Opinion
Is The Pricing Right?
Pricing and valuations professionals are starting to advocate the value of spending to ensure transparency of data sourcing
Wealth Management to Get a Tech Facelift?
The Bär-BAML deal may point to a sea change in the wealth management space as IT plays a large role in the acquisition.
To Merge, Or Not To Merge?
That is the question.
No Time For A Leap Into The Unknown
The idea of practitioners and data vendors sharing the burden of regulatory responsibility sounds attractive, but end-users have valid concerns about disrupting the status quo they often criticize
Firms Still Grappling with Mobile
As people escape on vacation, the issue of mobile technology is a timely one.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Australian regulators get ready for a tough line on robot trading.
Open Platform: Don’t Get ‘Owned’ By Data Ownership
The future of financial firms’ market data organizations will be defined by effective governance of external data and proprietary prices. But lack of standards and myriad disparate policies is creating opacity, confusion and potential liabilities, says…
Mixed Messages About LEI
Has the Financial Stability Board allowed enough time with its March 2013 deadline for the legal entity identifier (LEI) to set up local authorities, much less actually assign all the LEIs, as was once expected?
Sell-Side Tech Glitches Provide Lessons for the Buy Side
As firms grapple with decreased IT budgets and work forces, we could see more headlines about problems that can be attributed to technology glitches.
Whatever You Do, Don't Push the Button
What in the world is going on in financial IT?
Rinse, Repeat?
Will the industry ever get past the same corporate actions arguments? Aite Group’s Virginie O’Shea points to Italian and Japanese CSDs as examples worthy of study
Solving a Solvency II Dilemma
European regulator's announcement that an important code in its capital adequacy directive will not be harmonized through all countries could undermine the regulation itself
Knight Debacle Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny—and Caution
In the wake of Knight Capital's disastrous week, Anthony says the industry needs to avoid reactionary measures, and focus on the real problems.
What Went Wrong at Knight?
Everyone knows there was a bug in Knight Capital's trading system. The question is whether that bug was in the machine, or out of it.
Open Platform: A Risk-Intelligent Bank?
In a period of heightened regulation resulting from the financial crisis, banks are facing more intense scrutiny than ever. History dictates that regulators will always be behind the curve, taking a reactive approach to risk management. With this in mind…
Knight Tech Glitch Leads Circuit Breakers to Kick In
About 150 stocks were possibly affected; five triggered circuit breakers.
August 2012: Armageddon? What Armageddon?
So far, 2012 hasn't produced the avalanche of heavy-handed regulations that the industry feared it would. Instead, Victor says the upcoming US election necessitates a more measured approach.
Anthony Malakian: Wall Street's People Problem
Financial IT has witnessed significant changes in recent years as cloud, mobility and Big Data have become the parlance of the day. In order to satisfactorily address these paradigm shifts, Anthony says that Wall Street needs more of a grassroots…
Jake Thomases: A Step in the Right Direction
It’s not often that when it comes to introducing new regulations, the SEC garners appreciable industry support. But as Jake explains, one of the regulator’s most recent pieces of legislation affecting large swaths of the US financial services industry,…
Michael Shashoua: Data-Handling Storms
At the recent Toronto Financial Information Summit, participants considered whether analytics, visualization, or management and governance techniques deserve the most attention as the industry seeks to comply with new regulation and standards. Michael…
Max Bowie: When Competition Fails, Data Quality and Cost Suffer
In any healthy marketplace, the price of any service is always under pressure—if not from bodies that regulate fees, then from market forces and the price consumers are willing to pay. But with the Libor rate-fixing scandal raising questions over data…