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Michael Shashoua: Game of Global Communication
Risk is a growing concern for corporate actions, but will that be enough to push through improved messaging standards? Michael thinks this should translate into a consensus for action.
Max Bowie: Will Ratings Rethink Restore Credit Confidence?
Rightly or wrongly, credit rating agencies are often blamed for the financial crisis. But with new stricter rules for rating agencies now in force, Max says why not rethink the entire issue of regulating ratings, and give them the same status as any…
The Nuclear Option: Eaton Vance's John Shea
John Shea sits down with Jake Thomases to discuss his interesting pre-Wall Street career and Eaton Vance's IT.
Dodd–Frank Turns Three—What's Next?
July marks the three-year anniversary of the Dodd–Frank Act being signed into law. Anthony Malakian takes a look back at the IT challenges faced, and previews what’s still ahead.
July 2013: The Tail Wagging the Dog
While trialing new technology, Victor is reminded of the importance of getting input from end-users.
60 Seconds with Emilio Mercado of Simplified Financial Information
Emilio Mercado, CEO, Simplified Financial Information
Poles Apart? Tech Push Boosts Poland's Prominence
Capital markets in Central Europe—and especially Poland—have made steady gains after being unlocked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, with new technology helping to both catalyze reform and create jobs. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports from Warsaw on the…
Deploying Professional-Grade Mobile Technology Across the Enterprise - webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 19, 2013 to discuss the strategies leading and the challenges facing the financial markets of tablet and mobile device implementation across the enterprise.
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
SEFs at the Starting Gate, Technologists Prep for Challenges
On May 16 this year, US regulators finalized long-awaited rules that govern various aspects of how swap execution facilities will operate. Several years after the draft rules were first announced, attention now turns to the technology challenges…
Lessons from the Hash Crash
Over the past few months, a series of glitches similar to the one that caused the Hash Crash has made it clear that the financial markets are at the mercy of high-frequency trading machines. Some of these systems feed mostly on social media content,…
CEP comes of age (Part Two): The need for real time in Risk Management Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 13, 2013, the final in a series of two, to discuss the changing role and continued adoption of complex event processing (CEP) as the engine at the heart of the drive to real time across the…
Regulation special report
June 2013 - sponsored by: Linedata, SIX Financial Information
SST Awards 2013: A Leap of Faith
The inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, will be remembered for many things, not least because those in attendance were introduced to an American icon in the form of ex-Major…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ SunGard
Given recent events across the financial services industry, few aspects of trading infrastructure and process are of a higher profile than market surveillance. Firms face devastating consequences from failing to properly monitor their employees’ trading…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Numerix
As with the Buy-Side Technology Awards, all category-winning products were considered for this award, the penultimate category of the Sell-Side Technology Awards and one of only two announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in Times…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions
With all the fuss and attention that software receives, when it comes to fulfilling basic trading needs, people often overlook the humble telephone. No office can operate without one, and the specialized needs of a trading floor make it an essential…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Caplin Systems
Of all the categories of this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, the award for the best implementation takes more stock of a vendor’s ability to deliver on its promise than any other.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ IPC
Trading networks are an emergent, but fierce, area of competition in capital markets technology. From concentrated webs within co-located data centers through to global, continent-spanning interconnections that link participants across the buy and sell…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit EDM
That Markit EDM ─ previously known as Cadis before Markit acquired the London-based data management technology provider in June last year — extended its focus from its buy-side stronghold to the sell side, is hardly surprising. That extension of its…