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Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention
Regulation Automated Trading was created to protect market integrity and update the CFTC’s rules as algorithmic trading proliferates. There are many areas where there’s consensus agreement as to the benefits of this proposed regulation, but Anthony…
Startup Analytics Vendor MayStreet Taps Ex-Knight, Citadel Exec for BizDev
Streltsoff will be based in San Francisco and report to MayStreet CEO Patrick Flannery.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 4: Flash Crash, MiFID II, Blockchain on the Buy Side, DMMs
Dan and Anthony touch on eight different stories that broke this week in the fintech world.
Citadel Securities Becomes NYSE's Largest DMM, Acquires KCG's Business
Move marks the second new firm to join the DMM space this year.
AFTAs 2015: Best Risk Management Initiative—Citadel
Citadel's Risk Center allows the firm to manage risk across all of its portfolios from a centralized location.
Citadel Nabs Baillargeon as Pico Taps Cassell for Infrastructure Expansion
Cassell will leverage his new CIO role to oversee infrastructure strategy and consulting at Pico.
Blockchain Specialist Symbiont Targets Diverse 'Smart Securities' Applications
Ex-NYSE chief, former Citadel trading head among the startup's investors.
Blockchain Specialist Symbiont Targets Diverse 'Smart Securities' Applications
Ex-NYSE chief, Citadel trading head among the startup's investors.
REDI Looks Outside of the Financial World for Financial World Support
More single-dealer EMS acquisitions could be in REDI's future
Goldman-Led Consortium Unveils Symphony Communication Services
In what's seen as an effort to compete with the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Markit, Goldman Sachs and 13 other industry partners have invested in a new company called Symphony Communication Services Holdings, after it acquired Perzo Inc.,…
Top Banks, Hedge Funds Buy Perzo Messaging Platform for $66M
A consortium of 14 major financial firms has acquired Palo Alto, Calif.-based messaging platform provider Perzo and renamed it Symphony with a $66 million investment to provide an open-source, secure and compliant messaging platform for financial…
Curing What Ails US Equities: More 'Law and Order,' Less 'X-Files'
Tim consults a pair of lobbyists for their take on the Flash Boys kerfuffle and straightforward microstructure improvements that can be made today. In the process, he also fits in two hopelessly dated television references.
REDI Adds Credit Suisse's AES to its Multi-Broker EMS; Pushes Forward with Citadel OEMS
REDI Global Technologies has added Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (AES) to it REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Buy-Side—Tom Miglis, Citadel
Since 2001, Tom Miglis’ steady hand has run technology at Ken Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Group. But despite his long tenure as CIO, Miglis wasn’t named best buy-side technology executive as a lifetime-achievement-type award, but rather because…
2013's Trading Technology: A Year of 'Accelerating Returns'
Readers of Waters' ongoing coverage will have noticed several themes that blossomed over the past 12 months. Some of them were predictable. But 2013 also offered up more than a few unexpected hints of opportunities to come—whether imminently, or further…
Messaging Architecture Key as Citadel, REDI Partner on New OEMS
The pair of technology providers—both with sterling ancestry—are looking to confront a problem that, so far, has alluded a durable solution for the buy side. They are not the first to try—but from a tech perspective, the match looks promising.
REDI Now Independent of Goldman
Goldman Sachs has sold REDI, with its REDIPlus execution management system (EMS), to a consortium of investors, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citadel and Lightyear Capital. Even with the sale, Goldman will still…
High Stakes: An Examination of Risk Management on the Buy Side (Part 1)
In part one of his two-part feature, Anthony Malakian examines the state of risk management at the portfolio/trade-book level among buy-side firms. Part two will look at the middle- and back-office functions of risk across the buy side.
The Buy Side Gets into the Vendor Business
Anthony takes notice that more-and-more buy-side firms are looking to sell their internally-built technologies. Can they compete with true third-party providers?
Citadel Technology Preps End-to-End Solutions Suite
Over the next year, Citadel Technology will begin rolling out new risk and compliance solutions, and coupling portfolio construction with its order management capabilities.