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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,…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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 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…

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…

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