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MAT Design Seen as Strange by FCMs, SEFs
Panelists on a recent Waters webcast regarding the future of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives reform discussed the US Made Available to Trade (MAT) rules, saying that the design of the regulation was perplexing.
Banks Consolidating Screen Real Estate on Their Platforms, Says Waters USA Panel
The three keys to real estate are location, location, location. The three keys to keeping customers on your front end technology? Real estate, real estate, real estate. As in, screen real estate. There's only so much space to go around, and any provider…
BYOD Not a Given, Even as BlackBerry Flounders
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when BlackBerry dominated on Wall Street. As the Apple iPhone—and to a lesser extent, Android—gains ground, though, firms are advancing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies, even as some pull back.
Senior Technologists Discuss the Drive Toward Standardization, Automation
At this year's Waters USA conference at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, a panel of C-level technologists from across the industry discussed their drive toward standardization and automation, while contemplating new cost structures to help…
Global OTC Market Reform: Where Next After the US? -- Webcast
WatersTechnology gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on December 5, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are dealing with global reform of the OTC derivatives market.
IBOR Breakfast Briefing: People and Patronage Part of the Puzzle
Panelists at Waters' recent breakfast briefing on the investment book of record (IBOR), discussed practical methods of implementing an IBOR system at a buy-side firm, saying that while technology is important, the key to a successful project is often the…
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…
Citi to Mix Retail and Institutional Flow in Mexico
With its new Mexican order facilitation platform, Retail Price Improvement, Citi will provide full penny price improvement to retail investors, and ultimately institutional investors, on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV).
The March of LEI Progress
The legal entity identifier still has its hurdles to clear for full implementation, as panelists in an October 18 webcast acknowledge. Michael Shashoua reports their concerns about private-public cooperation, federated system structure and onboarding and…
Napier Park Achieves Citi Spinoff, Volcker Compliance with Sky Road
Napier Park, a $6.7 billion credit and fixed-income fund formerly known as Citigroup Capital Advisors (CCA), has tapped Sky Road, a Chicago-based managed services provider to the buy side, to help transition its trading application infrastructure into…
Enterprise Data Management special report
October 2013 - sponsored by: Eagle Investment Systems, MarkLogic
The Origin of Data
A growing drumbeat for generating or collecting data closer to its source—the issuer—is beginning to be heard
Citi Clients to Get DMA and Algos Trading in Moscow
Citi plans to begin offering clients algorithmic trading and direct market access (DMA) to securities traded on the Moscow Exchange this month.
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
Big Data and legacy systems – time to make the change? -- webcast
Inside Market Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on July 18, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are managing the big data demands of storage, analysis and access to gain competitive advantage for their investment decisions.
Citi Adds Brazil to Total Touch Platform
Citi announced that it has added Brazilian equities to Total Touch, its block electronic execution platform.
HSBC, Citi Contend With Standards Variations
Data management professionals continue to face multiple data standards that prove challenging when trying to achieve consistency. Michael Shashoua explores how semantic data is proving useful to aggregating data generated under these different standards.
Three FCMs Join MarkitSERV Credit Centre
Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and Goldman Sachs have signed up to MarkitSERV Credit Centre, Markit's pre-trade credit-checking facility for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions.
Governing Data Governance
High-level data officers are being tasked with development of data governance frameworks. Michael Shashoua hears about some of the methods they are using to set up complete systems.
Citi Opens ‘Open' to Client Base, Improves Order Entry and SOR
After working with its buy-side clients and vendors, Citi made several announcements today: It will now make available its Citi Open algorithm to its entire client base; it has enhanced its Citi Close algorithm; it has redesigned its global order-entry…
Bloomberg Releases IB Dealing for FX Traders
The chat-based platform, called Instant Bloomberg (IB) Dealing, is now being used for trade negotiation and execution by more than 100 banks globally.
Strategies and Practices to Maximize Opportunity Within the New Derivatives Market Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on May 15, 2013 to discuss the challenges of electronic trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market, including the pressure inflicted on infrastructure and the impact of associated regulations…
As Fund Administrator, Citi Answers the Data Question with OpenAi
Citi recently launched OpenAi, which provides complete data aggregation and transparency for its alternative investment clients.