Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
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SPECIAL REPORT: AVOIDING IT FAILURE
Crying Out for Co-Operation
Standards remain one of the major headaches for the data industry, and with several groups dealing with the same issues individually, is progress in this field possible? Carla Mangado explores to what extent co-operation within the industry could make a…
DMA Hits India
EMERGING MARKETS
SunGard, PerTrac ally to support FOHFs
Global software giant SunGard has partnered with PerTrac Financial Solutions, a NY-based provider of front- and middle-office technology, to create a more complete offering for funds of hedge funds (FOHFs) and their administrators.
Gravitas extends hosting, DR services to smaller funds
New York-based hedge fund technology service provider and consultancy Gravitas Technologies has opened a data centre in the north eastern US to provide co-location services such as application and data hosting and disaster recovery to small- and mid-tier…
Come Together
I'm not good at dealing with change-at least according to my last performance review-and the only major change I have to deal with is Inside Market Data 's upcoming move to new offices closer to Wall Street next month. So spare a thought for those data…
Xeno Survey Questions Data Quality
Nearly 80 percent of market data professionals consider market data quality a serious issue that requires them to spend significant time checking and validating data rather than on projects that deliver competitive advantage, according to the results of…
Risk tech enjoys a mini boom By Emily Fraser
Financial firms caught with their trousers down in the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown continue to spend significant amounts of money on technology. According to a recent poll conducted by IBM and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets…
Suicide is painless - but what about usury? By Stewart Eisenhart
What do you do as an industry if you find yourself incessantly hounded by investors, analysts, and (to varying degrees) regulators to provide more transparency into your processes and operations in the wake of pricing debacles, a credit market collapse,…
Cloud computing with a silver lining
Simon Hazlitt, one of the co-founders of Majedie Asset Management, is justifiably proud of his fund's technology architecture, even though none of it resides within the London-based asset manager's walls. He speaks with Victor Anderson about Majedie's…
News In Numbers
Numbers
The Longest Day
Somehow it seems appropriate: Just 10 days after the summer solstice-the longest day of the year-there are press reports that Deutsche Börse is mulling the idea of opening trading on its Xetra platform earlier in the morning to compete with the upstart…
Where Do Old Acronyms Go to Die?
It's remarkable what you find when you start packing up to move offices. I recently uncovered a cache of old articles circa 2003 heralding the triumphant return of straight-through processing (STP) after the implosion of the Global Straight Trough…
Efficiency Reaps Rewards for BarCap
By implementing a new operating model for the firm's global IT organization, Barclays Capital (BarCap) saved $60 million in expenses through 2007. Waters reporter Emily Fraser sits down with Richard Greenbaum, managing director, head of global IT…