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Events

Events

Waters Technology’s extensive coverage of Events features expert analysis, news, opinion, interviews & special reports on the business issues facing professionals across the financial market IT, trading technology and data landscape.


Events News, Commentary & Analysis from Waters Technology

Sarkozy's FTT Won't Cross the Atlantic

The French president promised a financial transaction tax for his country in August, reviving talk of its merits. Firms and technology providers can rest...

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Events | 03 Feb 2012

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Waters USA: CTOs See Flat IT Spending in 2012

Technology spending by buy-side and sell-side firms will remain flat—roughly equaling budgets in 2011, and in some cases, 2010—according to CIOs and CTOs who spoke at the Waters USA congress in New York this week. "The budget will be same as last...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Events | 09 Dec 2011

Cossiom: European Data Industry ‘Alive and Kicking'

Letter to the editor from Charles Gastellu, president of Cossiom: I would like to thank all participants in our 2011 Cossiom Charity Event for their support. The European market data community is alive and kicking! Since June's now well-established...

Inside Market Data | News | Events | 02 Dec 2011

ETAS Panelists Disagree Over Limits of Low Latency

As low-latency technologies become more commoditized, trading firms will have to invest creatively to avoid diminishing returns, since low-latency architectures are no longer enough to guarantee trading success, according to panelists at last week's European...

Inside Market Data | News | Organization & Management | 28 Nov 2011

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Opening Cross: Emerging Markets, Emerging Sources, Data Still Key

Incisive Media’s Hong Kong office, 20 floors up yet dwarfed by the edifices of government and banking that surround it, overlooks the harbor and Kowloon, toward the New Territories, and beyond that, the country so often cited by fans of emerging markets—mainland...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Events | 14 Nov 2011

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Cost, Compliance, Collaboration Drive WFIC Debate

Cost containment remains a top concern across the market data industry, leaving market participants grappling with the challenges of budgetary constraints in the face of changing regulation, new technologies and competitive pressures, according to panelists...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Events | 17 Oct 2011

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European Financial Information Summit 2011: Data Consumers Optimistic Despite Tight Budgets

Four years after the start of the global economic crisis, financial institutions are still feeling the pinch of recession, according to a panel of end-user data professionals at last week’s European Financial Information Summit, who unanimously reported...

Inside Market Data | Discussion | Events | 30 Sep 2011

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European Financial Information Summit 2011: Panel Says Proprietary Costs Will Prompt Two-Tier Latency Race

The ever-increasing speed demands of algorithmic and high-frequency trading are prompting a shift to more proprietary technology development, leading to a division between the “haves” and “have-nots” with the resources to continue investing in...

Inside Market Data | Discussion | Events | 30 Sep 2011

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European Financial Information Summit 2011: Banks Say Exchanges Must Simplify Usage, Pricing Models

Despite mounting pressure from sell-side firms and increased competition from market fragmentation, appeals for exchanges to simplify their data usage and pricing policies are going largely unheeded, panelists said, warning that if the administrative...

Inside Market Data | Discussion | Events | 30 Sep 2011

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European Financial Information Summit 2011: Data Architects Construct ‘Virtual’ Reality

Trading firms are looking to managed services and cloud computing as a means to deliver more value and resources, while reducing the number of systems that they need to maintain internally. And while vendors are happy to step up to the plate, they warn...

Inside Market Data | Discussion | Events | 30 Sep 2011

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