Opinion
The Value Of Sharing
Collaboration and cooperation, along with openness to innovative ways of handling data, are valuable assets that data operations professionals should be willing to use.
Parsing Fintech's Whimsical Name Game
Tim muses on a subject—company names—that has confounded him for most of his time covering financial technology. Does a strange moniker make a difference?
Data. Broadcast Yourself.
While YouTube might not have any direct links to the financial services industry, Brian Sentance argues that the social media phenomenon’s model, which allows users to control the information they publish and consume, is already emerging across the…
Lessons of Facebook's Overreach
Financial industry firms should recognize the value of data they collect and analyze, and tread more carefully as a result
Innovation, Singularities and Saturation
Taking cliché out of the equation.
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Opening Cross: Declare Your Independence from Traditional Data Uses
While the majority of Inside Market Data’s coverage has traditionally centered around the use of data to directly support trading activities—such as the transmission of prices via datafeeds or terminal displays to traders and trading applications—and…
Fatca Goes Live—Massive Mess, or Much Ado About Nothing?
This week's deadline for compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or Fatca as it's better known, came and went with a relative whimper—if also with a little purple prose. What to make of it, Tim wonders?
Fatca: The End of the Beginning
Practitioners have spent many months preparing for key aspects of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act that come into effect this week. But few will be able to breathe a sigh of relief when the US anti-tax evasion measure goes live, as similar…
How the West Was Won
In most asset classes, electronic trading is beginning to win the day for regulators. James looks at how e-trading encourages oversight, as well as innovation.
Opening Cross: Forget ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid.’ Think KIDD—’Keep it Diversified, Dummy"
The market data business is increasingly governed by the need to diversify to respond to market and investment trends. Trading firms seeking exposure to new opportunities diversify the datasets they consume in search of the one that will give them an…
July 2014: Beware the Snake Oil Salesman
The importance of technology in the capital markets cannot be understated, but when it comes to IBOR implementations, Victor says firms should be wary of vendors peddling all tech and no support.
Max Bowie: Data Wizards Must Be Ready For an Unexpected Journey
The level of innovation among providers of data tools and services is often measured by the new products they create. But Max says innovation also takes place at the end-user level as firms find increasingly creative ways put those products to new and…
Michael Shashoua: Critical Mass
Even as data quality and governance work becomes more demonstrably valuable for firms, the time that has passed since the 2008 events that spurred rules changes could be eroding its momentum. Michael hears professionals’ reasons for staying the course.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: In Search of Spanish Treasure
Bad banks have gained preference in recent years both as a way to unwind toxic assets and as entities for buy-side firms to invest in. With each opportunity, the industry has sorted and implemented these mechanisms faster and faster—often with outsourced…
James Rundle: How the West Was Won
In most asset classes, electronic trading is beginning to win the day for regulators. James looks at how e-trading encourages oversight, as well as innovation.
Fixed Income's Dead? Long Live Its Technology
SEC Commissioner Mary Jo White hinted last Friday that fixed income might be the next technology rabbit hole the Commission jumps down. That seems like good news for the buy side—but is it?
The Singapore Sling, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Conferences
APTAS 2014 and BST Asia lead this week's coverage.
Opening Cross: What’s the Most Important Tool in Your Box?
The most useful article in my toolbox isn’t a wrench or a multi-tool: it’s a magic potion originally invented to support the space program, known today simply as WD40. Though its inventors may not have envisaged it becoming a household name, the spray…
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Personnel Choices
Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff
Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying ... IBOR
The investment book of record (IBOR) made its way back into discussion this week both in conversations at Sifma's technology conference, and in Waters' pages. The result, Tim says, was equal parts colorful and enlightening.