Opinion
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…
Open Platform: When Applying for Opportunities, Find Opportunities to Apply Relationships
The job market for financial technology and data experts is improving as market forces create new opportunities. However, individuals seeking to capitalize on any upswing must be ready to approach the job hunt in new ways and understand how their talents…
As We Predicted
Swift, and the DTCC, scored a win supporting their prospects as LEI administrators by gaining the CFTC's designation to run its CICI identifier standard
Everybody Has a Story to Tell
Anthony takes a second to acknowledge that he's not a great ping pong player, but Fadi Kaddoura is.
Power Play
Alternative technologies can provide the future of financial services
Open Season For Instrument Codes?
Proprietary instrument codes, while now more open to outside users, may not become as standardized as the legal entity identifier - or will they? Some uncertainty is now in the mix for the LEI with a loosening of its federated administration model
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2012: Entries Open Monday
The winners in this year's BST Awards will be announced on November 2 in London.
Fear and Loathing in London
There have been notable industry tech failures recently, but what about the regulators?
Seeking Answers For Data Sourcing and Sorting
At the Toronto Financial Information Summit, attendees and panelists considered how to make their data management more effective, whether through analytics, visualization or otherwise
Let’s Talk About Solar Flares & the Destruction of Wall Street
Have you heard that a solar storm next year might just wipe out all communications systems and hobble Wall Street? But, hey, no need to panic or anything.
Business Continuity is Dead, Long Live Business Continuity
Regulators begin to wake up to cloud risks.
Summertime Blues
The reference data operations industry braces itself for the next wave of regulation represented by Solvency II
Lies, Damn Lies, and Surveys
Anthony says most survey numbers are bogus—so are they totally worthless? Not exactly.
But We’re Not Dead, Yet?
Banks submit their living wills to regulators, and move on swiftly.
James Rundle: Whale for Breakfast
JPMorgan’s losses from the ‘Whalegate’ fiasco have reignited debate on the Volcker Rule. Risk metrics, or the alteration thereof, are being blamed for this latest example of trading malfeasance, but James says it’s continued vagueness over regulation…