Best execution
Capacity Management: Voices from the Trenches
Today's complexity and enormously competitive requirements to predict and mange scale, quality of service (QoS) and cost, demand a new tooling discipline to truly transform the way we manage capacity, and to take it to the next level. Only by engineering…
Bellegarde: Data Never More Important
The European data industry must adapt to new technologies and market forces in the face of an economic crisis if established providers are to remain competitive, according to NYSE Euronext group executive vice president and head of European execution…
Volatility Still Challenges Algos
Trading via technology and algorithms alone may not be the best strategy during volatile times in the financial markets, according to industry experts.
Taming the Dark Pools
With the low barrier of entry to developing and deploying new dark pools of liquidity, the industry has experienced a dramatic growth in non-displayed liquidity venues in the past year. However, with that growth many industry participants say it's time…
Timing Is Everything
In early January the editors and publisher of DWT and Buy-Side Technology sat down to determine how best to serve our readers and we came up with an idea to launch a new conference covering the subjective and elusive topic of "best execution."
Shaking Up Transaction Cost Analysis
Though the use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) has permeated the buy side, a number of industry participants see the need for an evolutionary change.
Leadership Key for IT Hires
NEW YORK-As firms on Wall Street grapple with the current turmoil in the financial markets, they are looking to well-rounded IT professionals to help get them through it, according to industry experts.
Business Success Spurs Customization
It is possible for a firm to customize off-the-shelf technology to create a differentiated system or product, but sometimes vendors stand in the way, say industry experts.
Gearing Up
MARKET LEADERS
Virtual Roundtable CEP And The Race Against Latency
REPORTS & BRIEFINGS
Mastering the Basics
Data management is evolving rapidly in Asia. Firms are eager to learn from the mistakes and successes stories in other markets, and there is a growing willingness to invest in this area. Carla Mangado explores how the region can benefit from a fresh…
Editor's Letter - Another challenge for the House: Myopia
I was in New York recently for DWT 's and Buy-Side Technology 's Best Execution 2008 event (see related article, this issue).
New York puts on a brave face at Best Ex 2008
With the current turmoil and uncertainty permeating most facets of the US economy, one would be forgiven for assuming that buy- and sell-side practitioners would have been too fixated on their Bloomberg terminals to attend a one-day conference. But as…
A moving target
Among the myriad bogeymen haunting buy-side institutions in the current nightmarish financial market, the negative effects of trade latency have received a lot of press in terms of lost basis points, market impact, and failed best execution mandates. As…
As Rome burns
Stewart Eisenhart was in San Francisco midway through last month to attend this year's TradeTechWest conference. He reports that, while the current financial crisis in the US offered attendees and panellists the perfect opportunity to cry off, the no…
Emerging Markets Go Mainstream
As emerging markets attract ever-increasing interest from Western investors, Inside Market Data quizzes a panel of companies operating in and sourcing data from emerging markets around the globe on the challenges and opportunities facing firms looking to…
Achieving Best Execution: The Quick and the Dead
If there is one universal desire shared both by the buy side and sell side, it is to achieve best execution with their trades. As keynote speaker at the inaugural Best Execution conference, hosted by DWT and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology , last…
Business Is Still Business
All eyes in the market are turned to the negotiations between the Democrat-led Congress and the Bush administration about a proposed $700 billion bailout of the U.S. economy. But last week, for at least one rainy day in Manhattan, a large number of buy…
Liquidity Management Systems: Their Place in Today's Trading Infrastructure Trio
Occasionally confused with a controller's cash management system, liquidity management systems (LMSes) have quickly emerged from infancy to near-adulthood status.
Demystifying Liquidity Management
Ever since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) took effect, many new terms have been added to the trading lexicon. The latest, liquidity management systems (LMSes), is still in the process of being defined. DWT has assembled a panel of…
Liquidity Management's Redux
Unlike many broker-dealers looking to get their arms around the new buzzword, "liquidity management," the agency brokerage arm of Crédit Agricole, CA Cheuvreux, believes that the concept has been around for a number of years.