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Hedge Funds: Prime Villains?
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VaR comes in for criticism
The credit crisis has uncovered the weaknesses of many risk management models and risk mitigation approaches. The rating agencies' reputations have also come under the spotlight as their reputations and reliability have been called into question. Value…
Green Data: Impact vs Low Latency?
Milliseconds matter, but so does public opinion. Professor Michael Mainelli, executive chairman of London-based think-tank Z/Yen Group, says trading can remain competitive while dealing with issues more important than latency.
Data Security Right
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Floating on a system for fixed income
The world may have fallen out of love with collateralised debt, but even in difficult trading conditions portfolio managers still need to look at complex fixed-income instruments to deliver alpha to their clients. Fidessa LatentZero's David Blocker…
China for Dummies
Keiren Harris, founder of Open-Asia.info, a portal for financial markets-related information across the Asia-Pacific region, lists his top 10 rules for those seeking to break into the Chinese market for data.
Why New Systems Fail
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Riding the Tsunami
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Asset managers forced to deal with counterparty risk
Traditionally, counterparty risk was always viewed as a sell-side phenomenon, but all that changed with the demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year. Now, counterparty risk has a distinctly buy-side flavour, as Sybase's Sinan Baskan explains
Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses
As machine-readable news algorithms gain more attention, firms and vendors alike must pay close attention to monitoring technologies to avoid the dual pitfalls of automated trading-latency and message loss. By Steve Wong, vice president of marketing at…
The Obvious Choice
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The evolving role of the buy-side project manager
The buy side is currently facing a number of acute challenges including the need to improve the efficiency and discipline of business processes, implement technology to enhance client service, manage risk, support the introduction of new asset classes…
Business Practice Patents on the Downswing
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Future Holds Many Uncertainties
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CSAs set for dramatic change
The demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year was a wake-up call to asset managers and other investors that the single-broker aggregator model for managing commission sharing agreements (CSAs) has its flaws. Reliance on a single equity broker to…
The Added Value of Greening IT
Farmers know if they look after their land, it will look after them. Financial technologists need to adopt a similar approach as they nurture their silicon crops. As soon as recession struck, however, too many lost interest in ‘green IT', with its…
Low-Latency Messaging 101
Designing consistently low-latency messaging isn't just about outright speed-to gain the biggest payoff, firms must also examine loss, monitoring, applications and more. By Mark Mahowald, founder and president, 29West
Buy Side Bolsters Controls
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The party's over
One of the by-products of the ongoing global financial meltdown is the likely cessation of self-regulation for buy-side institutions.
Crunch Time for Data Management
The age-old challenge of managing market data becomes even harder in an increasingly hostile and complex environment. Ron Troy, former associate director of market data at WestLB in New York, sets out the key issues, and offers some suggestions for…
Concurrency: Take Control or Fail
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Making BPCM Work
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Latency Takes the Lead
There was a time when low latency was just an issue of plumbing in the dealing room or datacenter to speed up trading flows, but market fragmentation changed all that. Now it is strategic. Distance implies latency. If you use smart order routing in a…
One Platform to Rule Them All
Since the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext merged to form NYSE Euronext, the exchange operator has aimed to deploy a single global trading platform across all of its exchanges. DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi sits down with Anthony…