Research and Commentary
Taming the Wild, Wild Web
In the last couple of years, the Internet has become pervasive and global, spawning an exciting generation of Web 2.0 applications like podcasts, blogs, wikis, P2P social networking, Semantic Web mashups, and 3D virtual worlds. The latest consumer…
IT Spending Up in 2007
BOSTON & LONDON-Despite the credit crunch, financial services firms have spent more on IT investments in 2007 than previous years, say industry watchers.
Code Red Preps Jan. Launches
Research management software vendor Code Red is targeting Jan. 1 to roll out both its IdeaNet online broker-client communication platform and version 3.2 of its Red Alerts research management system, which includes built-in integration between standalone…
TheMarkets Upgrades MeritMark
Research portal TheMarkets.com has enhanced its MeritMark research evaluation tool, to support more granular feedback from buy-side firms about the quality of sell-side research staff and services.
Experts: Asia to Follow European Trading Mold
NEW YORK-Firms looking to test the electronic trading waters in Asia should follow the history lessons learned in Europe, not the U.S., according to a recent roundtable of industry participants.
Thomson, BQuotes Partner for CDS Data
Thomson Financial’s analysis and commentary subsidiary Thomson IFR Markets has begun providing real-time credit default swap commentary, analysis and forecasts to BestQuotes and BestData—the real-time price discovery and intra-day price services from…
Taking Control
Hands up-who's ever downloaded a song from an online file-sharing program without paying for it? Yet how many of you are scrupulous about data audits and appalled by data piracy? Ultimately, we're talking about the same action on a different scale. And…
Ipreo Automates Meetings Data
Ipreo, the business created by the merger of Hemscott, i-Deal and MarketPipe, is preparing to launch a new service aimed at automating meeting communications as part of the investment research process between broker dealers and investment managers.
TheMarkets.com Scores a Bullseye
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com will this week unveil a new real-time query tool that melds broker research and information gathered from the Internet, dubbed Bullseye.
CSAs Enable Firms to Price Proprietary Research
US investment managers are taking steps toward placing firm values on proprietary research provided via soft-dollar arrangements-increasingly by the use of commission-sharing arrangements (CSAs)-though industry experts say some stumbling blocks to…
CAPIS Deploys Pivot for Trading, Research
Dallas-based agency broker and research provider Capital Institutional Services is deploying technology from trade messaging and collaboration infrastructure provider Pivot, to automate trade order messages and for distribution of investment research.
BlueMatrix Updates Research Tool
BlueMatrix, a New York-based software provider, last week unveiled a new version of its research report authoring application designed to improve speed and performance, which the vendor will roll out to customers in the fourth quarter of this year.
TheMarkets Bolsters Broker Evaluation Application
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is augmenting its MeritMark broker research evaluation tool to give users more granular feedback options, officials tell Inside Market Data .
TheMarkets, InfoNgen Prep Search Tool
Bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is incorporating Instant Information's InfoNgen filtering tool to allow clients to perform customized searches of broker research and Internet content, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Analyst: True SOA a Pipe Dream
NEW YORK—The age of pure service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology is getting closer, but is still almost a decade away, says James Wolstenholme, research director with Garnter, who spoke at the Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit in New…
Spanish alternative industry primed for boom
Stewart Eisenhart looks at the recently published Tabb Group report, Cross-asset trading systems: Controlling the trader’s desktop, and finds the broker community under increasing pressure to provide their buy-side clients with more integrated, multi…
Spotlight on Gavin Little-Gill
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Gavin Little-Gill about his move from the financial services analyst community where he was research director at TowerGroup to Linedata Services where he now heads up front-office product development.
Bank Consortium to Build Unregistered Securities Platform
LONDON—A group of investment banks, including Citi, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, are developing a multi-bank electronic trading platform for unregistered securities, according recent media reports.
Making History
Today will go down as a major historical milestone. I'm not talking about commemorating 13 British colonies declaring independence, the merger of Upper and Lower Canada into the Dominion of Canada, or even independence of Argentina. No, today marks the…
Report: 25K New Trading Positions by 2010
TAUNTON, U.K.—The global need for new traders will rise by 7 percent, to approximately 25,000 new trading positions, according to a white paper recently published by industry research firm Kimsey Consulting.
Spotlight on Rinando Soto
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Eze Castle Integration’s Rinando Soto about the changes he’s experienced resulting from his recent move from the prime brokerage industry to the buy-side technology vendor community, which services ostensibly the same market…
Where Is Grid Going?
For most of us, grid computing is a stateless network of compute nodes used to split and run complex analytic processes in parallel to reduce elapsed run times. However, for a small but growing number of market participants it is the next-generation,…