Opinion
Kilburn's Corner: The Devil's in the Detail
Every three months at Inside Market Data, we report on the quarterly financial results of the world's stock exchanges. This time round, I had the not-so-enviable task of wading through the marketing spiel in the announcements to dig out the only piece of…
Getting A Full Report
Demand for more complete and well-prepared data reporting could lead one to consider collaborative efforts that point the way to better data reporting
Options? In Texas? Play That Again For Me ...
Tim reflects on his recent trip to Austin and the Options Industry Conference, and introduces next month's cover profile, the first of its kind for the magazine.
The Cost of Credit
Features from this month's issue lead coverage for the first week of May.
Open Platform: Big Data, Little Urgency
Bombarded by hype about Big Data, financial firms feel pressured to adopt Big Data solutions. But, depending on their needs, firms should think twice before throwing out existing data warehouses, says Jonas Olsson, founder and chief executive of Swedish…
Opening Cross: Testing Times? Consider Lifelong Data Learning
From the day we are born until the day we die, there are always opportunities to learn something new. Once upon a time, your learning largely ended whenever you left school, and training meant learning how not to get killed or maimed by whatever…
May 2014: Regulators’ Arbitrary Line in the Sand
The high-frequency trading debate is raging, thanks to Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. But Victor says the answer is not to rely on regulations to ensure fairness.
James Rundle: A Different View of Data
While regulators struggle to adapt to the volume and variety of data they receive from market participants, James examines other ways of looking at systemic risk issues.
Anthony Malakian: Can 10,000 Needles Rouse a Bear Economy?
Thanks to a new three-tiered economic plan and relative stability at the top of the Japanese government, there is some hope that Japan will jolt its sluggish economy—though many still have their doubts. But Anthony says that hope and stability are…
Michael Shashoua: Data Quality Beacon
The trade-off between data sourcing transparency and confidential business interests makes it difficult to pursue higher quality data through cooperative or open efforts. Michael points to an Omgeo initiative that is proving an exception to this rule,…
Max Bowie: Does HFT ‘Debate’ Detract from True Tech Innovation?
HFT has been grabbing the headlines, but, Max wonders, is it merely hijacking the limelight from companies that deserve greater recognition for new developments?
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Rubbing Shoulders with the People’s Champion
This year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 15 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, witnessed a number of new firms in the winners’ circle, the upending of one of the financial technology industry’s most celebrated names,…
Crowdsourcing Makes A Giant Leap
The idea of crowdsourcing reference data processing and management work got a big boost this week, with a venture fund and former Thomson Reuters CEO lending their support to provider WorkFusion
Batteries Not Included
Japanese exchanges and the Waters Rankings lead this week's coverage.
Opening Cross: Innovation Isn’t Just About Being Faster; It’s About Being Smarter and Better
The recent furor over high-frequency trading prompted by Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys has led many to think that the only source of innovation in financial markets is making things faster, so that some kind of banker-sandman phantom can steal Granny’s…
Navigating Data Transparency
Data managers should confront the question of how to use new technologies and methods to make data transparent even under proprietary processes and climates
Divine HFT Providence?
Public investors are about as important as institutional clients come for buy-side shops. Tim wonders what we should make of the class-action civil suit brought this week by one of them—the City of Providence, Rhode Island—alleging high-frequency…
Rain, Snow and Architecture
Natas coverage and European regulatory efforts lead this week's coverage.
Moving Mission-Critical Functions to the Cloud
Anthony believes that more firms are moving mission critical functions to the cloud. As they do, though, it's important to note that there's a major difference between a public and private cloud.
Finding A Key For Data Quality
In the field of standing settlement instructions, Omgeo appears to have found a way to improve upon data quality by opening sourcing and access to its database
Curing What Ails US Equities: More 'Law and Order,' Less 'X-Files'
Tim consults a pair of lobbyists for their take on the Flash Boys kerfuffle and straightforward microstructure improvements that can be made today. In the process, he also fits in two hopelessly dated television references.