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The Disruptor: Alasdair Haynes, Aquis Exchange
Aquis Exchange's Alasdair Haynes talks about his plans to challenge the existing exchange market structure.
October 2016: Where Do Startups Go to Die?
When it comes to survival as a fintech startup, Victor says, it's all about sales. If, as the CEO of a startup, you do not spend every hour of every day focusing on sales, you and your business will fail. Period.
Plumbing the Depths of Unstructured Data
Turning to organizing measures like collaboration, ‘microdata’ and application of standards can help manage a deep source of information.
September 2016: Blockchain’s Limits
As summer winds down, Anthony looks ahead to an upcoming feature that will take a hard look at the benefits and pitfalls of distributed-ledger technology.
Risk and Performance Reporting Alliance
The incorporation of the risk function into performance reporting and analysis is the outcome of a series of developments triggered by market volatility and regulation.
Case Study: Fee Management Issues Offer Utility Opportunity
How a vendor’s acquisition of a big bank’s platform has led to the development of a utility.
Keeping Your Cool When You Can’t Keep Your Cooling
The threat of an imminent outage isn’t just a technical issue: It’s also an administrative one.
Guarding the Turret: The Future of Trader Voice
Trader voice firms are contemplating what the future of turrets will be.
Looking Ahead to Fall's Hot Topics
Dan gives a preview of issues that need to be addressed before the end of the year.
Prop Shop Culture: Tyler Capital's Chris Donnan
Tyler Capital's CTO Chris Donnan explains the importance of culture and its focus on machine learning.
Rise of the Machines: How Machine Learning is Changing the Capital Markets
Machine learning within the buy side is only set to grow, but getting data right is just the start.
Boosting Asia’s Liquidity: A Look at Best Ex Issues in the Region
While best execution mandates are growing around the globe, should the question be more about better execution than best execution?
Dawn of the PTF: An Inside Look at Canada's Attempt to Revive the Mutual Fund Market
Invesco Canada, TMX Group and potentially even Fundserv are building products that blend ETFs and active mutual funds.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
The UBS Neo platform was launched in 2013 and covers equities, commodities, FX and fixed income.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Agency Broker — Bloomberg Tradebook
Winning the best agency broker category in this year’s Waters Rankings makes it two in a row for Bloomberg Tradebook, and that is thanks largely to a busy year of product enhancements rolled out by the New York-based agency broker.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider — Convergex
If, as a capital markets firm, you aren’t using trading algorithms to at least some degree, there are two possibilities: Either you’re based in some backwater and you route your trades to your brokers by phone calls and faxes and they execute them on…
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: SS&C Advent — After Mergers, Moving Forward
At this year’s Waters Rankings, SS&C Advent won the award for the best accounting system provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Portfolio Management System Provider — RiskVal Financial Solutions
RVPortfolio undergoes a series of enhancements and upgrades this year
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Crossing Network Provider — TradingScreen
Tradecross is currently running in beta version and has been supported by 15 buy-side firms
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Reconciliation Management Provider — Electra Information Systems
It seems like just the other day that Electra Information Systems pulled off one of the great coups of the last decade at the Buy-Side Technology Awards by unseating SmartStream Technologies, a perennial winner over the years in this increasingly…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider — The DTCC
The DTCC wins the best sell-side clearing provider category for the third consecutive year.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: Equinix — Investment and Expansion
At this year’s Waters Rankings, Equinix was once again named as the best datacenter provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Persistence Pays Off
After last year’s Waters Rankings that saw 25 different firms in the winners’ circle, the 2016 Rankings were always likely to be somewhat less spectacular in terms of the broadness of the winners’ mix. Be that as it may, this year will be remembered by…
Data Policies to ‘Trump’ Donald and Hillary
Unimpressed with US politics, Max lays out his own manifesto for data democratization—focusing on fees, smart content, latency and regulation—to make trading strategies great again.