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Front-Office Data Focus Spurs IBOR Push
Data management and aggregation are perennial challenges for all market participants. But for buy-side firms, elements of these disciplines have crystallized into an Investment Book of Record—an overview combining position-level data, cash flows,…
Algorithmic Trading special report
March 2013 - sponsored by: Azul Systems, OneMarketData
Lord's Tech as Savior: Michael Radziemski's Tech Vision Helps Lord Abbett Weather Hurricane Sandy
Michael Radziemski has spent the last decade helping to make Lord Abbett & Co.’s IT more mobile and scalable in order to drive the asset manager’s aggressive growth strategy. That strategy proved particularly valuable after Hurricane Sandy battered the…
Michael Shashoua: Identification, Linkage and Risk
Efforts to get comprehensive views of reference data, driven by risk management needs and mandates, are taking different shapes. Michael classifies these into the straightforward and the more subtle.
Anthony Malakian: The Nature of Privacy
Open debate has been stifled in recent years due to the prevalence of off-the-record conversations, even at conferences. Anthony says this hurts everyone, as accountability and dissemination of ideas are necessary for a thriving industry.
James Rundle: That Golden Touch
The data jungle of modern trading may be confusing, says James, but the UK’s Financial Services Authority is certainly going out with a bang after slamming a complex market manipulation scheme, mirroring wider efforts among national cops to become tech…
March 2013: It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief
Recent moves by regulators to detect market abuse—including the SEC enlisting an HFT prop trading firm to build a monitoring system—are commendable. Victor argues they should go further and bring in people who have run afoul of regulations at some point…
Max Bowie: Thinking About Retail? Think Hard About Your Brand
With professional-grade services being targeted at investors and those that serve them, Max says the brand names of companies pitching sophisticated technology and data solutions—along with structural reform—will be more important than ever.
Nomura Research Institute: 60 Seconds with Shin Kusunoki
Shin Kusunoki, corporate senior vice president and financial and asset management systems division manager, Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
Outsourcing: In Search of Secret Sauce
Sell-side institutions continue to find value in outsourcing services, especially within the back office, but there is much room for improvement. By Steve Dew-Jones
New 'Agora' Enables Shift in Quants' Roles
Flush with financial engineering knowledge as never before, firms are deploying quants to tackle new challenges. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports on a fresh discourse among them about technology—including communication, memory, and intuition—indicating a new…
Optimize: The How and Who
Collateral optimization is a reality for a few institutions, an attainable goal for a few others, and a pipe dream for the rest. In the second part of his feature on optimization, Jake Thomases checks in on who is optimizing and who isn’t, and on what an…
Pulp Fiction: The Case for Dematerialization
Starting around the mid-1980s, securities depositories and the financial services industry as a whole began to move toward a process of converting paper stock certificates to electronic formats. Reasons of market efficiency and risk reduction are cited…
February 2013: All the Gear But No Idea
Recalling the frustration of the pre-USB days filled with floppy disks and drivers, Victor is glad that finally, the user experience is becoming more and more important.
James Rundle: Doubling Up and Doubling Down
As the introduction of SEFs inches closer, some question whether there is even a need for them, given their correlations with designated contract markets. Whatever the future looks like, James says, continuing investment in technology on the sell side…
Anthony Malakian: FIXating on Cost
As the broker community continues to struggle with the rising costs of managing FIX connections, third-party providers are trying to penetrate that market. Anthony says the buy side will have a significant say in the outcome of this conversation.
Michael Shashoua: Muddying Capital Adequacy
Delays and changes to the Basel III rules, including lower minimums for liquidity, are revealing gaps in what was once seemingly watertight regulation. Michael says the architects of the rules are losing the benefit of the doubt.
Max Bowie: The Future Isn’t Analytics or Latency, It’s ‘Analatencytics’
After years of focusing on reducing latency, firms are placing greater emphasis on reducing costs, Max says, meaning that latency projects must now be tackled as part of broader initiatives and deliver more than just raw speed.
No Easy FIX: Brokers Eye Outsourcing FIX Connections
FIX costs have long been a thorn in the side of more than a few brokers. While many still insist on managing their FIX connectivity internally, others have chosen to outsource this service to third-party providers. The question remains: Is the benefit…
Head in the Clouds: Impax COO Darren Johnson
After cutting his teeth at a variety of high-stress jobs in the City of London, Darren Johnson finally struck a balance between hard work and tranquility. Now as COO of Impax Asset Management, he sees the future in the cloud. By Steve Dew-Jones with…
The UX Factor: Visual Design Meets Finance
Financial applications once eschewed Marshall McLuhan’s famous argument—that the “medium is the massage”—by prioritizing function and cost over the beauty of the interface. No longer, experts say. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports on a design revolution that…
Optimize: The Whens and the Whys
Collateral optimization systems are coming into vogue as a means of handling some of the obligations of Dodd–Frank and EMIR. In part one of a two-part feature, Jake Thomases examines exactly what about the current market is prompting the adoption, and…
Art and Science: Credit Valuation Challenge II
Although the technical requirements for calculating credit valuation adjustment can be significant, other factors also need to be considered in order for an efficient counterparty risk management operation to be established. The second part of this…