Opinion
How Long Can You Do It in the Dark?
BEFORE THE SPIN
The Nine-Year Itch
ON BALANCE
A Look Back to a Horrible Day
BEFORE THE SPIN
Five Years Later
ON BALANCE
Time for an IT-Revenge Clause?
BEFORE THE SPIN
Papa's Got a Brand-New Brand
ON BALANCE
Reference Data Will Support Next Generation Investment Strategies
Information vendors must offer new ways of presenting and analyzing data if they are to keep ahead of the pack, writes Thomas Aubrey
Scrubbing Bubbles
Managing legal entity data has become a top-10 priority. And as the quality of this data is paramount, demand for new projects to cleanse and manage it has escalated. By Adam Honoré
Moving On, Looking Back
EDITOR'S LETTER
Can’t hedge funds and corporations just get along?
Managing investor relations has become a crucial aspect of the buy side, not least because of the levels of influence investors can exert under extreme circumstances. Thomson Financial’s Chris Schelling outlines the challenges facing corporations in…
The evolution of selective outsourcing for hedge funds
As the fast growing hedge fund sector delivers increasingly complex products and services, the selective outsourcing of non-core IT functions is becoming more attractive, especially to those organisations employing innovative technology to stay ahead of…
A New Response to the Terrorist Threat
BEFORE THE SPIN
Lucky, Lucky, Lucky
ON BALANCE
How to Get Fired in Time for Armageddon
BEFORE THE SPIN
It Takes a Village
ON BALANCE
Get Ready for a Living Hell
BEFORE THE SPIN
Same Names, Same Themes
ON BALANCE
Raising the Bar on Standards Development
Establishing standards remains a top priority for operational executives and senior management alike, but few have faith in the current development process. Mike Atkin asks what needs to be done to get things back on track
No Rest for the Weary
EDITOR'S LETTER
A new holy grail of application architecture?
There are many ways to build and deploy financial services applications, but is there one approach that offers both high performance and fast time-to-market, with limited risk? Could such an approach actually offer the end-user – traders, portfolio…