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Wall Street's Binge Leads to Integration Hangover

NEW YORK-After the aftershocks subside from the financial earthquake that hit Wall Street at the start of last week, IT executives from the institutions left standing will be forced to grapple with the headache of integrating their newly acquired wares…

Darwin in Action

After several quarters of whistling past the graveyard, Wall Street and the global markets have succumbed to all the toxic debt that the market has been generating for the past few years. What does this mean from an IT perspective? Except for the…

Dear Clara and Joe...

Last week, Clara Furse and Joe Ratterman, chief executives of the London Stock Exchange and BATS Trading, which is gearing up to launch an alternative venue in Europe trading LSE-listed stocks, exchanged words via open letters on the state of competition…

Doing more with less in 2008

Traditional investment managers are being assailed on all sides. The market volatility of the past twelve months has only served to emphasise legacy challenges, while bringing with it new obstacles to be met and overcome. With revenues squeezed, managers…

Hart of the Matter

A year ago, Dow Jones' owners were locked behind closed doors deciding whether to accept a bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. One year on, Inside Market Data discusses some of the changes-and future plans-with Clare Hart, a 25-year veteran of…

The Case for Consolidated Market Feeds

In this age of low-latency direct feeds, consolidated market feeds such as the CTS, CQS and Opra are viewed more as necessary evils than sexy must-haves. Yet not only do these feeds remain basic essentials for firms to gain a consolidated view of an…

ITG's Alasdair Haynes: Maintaining the Cross

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) introduced multilateral trading facilities and systematic internalizers as new routing destinations for the European markets. With the rise of these new venues, what role do the established crossing…

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