Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Mastering Master Data Governance
Ravi Shankar highlights the seven critical questions financial institutions should ask when looking to achieve successful master data governance
Innovative applications on the grid: Cutting-Edge Applications
SPECIAL REPORT: Street#Grid
Growing the Grid
SPECIAL REPORT: Street#Grid
The Grid of Tomorrow
SPECIAL REPORT: Street#Grid
Hedge fund OTC derivatives processing market to double by 2010
Over-the-counter derivatives processing technology has historically gained most of its traction on the sell side, but providers' opportunities to expand market share among buy-side users look set to expand significantly as hedge funds and traditional…
One hub to rule them all
The rapid rise in the use of STP for OTC derivatives trade affirmations and confirmations has triggered the establishment of a number of players over recent years with platforms from DTCC and SwapsWire dominating the market. However, the fact that no…
Attitude adjustment
The expectation game's role in the hedge fund industry can prove make-or-break more often than not for many individual managers. Bearish investor expectations in particular don't bode especially well. By Stewart Eisenhart
A northern tale
The wealth management industry has become a happy hunting ground for front-office technology providers who can assist managers in growing their business. When one such vendor deployed its platform to Border Asset Management early last year, it found a…
Front Office Grids: Why Bother?
During a panel discussion that took place at the second annual Street#Grid event ( see story , page 1 ), technologists and consultants discussed the challenges of expanding enterprise compute and data grids to the front office. It reminds me of a…
Surviving on a Budget
Recent market turmoil has put pressure on reference data teams to meet growing regulatory requirements and reduce risk. And all this has to be done on a budget. Tine Thoresen examines how market data tools could help firms in the current climate
Open Platform - The Algo Advantage
SPECIAL REPORT: NEXT-GENERATION ALGOS
Filling the Gaps
WATERS SURVEY
The Right Formula
LAB 49
Falling into place
Like so many other buy-side practitioners with closely married business and technology remits, Damian Debellotte 'fell' into the position as head of investment management systems at Newton Investment Management after completing a technology…
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Money certainly hasn't found its way to New York City. According to a recently published report by industry analyst firm Celent, brokerage IT spending in North America from 2008 through 2011 will grow at an anemic rate of 1.3 percent, which is down from…
Front-Office IT Spending Shrivels
BOSTON-The current economic downturn has stripped the short-term IT spending focus from the front office at large brokerages, according to a recently published report from Boston-based analyst firm Celent.
Merrill Lynch's Three Steps to a Global Grid
Creating a global compute grid is not an easy task, but traders at Merrill Lynch have been benefiting from the firm's global grid for the past year as they send analytics calculations across the wide area network (WAN) on a daily basis.
One Grid to Rule Them All?
If you do a quick term search on Google for "grid to rule them all," it returns 205 pages. If you search just on the term "grid computing," it returns another 4.88 million-in English alone.