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Changing equity markets test buy-side traders
Market volatility, counterparty risk and other issues are posing significant challenges to buy-side equity traders at the same time that their brokers are having to rethink their own business models. A new Tabb Group report, Equity trading in transition:…
Survey: UK Data Spend Hits Bottom Amid Cautious Optimism for 2010
UK financial institutions are expected to spend marginally more on market data in 2010, reversing two years of consecutive budget cuts, according to a recent survey of dealing room technology by UK-based research firm Kimsey Consulting.
Real-time risk: a mandate for trading in volatile markets
Not long ago financial services firms had to run their Monte Carlo simulations overnight. But with the advent of faster processors and new technology, firms can now manage their risk in real time or near to real time. Buy-Side Technology and DWT hosted a…
Pricing priorities
After the global credit crisis exposed weaknesses in methods investment managers and other financial institutions employ to price and assess the risks in their portfolios, a new Aite Group report predicts firms will double their technology spending on…
Supplementary solution
When Metzler Asset Management opted to implement the Charles River IMS, it chose to supplement its existing front-office applications with the system, rather than use it as a replacement. For an asset manager with an historically strong in-house bias,…
Executive action
Cynics would have argued that the buy and sell side would be too busy looking for the green shoots of economic recovery to attend the July 1 Best Execution 2009 (London) event, hosted by Buy-Side Technology and DWT. But an impressive turnout on the year…
London Calling
It was nearly a year ago when DWT and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology sponsored the first Best Execution conference in Manhattan. While trying to remain modest, I can say the event was a rousing success. The dialog that occurred between the buy-…
Cyber Trading Technologies Fragmentation Drives Smarter Algos
LONDON-As liquidity in the European market-place continues to fragment, it increasingly falls on the sell-side to re-aggregate that liquidity for their clients, according to industry experts.
Cyber Trading Technologies Europe Expects Smart Order Routing, Algo Overlap
LONDON-As smart order routing (SOR) technology becomes more prevalent in European markets, the lines between SOR and trading algorithms will blur, according to industry insiders.
Cyber Trading Technologies Algorithms Alter Dark Pool Dynamics, say Panelists
LONDON-Although dark liquidity cannot be considered an innovation in the financial markets, dark pools have been recently transformed by algorithmic trading, according to market participants.
Putting Humpty Dumpy Together Again: Dealing with Fragmentation and Liquidity Management
The following is an excerpt from a presentation entitled Impact of a Fragmented Market on Liquidity Management given by Tom Middleton, head of European algorithmic trading with Citigroup, during the Best Execution 2009 conference in London.
Compliance Technologies New Faces and Regulations for the European Market
As the global economy attempts to right itself, national and supranational market regulators seek ways to prevent similar situations from reoccurring in the future. Below is an excerpt of the keynote address entitled The E.U. Regulatory Model: Challenges…
Infrastructure Technologies Build for Core, Buy for Generics
LONDON-When looking to add technologies to support their core businesses, financial firms should try to build them internally. However, when requiring more generic components, the best choice is to buy off-the-shelf products, say industry participants.
Panel Urges Euro Data Standards
The financial industry must encourage the adoption of standards in order to ease the burden of consolidating ever-increasing data volumes from a fragmented market, according to panelists at an event held by Thomson Reuters in London last week.
Navigating Market Volatility with Real-Time Risk Management
It wasn't long ago that the most sophisticated investment firms wanting to manage their risk needed to run their Monte Carlo simulations and other models as overnight processes due to IT constraints. Thanks to faster processors and innovations such as…
Texas endowment fund opts for general overhaul
When the time came for Austin-based endowment manager Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (TTSTC) to revamp its allocation process for alternative investment vehicles, a more robust risk management platform had to be part of the package. But rather…
Slew of regulations to impact asset and hedge fund managers
With efforts to set new regulatory structures in place for the financial services industry underway on multiple fronts, the impact on buy-side firms' technologies and operations will be profound and long-lasting, says a recent TowerGroup report. By…
SIFMA 2009: Think Small
While this year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition will probably be most remembered for being much smaller than the spectacles of years gone by in terms of exhibitor numbers and delegates-hardly surprising, given the current state of…
Deutsche Börse Launches MNI Algo News
Deutsche Börse will this week launch a low-latency feed of machine-readable economic news, dubbed CEF Alpha+ Macro, which has been developed in partnership with subsidiary news agency Market News International, which the exchange acquired at the end of…
Morningstar Integrates Tenfore Data
Chicago-based market data vendor Morningstar has begun a project to update all of its key browser-based products to carry streaming data from its Real-Time division, formed by the acquisition of UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems last year ( IMD , Dec…
Burgundy, Quote MTF Enlist Interxion for Co-Los
European multilateral trading facilities Burgundy and Quote MTF are both using Dutch hosting service provider Interxion to provide co-location services, to satisfy client demand for low-latency access to their primary matching engines and data…