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Data Governance Takes Centre Stage
The recent economic downturn has made many firms focus on their internal activities instead of solving problems by buying million-dollar platforms. Data governance is the new buzz word for organizations aiming to improve data quality and reduce risk…
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Following the leader
From its inception, Markit had the necessary ingredients for remarkable growth across the financial services industry: it identified (and focused on) a number of the most acute operational challenges for buy- and sell side firms; it attracted the…
Safe Harbour for start-ups
Harbour Capital Partners, a recently launched London-based hedge fund hotel, became the first such UK-based operation boasting FSA regulatory approval. Victor Anderson speaks with Steve Williams, Harbour's chief executive, about what he believes makes…
SWX Europe joins dark pool fray
SWX Europe, the London-based stock exchange owned by SWX Swiss Exchange and formerly known as virt-x, this month launches Europe's first exchange-owned non-displayed liquidity pool.
OMS vendors look to smaller, international managers for future growth
With North American and Western European buy-side markets at their saturation points, a new TowerGroup report anticipates a slower rate of growth for the buy-side OMS market. The future of OMS vendors' growth prospects, says the report, lies with small-…
The back-office battleground
The intensely competitive and lucrative land-grab traditionally associated with the front office has slowly shifted towards the back office. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the portfolio accounting, investor reporting, and in some cases, OTC…
Bloomberg's All-Star Deal
In the lead-up to last week's annual All-Star baseball game in New York, a row erupted between Red Sox pitcher Jonathan Papelbon and the New York press corps about who was the better closer and should end the game-Papelbon or revered Yankees pitcher…
Algos: The Next Generation
With the dramatic growth in available processing power and advancements in complex event processing (CEP) technology to handle expanded real-time inputs, trading algorithms are on the verge of the next evolutionary quantum leap. DWT has gathered a panel…
Portfolio Trading Dominates Algo Growth
Most Wall Street players tend to leave divining the future to mediums with basement storefront dens, but most agree that in the next five years the use of trading algorithms will be going nowhere but up.
Edgar Online: Redefining Data
Philip Moyer, former entrepreneur and general manager of global customers and professional services at Microsoft, joined Edgar Online last April as president, becoming chief executive in July. Inside Market Data recently quizzed Moyer on his plans for…
Study highlights Euro trading inefficiencies
Oxera, the Oxford, UK-based economic consultancy has, in conjunction with Omgeo, released the results of its research into the current status regarding the automation of trade processing in the European markets.
White paper calls for greater fund pricing transparency
Hedge funds' pricing and valuation methodologies never seem far from the spotlight these days as the industry contemplates ongoing calls for greater levels of disclosure and transparency. However, as Stewart Eisenhart reports, calling for reforms and the…
Spotlight on Steven Richard
After holding management positions at Spectrum Global Fund Administration and Harris Insight Funds, Steven Richard has taken the reigns as managing director at hedge fund technology and service provider Gravitas Technology's new business cons-ultancy…
Fly to comply
The increased flow of institutional capital and mandates to the buy side means that compliance and risk management considerations have never been more crucial for buy-side firms, especially for those alternative managers that until recently have led a…
BNY ConvergEx Group rolls out buy-side dark pool service
BNY ConvergEx Group, the agency brokerage and technology provider, has launched a new execution service, the Dark Desk, through which the firm's traders can more efficiently execute orders on behalf of buy-side and hedge fund clients across dark venues.
The more prime broker relationships, the better
Large and mid-tier hedge funds have been trimming the numbers of their prime broker relationships over the past two years, eliminating redundancies and gaining operational efficiencies. But that may change in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse and…
Seeing the wood for the trees
The nuances between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Application Service Provision are often misunderstood, although, perhaps not altogether ignored. But while the variations between the two may not be of utmost importance to the buy-side firm accessing…
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