Timothy Bourgaize Murray
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Waters 25: A Look Back on the Last Two Decades
Waters examines some of the most important events in financial technology of the past 25 years.
Lock, Stock & Barrel: Securities Lending Under the Gun
Securities finance has a new battlefront: two lawsuits alleging anticompetitive behavior in stock lending. At the center of the allegations lies the difficulty of finding actionable price and inventory data for borrowers and lenders alike. Will this…
Industry Fears Neutered CAT in 2018
The SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) of US equities trade data hit a fresh snag in late 2017, missing a major deadline for reporting, blaming insufficient cyber defenses. As it marches into another crucial year, Tim Bourgaize Murray reports on the…
Tech Sits at the Heart of ‘Evolve or Die’ Proposition for the Buy Side
One of the key takeaways from last year's Chicago-hosted SS&C Deliver conference is the importance for buy-side firms to develop a proactive technology strategy in order to adapt to a changing industry.
Building Advent Genesis: Getting the Balance Right
Portfolio rebalancing is a persistently tricky problem for investment managers to address, which is why successful platforms in this space must be designed from the ground-up to handle complex rules and deal with large order loads across strategies,…
Baking a Distributed Ledger Layer Cake in a Data Oven
Much of distributed ledgers’ potential lies in their shared data layer. Yet ledgers’ rapid rise has moved mostly apart from data management and data managers. Tim Bourgaize Murray explores the reasons why, and the possible opportunities within the world…
Scaling the Governance Mountain
The perfect data governance strategy is a unicorn, data executives say; yet from setting policies and data quality evaluation to metadata generation, all large financial firms need one. As many firms augment strategy in this area to become more data…
From the Ground Up: Infrastructure Investment Faces Data Challenges
With calls for massive investment in infrastructure ringing across North America and Europe, private investment in these projects should be flourishing. Yet, many institutional investors still view these opportunities with a balance of interest and…
The Next Big Lift?
Tim Bourgaize Murray explores opportunities for brokers to take on more of buy-side firms' data management burden.
Three’s Company: Platform Providers Get In On The Act
Some firms are seeing benefits in having core platform suppliers manage their data requests, rather than maintaining direct relationships with data vendors.
Loans: Scratching and Clawing to Progress
A revamped approach to the sometimes-dysfunctional sociology and technology that govern the syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligation markets is now in thrall. Learning from previous Herculean efforts, incremental steps are now realizing…
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Oliver Bussmann, UBS
Bussmann has nearly 15,000 followers on Twitter and has fully embraced social media.
AFTAs 2015: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Electronifie
The alternative trading system (ATS) is also anonymous, all-to-all, and focused on blocks rather than odd lots.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—Morgan Stanley
The need for legging should only grow as more electronification in fixed income is adopted in coming years.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: A Newer World
Tim gives some advice on the need for more openness among technologists.
'To Seek a Newer World'
In his final column, Tim reflects on his time at Waters and implores the industry to think — and speak — bolder as another era takes hold.
Trillium Launches Surveyor for iPhone
New York-based Trillium unveils a new mobile compliance and monitoring tool to provide users with depth-of-book quotes for US equities.
While Blockchain Inches Closer, Final Capital Markets Leap Remains a Mystery, Panelists Say
Blockchain is coming to the capital markets, but what shape it takes is unclear
First Trust, Chaikin Analytics Partner on New Offering
Unit trust specialist taps provider for portfolio construction.
Waters USA 2015 C-Level Panel: For Bigger Firms, Time to Make 'Real Bets' as Disintermediation Looms
Senior technologists from the buy side and sell side opened Waters USA with fresh urgency about both cost reduction and disintermediation.
Deutsche Bank Latest to Adopt Bloomberg's FIGI for Syndicated Loans
German giant joins US Bank, Virtus in support of identifier.