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Notes from Your Secret Santa
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Hidden Forces Shaping the Market Fabric
When everything is always changing, it is nearly impossible to see the big picture, yet after all of the recent chaos and innovation, one trend continues: namely, the market fabric. On one level this is what Tim Berners-Lee called the Semantic Web, where…
Regulatory Drivers for Real-Time Analytics
Proposed rules for the financial industry will force market participants and regulators to adopt new ways of monitoring and consolidating data across different systems and markets. By Neil McGovern, product marketing director at Sybase
Will China Go with the Flow?
With under-utilized capital delivering minimal returns in a depressed financial market, emerging economies such as China could see an even greater inflow of funds, prompting demand for data and tools that track these capital flows. By Simon Ringrose and…
Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
As international data vendors clamor for a slice of the Chinese marketplace, local vendors are coming under pressure to supplement low-margin strategies with value-added content and analytics, and partnerships to enable expansion throughout and beyond…
Beyond Perestroika
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Regulatory Soup
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Euro market ushers in next-generation trading platforms
The financial services industry is constantly evolving the tools and capabilities to trade greater volumes faster and more efficiently, and just as we witnessed phone-based trading supersede the open outcry model, we are now seeing screen-based trading…
Managing High-Frequency Risks
While commentators eagerly debate the merits of high-frequency trading, everyone agrees that high-frequency trading, like any trading activity, requires thorough risk management.
Hands Off My HFT
Rather than blaming high-frequency trading for Wall Street's woes and threatening heavy-handed reform, regulators should get with the times and consider high-frequency monitoring. By Dr. John Bates, general manager of Progress Apama
Is Wall Street Trading Theft?
Capitalism in the U.S. has taken a body blow and old socialists and newer free-economy alternatives echo the charge that Wall Street has plundered the economy. However, the maligned Wall Street trading rooms, Chicago trading pits and the exchanges still…
Markets Need to Get It Together
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The Netflix Challenge
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Realising data's potential
In uncertain times, the ability to assimilate data in a meaningful way across the enterprise is a key component of effective investment management. But how can you manage and consolidate the huge volume of data that is available, and more importantly,…
The price of the position
Anyone who thought they could manage their positions based on individual instrument duration, along with instrument market value-to-fund ratios, has recently learned some harsh lessons. Fixed-income fund managers are looking for new levels of effort to…
The New Data Imperative: Real-Time Risk
As hints of a market recovery start to emerge, what can Wall Street do to avoid another crisis? Sybase senior executives Dr. Raj Nathan, Irfan Khan, and Sinan Baskan condense the key advice from their recent book, The New Data Imperative: Managing Real…
Managing the Hedging Risk
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Research management solutions: bringing the benefits of automation to the front office
It wasn't long ago that the quality and reliability of an asset manager's research was contingent to a large degree on its sell-side relationships. But the traditional buy side-sell side interaction has changed in recent years on both sides of the…
Tear Down the Silos
The evolution of IT in the banking industry is driven by the constant pressures of financial innovation and regulatory compliance. In combination with IT vendors plying their wares, this has led to the widely recognized problem of information silos,…
The New Reality
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Regroup, restructure, recover
Technology spending has slumped over the past year as a result of the slowdown in the financial services industry and the ensuing global recession. But, as MFT's David White argues, now is the time for buy-side firms to use technology spending as a…
20:20 Hindsight
As UK-based market data technology vendor Sinara Consultants celebrates its 20 th anniversary, sales director Gary Hughes reminisces on how technological change and globalization have changed customer requirements over those years, and looks forward to…
Tear Down the Silos
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Calculating the real cost of technology
Buy-side firms are under increasing pressure to rationalise their technology infrastructures and staff compliments in an attempt to positively impact the bottom line. One way of doing this is by carrying out a total cost of ownership (TCO) exercise…