Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
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…
Guest Editorial - Evolving to Meet New Challenges
Ray D'Arcy recaps the year in which he became president and CEO of Interactive Data Corp., and looks ahead to 2010
Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance in 2010 and Beyond: Are You Prepared?
Join Dushyant Shahrawat, Senior Research Director - TowerGroup, and Maneeza Malik of IBM as they discuss:
FESE: Market Transparency a Must
BRUSSELS-Market transparency and integrity were on the lips of most of exchange operators who attended the annual Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) conference held in Brussels last week.
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
Feature
Lucky Number 7?
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Smooth Liquidity Sailing
Waters WEBINAR
Transforming Loans
The European syndicated loan market was meant to get its first identifier more than a year ago. But the development was delayed due to contract negotiations. Tine Thoresen reports
The Road to Risk Reduction
The financial crisis has proved that timely access to integrated and high-quality data is essential to mitigate risk and meet regulatory requirements. To discuss ways firms can improve integrated data management strategies, Inside Reference Data gathered…
Fully Operational?
Today, firms believe they are assessing their operational and other risks based on known conditions, but that belief is misplaced, says industry expert Margarita Brose
Cost Pressures Refocus User Priorities
As trading and investment firms face growing data requirements and shrinking budgets as a result of the turbulent economic environment, market data managers are focusing on better data administration, persuading vendors and exchanges to implement cost…
The Best Practices
EDITOR'S LETTER
The Price Isn't Right
The recession has put pressure on data consumers to lower costs and operate on tight budgets, but there have been mixed responses from vendors. Tine Thoresen reports on the pricing conflict
Software-as-a-Service: Enhancing Corporate Actions Efficiencies
SaaS-based solutions can be used to automate and support key business processes, including corporate actions processing, which in many ways is highly manual and, therefore, vulnerable to errors, says Fidelity ActionsXchange's Deb Culhane
Locking Down Liquidity
On October 5, the UK's Financial Services Authority released 09/16, Strengthening Liquidity Standards Policy Statement, the final version of the UK's long-awaited liquidity risk regulation. Carla Mangado explores how this will impact the back office and…
Spotlight on Ben Jackson
With energy and commodities markets facing the prospect of more hands-on regulatory reform in the US, SunGard has merged its Kiodex and Energy businesses into a single unit, with Ben Jackson at the helm. Former chief operating officer at Kiodex, Jackson…
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.
The Risk Factors
EDITOR'S LETTER