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Australia Preps for New Liquidity Pools

SYDNEY-Australian markets can expect to see an explosion in liquidity sources as the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) is expected to grant a number of alternative trading systems operating licenses as soon as June.

Turquoise ready to ruffle feathers

Turquoise, the pan-European share trading platform gearing up to launch later this year, is aiming to open up the European exchange market that, in Turquoise's view, has to date been the province of quasi-monopolies that pass on overly high costs to end…

The bonny buy side

Edinburgh is home to a number of the largest asset management firms in the UK, where the focus on trading and technology is just as strong as in the larger financial centres. Joel Clark recently spent two days in the city and found a closely knit…

Going Dutch

This week, the IMD bandwagon rolls into Holland for its inaugural Amsterdam Financial Information Summit, where panels of experts will attempt to hash out (pardon the pun) the key issues affecting the European market data landscape in a one-day program…

The Carletti Equation: 2+2=5

Since joining Telekurs Financial as chief executive in February last year, Marc Carletti-former managing director for Reuters France-has presided over one of the busiest periods in the vendor's history, overseeing the acquisition of French vendor Fininfo…

If Content Is Still King...

... then why do we keep hearing that it's "commoditized," or that it's "noise"? If it's so valuable, why are market forces and industry initiatives seemingly aiming to make so much of it freely available? And if content is the priority, how come we hear…

Saxo Jumps on the Bus

Trading front end updates, architecture redesigns and a message bus deployment are just a few of the projects that are keeping Saxo Bank executive director and co-CIO Flemming Skov busy this year. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Skov to see what else…

CEP Comes of Age

With the early adoption phase over, complex event processing technologies will not only enter the mainstream during 2008, but permeate it completely. By John Morrell, director of product marketing at Coral8.

Independence Day

Competitive pressures are constantly prompting vendors to review their offerings and look for new opportunities. One such vendor is Knowledge Technology Solutions and the Arcontech business it bought last year, which is not only deciding the best way to…

The Future of E-FX

Since the beginning 2007, the electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) market has gone through dramatic changes with the adoption of algorithmic execution as volume and volatility have reached record levels.

No Country For Old Men

In a recent posting on his blog, Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer suggested his own addendum to Clayton Christensen's theories in The Innovator's Dilemma about why it is hard for large companies to innovate as much as their smaller competitors. While…

And Then There Were Seven

As newly minted Nasdaq OMX Group waits for final approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to open the seventh equities options exchange, DWT editor Rob Daly catches up with Adam Nunes, vice president of Nasdaq Transactions Services…

Breaking Through

After an array of reputational crises in the financial industry, operational risk has helped data gain traction in the C-suite. Top-level management is starting to understand the reference data challenge, and it is now up to divisional heads to sell the…

The Location Game

EDM offshoring is becoming increasingly popular in the reference data industry, with new locations around the world attracting international firms. Carla Mangado explores the best offshoring options

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