Opinion
Michael Shashoua: Confounding Interests
Following the twists and turns of the legal entity identifier story, Michael finds clashing regulatory authorities, political maneuvering, and attempts by outside interests to sort through the wreckage.
James Rundle: Prizing Open Markets
The introduction of competition, according to capitalist doctrine, is a pre-requisite for establishing an efficient and growing economy. But for the capital markets, James says, plans to open trading landscapes to new venues come with their own…
The Secrets of CDO Success
Naming chief data officers is starting to catch on among financial services firms, but it remains to be seen what authority and effectiveness they will have. CDOs will need cooperation from both C-level colleagues and firms' staffs
September 2013: Cheap is Expensive
The proverb, "buy cheap, buy twice," is known to pretty much all English speakers, and, as Victor explains, its use is particularly pertinent to the capital markets, especially when it comes to system selection.
IRD's Senior Reporter on LEI Opportunities for Vendors
While the public sector continues its work on establishing the legal entity identifier, vendors are deciding how they can use the identifier to create new products and services
We Weren’t in Kansas to Begin With
A measured approach, in all senses of the phrase, tends to produce better results.
The BST Awards are Upon us Once More
For the seventh year, entries for the Buy-Side Technology Awards are now open. Anthony explains what the judges are looking for when examining nomination forms.
Identifying LEI Opportunities
While many people take a much-needed vacation this month, regulators and vendors continue to make important decisions about the legal entity identifier
SEFs Are Only One Part of the Swaps Equation
When it comes to untangling the emergence of swap execution facilities (SEFs), it's sometimes easy to feel like Theseus navigating the labyrinth. Whether the regulators play the parts of Daedalus and Icarus, or the Minotaur, of course, depends on your…
Burning Issues: For Exchanges, it's Diversify or Die
Editor Max Bowie takes a well-earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss how exchanges are diversifying their offerings in light of falling market data revenues.
Aleynikov's Ripple Effect
This week Michael Lewis brought a national spotlight to the Goldman Sachs case against Sergey Aleynikov. Will this change the way programmers conduct business in the future?
Light and Shade In LEI Outlook
Shifts in legal entity identifier guidelines attract attention to the differences between countries on how to implement the identification standard
IRD's Editor on Catalyzing Corporate Actions
Industry demand or a regulatory action will be needed to push through automation of corporate actions processing, an effort that has not yet reached critical mass in the industry
Marking Your Own Homework
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) sent a request for a review into the structure of the exchange self-regulatory model (SRO) last week, in a move that may force regulators to take an enhanced role in market oversight.
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
JOBS Act Implications Significant, Just Not for Technology
The JOBS Act could present new opportunities─and challenges─for the hedge fund industry, but Anthony questions whether there's a significant IT angle to be found.
Open Platform: Planning for the Inevitable with T2S
Harmonization of the European securities settlement landscape is gathering pace. The single settlement platform Target2-Securities (T2S) and the forthcoming CSD Regulation (CSD-R) – which could impose T+2 settlement Europe-wide and require an electronic…
Battling Inertia In Corporate Actions
Automation efforts in corporate actions processing have stayed at stagnant levels, according to Inside Reference Data webcast surveys. Industry professionals are looking for a catalyst to spur improvements
Eze Software Group Enjoys Stellar Six Months
Six months is a long time in the life of a software company. Take the Eze Software Group as an example: The fledgling buy-side focused vendor – born in January this year after $56 billion private investment firm TPG stumped up the capital to acquire…
IRD's Editor on Harnessing Big Data
Author Douglas Rushkoff advocates "personifying" the management of big data. What path will the financial industry take?
Open Platform: Value at Risk - The New Data Challenge
Following the financial crisis, the industry is reevaluating how it uses and calculates Value at Risk. But more accurate and frequent VaR needs the ability to capture and analyze more frequent underlying data, requiring a new approach to risk data…
The Magic Roundabout
Policy and regulatory discussions often end up eating themselves.