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Bottom-up reform

What little difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, financial services participants, observers and press - including yours truly - were anticipating major regulatory overhauls and new oversight of the industry following Barack Obama's election and…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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