Trading Tech
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,…
Fly to comply
The increased flow of institutional capital and mandates to the buy side means that compliance and risk management considerations have never been more crucial for buy-side firms, especially for those alternative managers that until recently have led a…
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…
RiverCross ATS selects SunGard's Brass to power dark pool
RiverCross ATS has selected SunGard's Brass infrastructure to host its dark pool servicing sell-side providers. The connection to RiverCross will allow SunGard Brass clients direct connectivity to its dark pool and the option of executing orders before…
Eskom signs for SunGard's AvantGard
Eskom, the South African parastatal and the country's primary electricity supplier producing approximately 95% of South Africa's electricity, has selected SunGard's AvantGard platform for treasury management.
BNY ConvergEx Group rolls out buy-side dark pool service
BNY ConvergEx Group, the agency brokerage and technology provider, has launched a new execution service, the Dark Desk, through which the firm's traders can more efficiently execute orders on behalf of buy-side and hedge fund clients across dark venues.
The more prime broker relationships, the better
Large and mid-tier hedge funds have been trimming the numbers of their prime broker relationships over the past two years, eliminating redundancies and gaining operational efficiencies. But that may change in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse and…
Month in Numbers
"Clearly we don't use carrier pigeons - the point I was trying to make is that the industry is still very much transfixed by the 'Henry Ford' approach to technology, which allows you to do things faster. But that's not necessarily how you make money"
Augustus takes CMA's CDS data for risk management
Augustus Asset Managers has integrated end-of-day credit default swap data from credit and derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis into its Derivation risk management system.
Bank of Ireland licenses SunGard Asset Arena
Bank of Ireland Securities Services (BoISS), a Dublin-based fund administrator and custodian, has transferred its funds onto SunGard's Asset Arena accounting platform.
Seeing the wood for the trees
The nuances between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Application Service Provision are often misunderstood, although, perhaps not altogether ignored. But while the variations between the two may not be of utmost importance to the buy-side firm accessing…
OTC Fortress
Market Structure
Bloomberg, Microsoft Release Mobile Data App
Mobile Technologies
Are You Overwhelmed?
Streaming Quotes
A New Match
Letter From The Editor
Everything Old Is New Again
The Daly Close