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Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream
Moves away from discrete, siloed systems toward fully integrated single platforms, particularly across the back office, are at the forefront of sell-side institutions’ minds these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Sell Side ─ OneMarketData
The concept of big data is an unusual phenomenon that has, since the global financial crisis of 2008, garnered attention from both buy-side and sell-side firms as they grapple with increased data volumes, the variety of sources and formats of that data,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side ─ BT Group
At their core, cloud environments come down to three things: scale, connectivity and security. BT has all three areas covered in spades with its BT Radianz Cloud, winner of the best cloud provider to the sell side category in this year’s Sell-Side…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side ─ IBM
If any computing company can offer end-to-end infrastructure solutions, it’s IBM. It’s reliable, it’s massive, and it’s got quite a few software engineers under its roof. The company has seen a shift among the sell side from home-grown grid software to…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Web-based Development Environment ─ smartTrade
Given the decline of Adobe Flash as the modus operandi for dynamic web development, with even the parent company abandoning the platform, all attention seems to be turning to HTML5 these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) ─ Torstone Technology
In many respects, the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards mirrored the Buy-Side Technology Awards, launched back in 2007, not only because of their similar methodologies and many of the categories on offer, but also in terms of certain categories’…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product ─ Numerix
Since the financial crisis, counterparty risk has earned its place as arguably the most important exposure to manage accurately on an ongoing basis. The fallout from the crisis has meant a greater focus on counterparty risk, either because of new…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product ─ LCH.Clearnet
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the ability to monitor and manage margin requirements has become paramount for sell-side firms—after all, none would want to make similar headlines to those made by Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Provider of the Year ─ SunGard
The award for the best overall sell-side technology provider for 2013, the most prestigious of the categories comprising this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, and the second of two awards announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform ─ FlexTrade
Name a feature, and the FlexTrader execution management system has it. The ability to control multiple portfolios comprised of several sub accounts from one blotter? Check. Access to over 200 trading destinations? Check. A formula-building template for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Bloomberg
Aggregate the power of an execution management system (EMS), an order management system (OMS), and the resources of Bloomberg, and you’ve got an execution tool to be reckoned with. The Sell-Side Execution & Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) leverages…
SocGen's New Lease: CTO Bob Schmeider Prepares a Built-to-Spec New York Trading Floor
In July, Société Générale is heading east to its new home at 245 Park Avenue. With the massive infrastructural consequences in store, Americas CTO Bob Schmeider has found a project—la nouvelle maison Americaine—that is ideally fit. By Tim Bourgaize…
Private Equity's Data Play
In private equity, general partners (GPs)—which invest directly in portfolio companies—are becoming more sophisticated about monitoring those companies’ performance, while limited partners, which invest in the GPs’ funds, are in turn scrutinizing the…
James Rundle: SEF Regulation: The Art of Compromise
The passage of final rules governing how swap execution facilities will operate provides for a new era in how derivatives are traded. James says that the final form of the rules, while prescriptive, also incorporates a measure of compromise and a regard…
June 2013: Nothing Typical About the Buy Side
While a wide array of financial firms can be categorized as "buy-side" institutions, Victor says that when it comes to their technology needs, they can be as different as chalk and cheese.
Max Bowie: Hacked Off: News Scandals and the Future of Trading
Some of the great names of the market data industry—Reuters and Platts, for example—grew out of news organizations. But having risen from the ashes of commoditization as an input to algo trading applications, news has recently come under fire for several…
Michael Shashoua: E.T.—The Extra-Territorial
Extraterritoriality, an idea that seemed alien at first, is rapidly increasing in importance for data management. Michael provides some explanations and considers how this concept may make an impact on multiple functions at financial services firms.
Anthony Malakian: A Data Chief on the Buy Side? Not So Fast
Some large banks have created the role of chief data officer in recent years. However, Anthony says this is not a trend that is likely to catch on anytime soon on the buy side.
Mobility Webcast: Anytime, Anywhere
In a recent Waters webcast on mobility, a number of key themes were addressed, including treading the fine line between regulatory obligations and personal privacy, managing multiple devices and a burgeoning IT infrastructure, and using mobile strategies…
The Lost Generation of Corporate Bond Platforms
Corporate bonds today remain among the most manual instruments to trade. But it did not have to be this way. Starting as far back as the late 1990s, attempts have been made to automate institutional credit trading. In part one of this two-part feature,…
CEP Comes of Age (Part One): The Need for Real Time at the Heart of the Enterprise Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on May 16, 2013 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 enterprise.
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…
Waters Rankings 2013 Voting Now Open
Each year, we ask our readers at securities firms, asset managers, hedge funds, brokerages and exchanges to choose their best financial service solutions and technology providers. Voting is now open for this year's Waters Rankings.