Opinion
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome (Back) to Sifma!
Anthony wants to know how you are going to take in the Sifma event this year. Vote in the WatersTechnology poll!
Here Comes The LEI Flood
Comments, actions and discussions concerning the legal entity identifier have increased and will continue to do so as key organizations make decisions and recommendations now and in the near future
Don't Go Small on Big Data
Anthony says Big Data’s potential profits are too great for buy-side firms to ignore, and they should be leaders in developing technology that can harness it.
Shock and Schadenfreude: Tech Woes Plague Exchanges
Facebook’s IPO has been a drawn-out nightmare for Nasdaq.
Open Platform: Heading for the Cloud
The cloud has been around for sufficient time for its presence to have permeated every technology-reliant industry vertical. But as Hani Suleiman explains, the financial services industry is way behind the curve in terms of its adoption and must get its…
Open Platform: Cloud Is the New Normal
The rise in popularity of the cloud—especially across the buy side where asset managers are looking to do more with less, while simultaneously shrinking their technology spending—has been nothing short of astronomic. A recent TowerGroup forecast predicts…
Michael Shashoua: Stability Board See-Saw
The ISO standards organization, at the behest of the Financial Stability Board, removed Swift as the registration authority for the legal entity identifier. Michael thinks the industry may be left wondering what the board intends to do in setting a…
Anthony Malakian: Hope in One Hand ...
Even as the first wave of requirements for Form PF rules approach, Anthony wonders if it makes any sense for buy-side firms to throw money at solving regulatory demands in an election year when so many rules have already been delayed or scrapped.
Max Bowie: Speed Is Nothing Without Control
With the Sifma technology show upon us, vendors are showcasing their wares—often with a focus on speed and throughput. But in a regulatory environment placing greater emphasis on risk checks and compliance, firms are also expecting these solutions to…
Jake Thomases: Blissfully Ignorant
At a meeting of the Secret Science Club, Jake stumbled across one very smart man who celebrates when he doesn’t have the answers. Wall Street, on the other hand, is full of very smart people who get paid for nothing but answers. Academia never seemed so…
June 2012: Terrifying Stuff
Victor says that despite reservations about cloud-based technologies, they will ultimately surpass their in-house counterparts.
Outsourcing and Cloud Are NOT the Same Thing
Anthony worries that when the regulators come calling, they may start mixing together the strategy of outsourcing with the tool of cloud technology.
Playing Gotcha With LEI
A week full of decision-making on LEI puts the ball back in the US CFTC's court
All Change, Please, All Change
Musical chairs abounds at the top of major sell-side institutions.
Several Trends Emerge─From Clouds to Algos─at BST's Euro Summit
Rather than being original, Anthony plays the role of blogger and links to other reporters' pieces of hard work, with the two main topics being cloud computing and high-frequency trading.
Instability Board
The question on many people's minds in the financial industry is what the Financial Stability Board intends for the LEI standard, following its removal of Swift as registration authority
Trading on Mother Nature
After taking a trip down to Houston, Anthony wonders if buy-side firms are willing to dabble in the volatile weather sector.
Open Platform: Shining a Light onto ‘Dark’ Markets with Market-Derived Fixed Income Data
While market forces and regulation have led to transparency and high availability of market data for many asset classes, many aspects of the over-the-counter fixed income markets remain opaque, with market data either unreliable or incomplete. To…
Small Fish and Big Ponds
Plus Market's imminent closure leads this week's stories.
Time to Consider Consolidation
As vendors vie with each other to provide the most comprehensive range of data management solutions, consolidation provides an attractive path to increased market share