish the 'conceal and carry' laws for handguns…
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Simon Morris and Ash Saluja, partners at CMS Cameron McKenna, look at Mifid and its various permutations for buy-side organisations from a legal perspective.
Bandwidth's silver bullet
The expectations of regulators and investors of best execution are forcing broker/dealers on both sides of the Atlantic to evaluate their connectivity and supporting infrastructure. John Panzica argues that ethernet technology has the potential to…
Thinning the herd
War isn't pretty and neither, so it seems, is running a leveraged investment strategy with significant credit exposures in the face of a precipitous mortgage market downturn. The list of hedge fund casualties continues to climb in the wake of the US sub…
Break Time
Max Bowie is on vacation. Due to the summer break, Inside Market Data will not publish on Aug. 27. His Opening Cross column will return in the next issue, which will be published on Monday, Sept. 3.
The Calm After the Storm?
The tornado that hit New York last week left not only a wake of felled trees, downed power lines and damaged homes, but also people stranded, late, confused, and struggling to reach their destination. What immediately became clear is that New York City's…
Fair Game
Just in case you missed it, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. last week gained the backing of sufficient members of Dow Jones' controlling Bancroft family to support a takeover of the company—or maybe you read about it in The Wall Street Journal or on your Dow…
Organizational Alignment: The EDM Keystone
As interest in enterprise data management increases, so too does the importance of alignment. GoldenSource's Fritz McCormick reports
The Race to Lay the Golden Copy Egg
By building a golden source security master, firms can realize cost savings through reductions in data management issues fuelled by improved data quality, say BusinessEdge Solutions' Rachel Haines and Jignesh Prajapati. Here, they outline the best…
Below the Surface
EDITOR'S LETTER
Editor’s letter: As dull as ditchwater
Few would argue that data management is as dull as ditchwater. It is, it has been, and in my opinion, it always will be. But efficient and logical data management is also important – very important. So much so that poor data management – which, for the…
Beachy keen
BST Columnist Phil Albinus prepares for his August vacation by taking a tongue-in-cheek look at a number of buy-side technology issues likely to be addressed in the second half of 2007, including preparing Mifid ‘alibis’ in anticipation of your firm’s…
The Sweet Sound of Success
Somewhere over the drone of the air conditioner struggling to keep pace with the New York summer, I hear another faint sound…. Do you hear it? It sounds like the rustle of crisp dollar bills. It's the sound of the dealmakers rubbing their hands together…
A Fox in the Henhouse
Dear John: By the time you read this, I may be gone. We had some good times, but it had to end someday, and I've met another man with lots of money and an exotic accent. Love always, Dow Jones.
Beneficiary-Driven Solutions
Business transformation is akin to making a silk purse from a sow's ear— long pursued, but elusive. The trite "it is about people, not technology" masks a hard reality. To reap the potentially rich harvest envisioned by major business shifts demands a…
Waiting for the Summer Lull
Activity tends to tail off during the summer vacation months, leading to a drawing-out of project timeframes. However, this busy edition of IMD reads like a copy-book of all the trends currently grabbing headlines in the market data industry—from low…