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The Final Countdown
MiFID will become law in Europe on November 1, driving significant change in the data community and creating competitive opportunities. While large investment firms will be ready for the M-Day, related reference data challenges will stay on the agenda…
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ASIA REPORT & EMERGING MARKETS
Pre-trade TCA: New challenges, new technology
Stewart Eisenhart looks at a recent Aite Group report – Multi-asset portfolio systems: the buy side’s new pied piper – and concludes that although there is a sizable market in the US and UK for such systems, vendors are likely to find greater demand from…
Jefferies to offer LongView ASP to hedge fund clients
The prime brokerage unit of investment bank Jefferies & Company has partnered with Linedata Services to offer an ASP version of the vendor's LongView Trading OMS to its hedge fund clients.
Multiple choices – Not all prime brokers are created equal: Joel Clark investigates the criteria employed by hedge funds to differentiate one prime broker from another, and concludes that the multi-broker model is the most feasible and flexible approach f
The relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers has always been complex, but as alpha remains the objective for fund managers and as markets remain volatile, that relationship is changing. Joel Clark investigates the criteria funds employ to…
Laws of attraction – Institutional capital flowing into the hedge fund industry comes at a price – investors expect operational transparency and industry accepted best practices when it comes to risk management. Victor Anderson outlines how funds in the F
Risk management disciplines across the buy side have traditionally ranged from relatively sophisticated - relative that is compared with sell-side organisations - to downright rudimentary. But that is set to change, especially in the Far East where funds…
Trade processing costs press the need for buy-side aggregation tools
Stewart Eisenhart analyses a recent Riskmetrics report suggesting the techniques and technologies that buy-side firms could deploy in order to potentially avert future valuation crises such as the current sub-prime mortgage melt down unfolding in the US.
Looking for America
As investment banks look to expand in emerging markets, DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Fimat Group's North American managing director for equities Douglas Engmann to discuss what the coming year has in store for wholly owned subsidiary…
Speed Machines
Italian sportscar manufacturer Lamborghini unveiled its latest creation at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week—the fighter jet-inspired Reventon. The car goes from 0-62 mph in 3.4 seconds, and will empty your wallet even faster. Only 20 will be made and…
Vendors Prep MiFID Feed Handlers, Consolidators
Market data and technology vendors Fidessa, Wombat Financial Software and SIX are all readying new products for capturing and consolidating new sources of market data that will emerge as a result of the European Commission's Markets in Financial…
Industry Preps for Rocky Mifid Launch
LONDON—With less than two months left before the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) comes into force, there is still a high level of uncertainty in the industry regarding implementation of the regulatory requirements, concluded…
Fidessa Launches Mifid Suite
LONDON—Fidessa has today, Sept. 17, launched a suite of products and services to help broker-dealers meet requirements set forth by the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), vendor officials tell DWT .
Sibos Hits Boston
Sibos Preview
Enterprise Data Firefighters
Buy-Side Data Management
Makeover Mission
BUY-SIDE PROFILE
Moving Along Swiftly
CONNECTIVITY
The Next Wave in BPM
SPONSORED STATEMENT
March to MiFID
COMPLIANCE
Business standards time
Imagine that tomorrow there were no traffic laws. No speed limits, no need to signal for your turns, no right of way and no reason to stop you from drinking and driving. For our readers in New York, let's abolish the 'conceal and carry' laws for handguns…
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Simon Morris and Ash Saluja, partners at CMS Cameron McKenna, look at Mifid and its various permutations for buy-side organisations from a legal perspective.
Time with the traders – Joel Clark and photographer Robert Aberman spend the morning with the trading team at AXA Investment Management in London.
For the small group of traders at AXA Investment Managers in London the expectation to perform is intense, but as Joel Clark discovers, the quiet times can be just as demanding as the pressure that goes with the territory. Photos by Robert Aberman