Opinion
Max Bowie: Market Data’s a Dirty Job, But Someone’s Got to Do It
After the recent arrival of his twins, Max argues that market data execs are the nannies of the data industry.
Michael Shashoua: Stressing the Stress-Test
Banks' efforts to date when complying with BCBS 239 risk data aggregation principles have been underwhelming.
Opening Cross: Coopetition: Exposing You to a Bigger Audience, Or Just Leaving You Exposed?
Keep your friends close, and your partners closer.
Breaking the Bottleneck
Gaining insight from unstructured data is necessary to understand risks
April 2015: Feeling Lucky?
Can capital markets CISOs afford to sit on their hands as cyber attacks increase in quantity and sophistication?
Cyber's Delphic Dilemma
Reflecting on a day's immersion in security issues.
What's the Point of Stress Testing Without Granularity?
Anthony questions CCP stress-testing guidelines.
Opening Cross: Simplicity Is the Best Policy
Every business is ultimately a sausage factory of sorts, differentiated by quality and complexity.
Time for Apple Watch ... Already?
It was probably inevitable, but can fintech make it work?
Final Thoughts on FIA Boca 2015
From portfolio compression to outages to CLOBs, some emergent themes from FIA Boca.
Opening Cross: Fresh Season, Fresh Faces, Fresh Ideas
Regular readers will know that I like to (over) use metaphors to make a point, and one old chestnut I return to again and again is Formula One racing. Though most often employed by myself and others to illustrate low-latency issues, the sport—which gets…
The Sleeping Bag Solution
Innovation from the field of medicine provides lessons for financial operations
HFT's Oceanic Moment
Could the future of high speed trading be seafaring?
IRD's Editor on BCBS 239 Progress
Firms taking action, even as architects of the principles prove slow to offer guidance
The Challenges of Patching
Patching is a challenge, but vitally important.
Time To Play Ball With Data
Centralization figures in several data management trends and developments
BAAM or Bust?
Blackstone, DE Shaw thicken the ranks of buy-side tech providers. Will Arcesium flourish?
Max Bowie: Hidden Indicators within the Data Itself
Max Bowie argues that analyzing data supply and demand might yield indications of future market movements.
Michael Shashoua: Shadow Play
Michael Shashoua looks at dark data and suggests its value is based on 'meaning' residing within large datasets.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: Fifty Percent, Give or Take
Tim Murray picks apart the recent SS&C-Advent tie-up and speculates that SS&C might have paid way over the odds.
Anthony Malakian: Remember, the ETF Space is Still Evolving
The rise in popularity of fixed-income ETFs will continue, despite there being 'issues' that need to be addressed.
March 2015: A Necessary Evil
SS&C Technologies' recent acquisition of Advent Software has the industry scratching its head.
Opening Cross: Dealing with a Diaperful of Data Do-Do
Market data's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it...
Sticking The Landing On BCBS 239
Readiness for risk stress tests may seem to lag, but data managers are making plans