Trading Tech
Riding the risk
The US hedge fund industry had a close call last month when the President's Working Group on Financial Markets decided that while greater oversight of hedge funds was needed, no new regulations would be imposed on this growing and sizeable portion of the…
Order in the house - BST’s software feature scrutinising nine buy-side order management systems
Order management systems (OMSs) in most buy-side organisations constitute the heart of the front office by providing an automated trading and compliance backbone around which a number of peripheral platforms and tools can be built. Indeed, OMSs play such…
Buy-side EMS spending gradually on the rise
BST analyses a recent Aite Group report on Execution Management Systems (EMS), concluding that, although EMS adoption across the buy side is set to increase in the coming years, growth will not be a swift as anticipated.
Targeting transparency - the impact Reg NMS will have on US-based buy side firms
Relying on counterparties for your own regulatory needs is not a great idea. Yet as the US financial services industry prepares for the SEC's rollout of its Regulation National Market System (Reg NMS) this year, it appears as though many buy-side firms…
Citi Expands Grid OS Environment
LONDON—The recently re-named financial services giant Citi expects to roll out support for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system (OS) to its grid backbone before the end of this quarter, DWT has learned. Citi's existing grid environment runs…