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Infrastructure Technologies Build for Core, Buy for Generics
LONDON-When looking to add technologies to support their core businesses, financial firms should try to build them internally. However, when requiring more generic components, the best choice is to buy off-the-shelf products, say industry participants.
The Naked and the Dead
It appears that it will be only a matter of time before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) writes the obituary for naked sponsored access to the exchanges. Most people in the industry agree that it is a smart thing to do in order to…
Panel Urges Euro Data Standards
The financial industry must encourage the adoption of standards in order to ease the burden of consolidating ever-increasing data volumes from a fragmented market, according to panelists at an event held by Thomson Reuters in London last week.
Reference Data Emerges as Building Block for Collateral Management Program at J.P. Morgan
LONDON - Data has emerged as a foundational component of a J.P. Morgan global collateral engine initiative, a multi-year, multi-million dollar program designed to enhance business infrastructure, officials tell Inside Reference Data.
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Credible Pricing
Turbulent market conditions have put increased pressure on evaluated pricing providers to ensure prices are credible. With fewer sources for dealer quotes and volatile markets, it is becoming more challenging to ensure data inputs are high quality and…
Instinet introduces Newport 3 EMS
Instinet, the New York-based provider of electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, has launched Newport 3, its third-generation EMS (execution management system). According to Instinet, the platform includes enhancements to performance,…
It Never Rains, But It Pours
If it is the middle of June, it must be time for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. In the past, the conference always marked the unofficial start of…
Floored: The Definitive Data Guide to the SIFMA Technology Management Conference
The current economy is making it harder for firms to get sign-off on technology projects. Thus, it's more important than ever for firms to know what they want. To help readers navigate this year's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's…
The Art of Liquidity Management
As liquidity in the markets continues to fragment and individual trading venues introduce innovative offerings, broker-dealers can no longer expect to manage their order books in the same way they have in the past. Firms need to find and manage liquidity…
Sifma Technology Management Show Guide
It may be easy to predict that the financial crisis and its toll on the industry will be on everyone's lips at this year's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) Technology Management Conference and Exhibit. When most would be…
Divining the Right Liquidity Platform
As liquidity in global markets continues to fragment, sell-side firms of all sizes realize that deploying a liquidity management strategy and its supporting infrastructure isn't just about reaping the extra profits, but also meeting new regulatory…
Analyze This
I write this looking out on a misty and unseasonably mild night in Astoria, with clouds shrouding tall buildings and rain pounding my window, at a time of year when the city should be sweating in the middle of an unbearable New York summer. It goes to…
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Regulators Eye Dark Pools
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Markit Boat: Navigating Data Quality
MiFID did more than open up competition for trade execution by enabling the launch of new multilateral trading facilities; it also gave rise to new over-the-counter trade reporting facilities such as Markit Boat. Inside Market Data recently spoke to Will…
Risk's rich tapestry
From time to time we at BST select topics for monthly features that prove challenging to contain within three or four pages. This month's article on real-time risk is a case in point; while the meatiest angles of the issue made it into the feature, some…
Risk in progress
For years, the notion of real-time risk management to better inform buy-side traders prior to making executions has proven elusive. And now that lessons learned from the ongoing global financial crisis continue to mount, the value of real-time pre-trade…
Citi Maps Out European Strategy
As new European markets pop up taking liquidity from long-established exchanges, investment banks find themselves chasing liquidity down a maze of various trading venues. DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi sits down with Jack Vensel, managing…
The Party's Over
The first item on my agenda this week must be to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in last week's North American Financial Information Summit-from the speakers and participants who made the panel discussions the best that I've seen, to the…