Best execution
Q-Wixx rolls out flagship CDS trading platform
Q-Wixx, a recently-launched utility assisting buy-side credit trading desks with the processing of credit default swaps (CDSs), has launched a new platform to automate the entire process.
Essential ingredients
City Practitioners’ Neil Hookway address the numerous communications challenges facing hedge funds and their technology providers when establishing the technical parameters of new projects.
Tapping technology – Joel Clark addresses the perennially topical issue of the ASP (application service provider) model across the buy side, and finds that it is not only end-user firms opting for the ASP route – Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage is already
Vendor-hosted technology, or 'apps-on-tap', is not a new phenomenon but it is a changing one. Gone are the days when ASP was confined to back-office technologies at funds on tight IT budgets; ASPs have permeated every facet of the buy side, so that only…
European equity markets ripe for electronic advance
Stewart Eisenhart covers the recently published Tabb Group report, European institutional equity trading 2007: The buy-side perspective, concluding that the rise in electronic pan-European execution volumes in the post-Mifid era is set to impact buy-side…
SIFMA Roundup: News From the Floor
With much of the discussion arising from last week's SIFMA show revolving around low latency and measuring latency, the issue threatened to drown out other news announced by vendors in different niches within the market data industry.
SIFMA Showstoppers
The annual trek around the SIFMA Technology Management conference's exhibition halls has become a pilgrimage for many. To save the wear and tear on our readers' feet, Inside Market Data presents a comprehensive list of exhibitors within our space, to…
Exegy Update Boosts Performance
St. Louis-based data technology provider Exegy has released version 1.2 of its hardware-based ticker plant appliance, which can accommodate greater throughput volumes at lower latency, officials say.
SIFMA 2007: A Sneak Peak
Editor's Note: It may be sporting a new name this year, but the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference is upon us. This year's theme of "Tech Be Nimble, Tech Be Quick" is expected to draw over 500…
Market Proliferation: A Paradox of Choice?
Unprecedented growth in the number and variety of trading venues will challenge even the bravest market participants.
Panel: Europe Lagging in Mifid Preparedness
COMO, ITALY—With under five months left until it comes into force, the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) still represents a challenge for most of the financial industry and member states in Europe, say industry participants.
Finucane's Theory of Evolution
Consolidated datafeed dinosaurs are evolving to escape the same fate as data dodos. By Don Finucane, vice president of product management and marketing, Interactive Data Real-Time Services
CESR Releases Best Execution Guidance
PARIS—In order to clarify the best execution requirements under the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) published a question-and-answer (Q&A) document last week.
Towards the Holy Grail
EDM Platforms
London Breakfast Briefing: The Low-Latency Risk Relay
AZUL SPECIAL REPORT
The Comeback King
COVER STORY
Store and purge
The boring world of data management is heating up and is about to boil over. Speak to today's data managers and you'll hear an interesting dissonance. Every CIO and techie assigned to storing and managing data knows that they are required by their…
Glocer's go-to man
Andrew White was appointed global head of Reuters trade and risk management by Reuters' chief executive Tom Glocer just over a year ago. Victor Anderson recently chatted with White about his ambitious five-year plan to grow the firm's market share,…
Buy-side use of equity derivatives outpaces automation
Tabb Group’s Exchange-traded equity derivatives report charts the increase in the use of such instruments across the buy side and predicts substantial changes in the way buy-side firms currently trade as they move from phone- and faxed-based systems to…
Blueprint for the future
The correlation between a buy-side firm's technology and its ability to trade fast and efficiently has never been stronger. Amy Muddimer explains this dependency by scrutinising technologies on the buy side that underpin the continuous drive for straight…
For the love of grid – Joel Clark investigates the rise in popularity of computer grids supporting a variety of compute-intensive processes on the sell side and looks at how buy-side firms might benefit by deploying such technologies.
Computer grids have been around for quite some time on the sell side, allowing banks to maximise latent computing power on their networks for a range of processes. But what about the buy side; will hedge funds' and asset managers' more modest…