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Rise of the Challengers
COVER STORY
Market Data Flood Warning
STREAMING QUOTES
Developing diversity
Phil Sturgess, chief operations officer of Cadiz African Harvest Asset Management, made the move to the buy side ten years ago after a lengthy career in the corporate world. He speaks with Victor Anderson about Cadiz's growth during the past decade, the…
IT budgets: back on the chopping block?
When I first started reporting for Buy-Side Technology's predecessor BuySide IT (previous even to Hedge Fund & Investment Technology) in early 2003, financial markets were just starting to show signs of recovery following the September 11 attacks and a…
Adust or Bust When financial markets started heading south last summer, quantitative investment managers constituted the first wave of casualties. Various factors rendered these organisations especially vulnerable to market fluctuations, and with current
When financial markets started heading south last summer, quantitative investment managers constituted the first wave of casualties. Various factors rendered these organisations especially vulnerable to market fluctuations, and with current liquidity and…
Spotlight on Christopher Russo
Citisoft has added another managing director, Christopher Russo, to its line-up of buy-side technology consultants. Russo discusses his previous role as executive director of client operations at Omgeo, as well as the issues he anticipates tackling for…
A Matter of Principles
Since the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) took effect on Nov. 1, 2007, financial firms have been in a race to implement principles-based regulation in order to remain compliant and competitive.
Get Ready for Super Tuesday, IMD-Style
Anyone following the US Democratic and Republican primaries will be aware that time is running out to be nominated and pick winning candidates in the lead-up to so-called Super Tuesday. In Inside Market Data 's case, Super Tuesday will be on April 29-the…
Future Shocks
Looking ahead, we can expect emerging markets to play bigger roles on the global stage, and platforms will look nothing like those we know today.
MiFID Man
PROFILE
A New Order
DATA
A river runs through it
Getting buy-side user-firms to agree to talk about their use of technology and how it enables their business is notoriously difficult, which is why we jumped at the opportunity to speak with three Charles River clients - ING Investment Management,…
VWAP your time is up
With the advent of liquidity fragmentation and the expanding use of cross-asset trading, the global capital markets are undergoing a period of great change. As with the Big Bang of 1986, this change is significant, and will require those who operate in…
Liquidity sourcing tops buy-side business drivers for 2008
The need to capture liquidity sources across fragmented markets will clearly dominate investment managers' operational, strategic, and technology initiatives in the coming year. But along with that objective come issues of having to deal with more…
Brian Sentance
Chief executive officer, Xenomorph Software
Exceeding expectations
Performance reports on the buy side are hardly worth the paper they are printed on, unless of course, they are fully GIPS-compliant. Performa is one of a select handful of vendors operating in this space, proving that, in an industry increasingly…
Bringing Color to European Equities
Data is expected to become a key battleground for trading market share as multilateral trading facilities emerge across Europe to shake up the equities trading market. Eli Lederman, a former managing director and head of electronic trading at Morgan…
ETRM Integration Challenges
As investment banks look to become more active in energy markets, many are just getting up to speed and learning the challenges of integrating their energy trading into their existing trading portfolio. With this in mind, Dealing with Technology has…