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Industry Issues & Initiatives

Industry Issues & Initiatives

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


Industry Issues & Initiatives News, Commentary & Analysis from Waters Technology

A Minnow, a Monster and the Mother of All Services Firms

Monday 6 February, was hectic – there’s no other way to describe it. It was manic, frenetic, and tiring. But it was also brilliant.

Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 08 Feb 2012

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Burton-Taylor: 2011 Global Data Spend Tops $25 Billion

Industry spend on market data rose 6.64 percent to almost $25.1 billion globally in 2011, though price increases and the strengthening US dollar contributed significantly to that growth, rather than genuine expansions of data use, according to new research...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Feb 2012

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OPRA Data Traffic, Bandwidth Projections to Double, Driven by Weekly Options, Volatility

The Options Price Reporting Authority has updated its projections for options data traffic and bandwidth requirements for 2012 and 2013, predicting that the number of messages per second and the bandwidth required to handle OPRA’s consolidated feed...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Feb 2012

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Opening Cross: A Contradiction in Terms and Conditions?

As in life, the data industry is full of contradictions. We want more data but want to pay less; we want every tick but don’t want to have to handle massive volumes; we insist on the fastest feeds, whether or not our infrastructures are fast enough...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Feb 2012

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GreySpark: As Data Latency Falls, Trading System Measurement Now Biggest Barrier to Low Latency

Survey of banks shows latency is higher in internal decision-making applications than in internal and external data distribution.

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Feb 2012

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Greetings From the Land of the Little Master

It’s taken me four-and-a-half decades to get to India, and if the next 72 hours are anything like the first 12, the wait would have been well worth it.

Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 05 Feb 2012

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Greetings From the Land of the Little Master

It’s taken me four-and-a-half decades to get to India, and if the next 72 hours are anything like the first 12, the wait would have been well worth it.

Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 05 Feb 2012

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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 easy: The US isn't about to follow in his footsteps.

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

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Nothing Like a Bit of Irony to Pep Me Up

The recent electrical outages affecting Incisive Media's Broadwick Street offices are a potential catalyst for change, the endpoint of which must surely reside in the cloud.

Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 02 Feb 2012

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Nothing Like a Bit of Irony to Pep Me Up

The recent electrical outages affecting Incisive Media's Broadwick Street offices are a potential catalyst for change, the endpoint of which must surely reside in the cloud.

Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 02 Feb 2012

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