Opinion
June 2016: Poignancy and People Power
While it’s important to focus on the technology that drives our industry, it’s similarly important to acknowledge the human aspects.
MDW Special: Highlighting the Best Innovation Cities
Where does your city rank?
Opening Cross: What Can Financial Information Learn from Formula One?
The intensive data analysis performed during a modern Formula One race has more in common with a trading floor than the "gentlemen racers" of old.
Golden Copy: What We Heard At NAFIS
Robust debate on how to manage and work with data
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 18: Dos and Don'ts for PR People
Dan and Anthony breakdown what makes a good media relations person and what doesn't.
Keeping Up With DeFrancesco
Lots of important things are happening over the next few months for Sell-Side Technology editor Dan DeFrancesco.
The Buy Side Slowly Moves Toward Utilities, Managed Services
Mifid II, Fatca and new margin requirements are helping institutional players to see the benefits of centralized services.
Euronext's Price of Independence
Euronext will soon find itself up against an exchange powerhouse and has established an M&A war chest to bolster its options.
Opening Cross: Balancing and Evolving with Your Greatest Asset
A company's greatest asset isn't the products it creates, or even how it uses them; it's the people who create them.
Golden Copy: What To Listen For At NAFIS
How the industry directs increased emphasis on reference data will be evident
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 17: Regulatory Landscape, Fixed Income, Blockchain
Dan and Anthony talk regulations, fixed income and blockchain.
Better Balance Needed to Combat 'Regulatory Fatigue'
Regulators need to be more concerned about properly spacing regulations as opposed to simply pushing their mandate.
Distributed Ledger-Technology: Fingers will be Burnt
A lot has already been written about blockchain and distributed-ledger technology, but Victor believes this is only the start. If anything, he says, the hype will accelerate.
Machine Learning Could Address Fixed-Income Liquidity Woes
Industry experts recently discussed the potential for machine-learning techniques to help the buy side and sell side connect.
Golden Copy: Looming Blockchain and Disclosure Mountains
Importance of interoperability rises as distributed ledger uses expand; GDPR rules have a broader aim
Opening Cross: ‘Key’ Issues: Major to Minor, Minor to Major
If the sheer entertainment value of TV’s Lip-Synch Battle doesn’t have you singing along and mastering your pitch changes and switching between major and minor keys, then take my word for it: watching The Rock lip-synching to Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 16: Sifma Ops, Nasdaq, Fixed Income
Dan talks about his trip to Miami while Anthony discusses fixed income.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: King Holds Court
Write-ups by Victor Anderson, Anthony Malakian, Dan DeFrancesco and John Brazier.
Hot Topics at Sifma Ops: T+2, CAT, Blockchain
Three topics kept cropping up during panels at Sifma's annual operations conference.
Dan DeFrancesco: Blockchain, Innovation Labs and Sorting Through the Madness
Taking a look at hype versus reality.
Michael Shashoua: Rising Sun
Japan, previously insular in its approach to data operations—and interactions with other markets in the data realm—is beginning to exert leadership within the Asia-Pacific region.
Max Bowie: A Whine About Wine (But Really About Data)
Wine and data...a natural pairing.
Anthony Malakian: As Blockchain Builds, the Buy Side Watches … and Waits
Like his colleague Dan DeFrancesco, Anthony believes that blockchain is overhyped right now. But once this distributed-ledger technology starts to prove its worth, the buy side will buy in, and that’s when things will get really interesting.
May 2016: The Back Office Must Be Loving This
Fintech is all about the front office, but Victor says blockchain could shine the spotlight on the back office.