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What's in Store for Algorithmic Trading?
In the midst of the current wild market swings, many on Wall Street wouldn't be surprised to see institutional investors start favoring the return to high-touch executions over routing institutional orders through algorithmic trading platforms. However,…
Building the Better Algorithm
Seldom is optimizing a trading algorithm a matter of simply writing a tighter line of code or turning one screw: It usually involves a more holistic approach. DWT sits down with John Bates, founder and managing director of Progress Apama, to discuss how…
Looking Into the Crystal Ball
When it comes to predicting the future of any technology, "smaller" and "faster" are always a safe bet, followed by "easier to use." When it comes to algorithmic trading, all of these apply. From a performance perspective, the cash equities markets…
When Counterparties Fail
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Rethinking Risk Management
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Virtual Roundtable: Tight Bond or Weak Link?
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Q&A: The Risk Riders
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Counterparty Risk News
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The Party on the Other End
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Asian buy-side firms move towards more advanced trading technologies
With assets under management topping $8 trillion as of 2007, the Asian and Australian traditional asset management and hedge fund industries present technology providers with major expansion opportunities, but the drive to increase adoption of electronic…
Report: Data Industry Seeks Third Player for New 'Big Three'
FactSet Research Systems, Interactive Data and SIX Telekurs saw the fastest growth among major data providers in 2008 as the market seeks a third competitor to break up the duopoly of Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, which both saw slight growth in market…
Raising The Ruble
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Accessing the Russian Markets
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Here for the Long Term
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Celent anticipates 20% decline in hedge fund IT spending
Hedge funds and funds of hedge funds will reduce their technology spending by more than 20% during 2009 as the industry continues its unprecedented contraction. A new Celent report expects that technology initiatives for the near term will entail…
Celent report: IT spending down in 2009, moderate growth in 2010
According to a new report from Boston-based consultancy Celent, IT spending in financial services: A global perspective , institutions globally will spend $353.3 billion on IT during 2009. This is a 1.3% decline compared with 2008, and is markedly lower…
Panel: Budgets Steer '09 Strategies
Cost issues will be the primary drivers in 2009 for firms to seek greater value from data vendors and decide potential changes to their market data infrastructures, including switching data providers or tapping new technologies, panelists said at a…
Start with the Gateway
The benefit of offering cross-asset trading is obvious to any broker-dealer: It simplifies the trading life of institutional clients by giving them a single point of contact with their brokers. However, delivering this capability, especially…
Laying the Cornerstone for Cross-Asset Trading
Whether it's an issue of providing new services to institutional investors or deploying a cost-saving maneuver in a down market, setting up electronic cross-asset trading capabilities is a difficult task for any broker-dealer. DWT assembled Steve Grob,…
Solving the Cross-Asset Riddle
If there is any issue in the industry that is best typified by the Gordian Knot, it is cross-asset trading. Unlike individual trading desks, where firms can deploy point solutions to improve efficiency, cross-asset trading involves dealing with a bank's…
Guest Editorial, The Case for a European Consolidated Tape in 2009
As we enter the New Year, Hirander Misra, chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe, looks ahead to the potential for a consolidated tape of data for the European markets