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Welcome Back... and Welcome!
I was fortunate to be invited to spend the holidays this year in the company of friends in the San Francisco area. On Christmas Day, I was presented with a gift marked "from Satan." A typo, I wondered? Is Santa dyslexic? Sadly no-the gift that emerged…
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Enterprise Data Management
The AFTA Goes To ...
2007 AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS
Future Shocks
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Through the Past Darkly
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Shifting Trends
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Right place right time
Buy-side organisations have traditionally struggled to objectively measure the value they derive from the services pedalled to them by their sell-side counterparts. Now, with the introduction of Reg NMS in the US and Mifid in Europe, investment managers…
Spotlight on Tejpal Chadha
Starting over in the financial technology industry carries plenty of risks, but Tejpal Chadha has done just that. The former co-founder and chief technology officer of Vhayu has joined a new hedge fund technology platform developer, Nirvana Financial…
The bust of 2008
Making predictions can be either an embarrassing or an enlightening exercise. A recent blog posting that made the Incisive Media rounds last month was a reproduction of a page from a 1900-era edition of the Ladies' Home Journal . In the gloriously dense…
Learning on the job
Brian Mitchell, head of dealing and portfolio control at Baring Asset Management, is proof that you don't need an Oxford or MIT education to rise through the buy-side ranks. Victor Anderson speaks with him about how Barings formalised its execution…
A Market Data Christmas Carol
After returning home from the FISD's holiday party last week, I was woken by the sounds of a horrible wailing and the noise of chains dragging on the ground as the specter of late, great market data manager Jake Marley appeared before me.
Guest Editorial - Prepare to Shift Gears
With globalization, algorithmic trading and regulatory initiatives forcing vendors to 'walk the walk' this year, remaining focused on basic client needs will be a key differentiator in 2008. In this exclusive guest editorial column, Thomson Financial…
Algos, Latency Force Asia Upgrades
Rising trade volumes in Asia Pacific, and growing demand for access by offshore investors, along with the spread of algorithmic trading spurred exchanges to improve their trading and data systems during 2007 to allow for greater message-handling capacity…
Algo News Feeds Evolve, Seek Traction
The evolution of so-called newsflow algorithms-tagged news feeds designed to trigger orders within algorithmic trading applications-continued during 2007, though take-up among end-users still remains muted.
Regulation Takes Priority for Data Spend in '07
A major theme of 2007 was the introduction of key, market-changing regulations, which generated a new focus on regulatory compliance for data managers and data-related projects. Most significant were the European Commission's Markets in Financial…
Credit Suisse Wins AFTAs Hat Trick
NEW YORK-Credit Suisse's IT organization walked away with three of the 13 awards at the third annual American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) ceremony in midtown Manhattan last week. The firm's technologists took home top honors in the Best Global…
Bad Credit? You're Fired!
We've all seen the TV ads: "Bad credit? No credit? No problem! Call 1-800-LOAN-SHARK." ... Or something like that. But could this year's credit crunch have more personal ramifications? Apparently, because at a briefing hosted by sibling Inside Reference…
SOA Faces Tough Asian Slog
DELHI-Although uptake of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in Asia is still in the nascent stage, global financial institutions in the region are leading the way in a growing awareness of SOA, according to a newly released report from IT market…
The Marvel of Metrics
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Beyond the "Single Truth"
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