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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
The financial industry has long dealt with fragmented markets and data sources, consolidating market data from multiple trading venues, vendors and regions. Not only is this expensive, but it can also be a complex process to capture, map and store all...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 18 Mar 2013
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) and Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan, which collectively oversee the collection and distribution of consolidated tapes of quote and trade data for US equity markets, have both voted to adopt new fees for the...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 18 Mar 2013
Regulators will struggle to make sense of derivatives market data if trade information is reported to different trade data repositories in multiple locations, according to Roy Havemann, chief director of financial stability and banking at South Africa’s...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 15 Mar 2013
Not only is market data disseminated faster today than ever, but there is also more data than ever before, leading to more automation of the collection, storage and analysis of data—not just to support algorithmic trading, but also qualitative analysis...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 15 Mar 2013
Fancy yourself the Daniel Day-Lewis of data? The Anne Hathaway of analytics? Or maybe the Martin Scorcese of market data, or the Robert De Niro of reference data? It's almost time to present the annual Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards...
Inside Market Data | News | Awards & Rankings | 12 Mar 2013
Encouraging economic signals in the past week—namely the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s run of record highs and better-than-expected job figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics—suggest that the markets continue to strengthen, and with them,...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Organization & Management | 11 Mar 2013
Windows and Samsung have made moves to cut into Apple's dominance in the tablet space. Will they find any buyers on the buy side?
Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Buy-Side Operations | 08 Mar 2013
If I have one pet peeve, it’s bad writing in business communications and materials. Perhaps, as a writer, I’m overly sensitive to this. But perhaps business professionals, should be, too—because as the industry starts to look past the cost cuts...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 04 Mar 2013
The US self-regulatory organizations (SROs)—nine exchange operators, some comprising multiple marketplaces, and regulator FINRA—published a request-for-proposal on Feb. 26, to solicit proposals from parties interested in building and operating the...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Mar 2013
Vendor price increases accounted for much of a 2.34 percent increase in spend on market data products and services to $25.5 billion globally in 2012, with organic growth potentially slipping into negative figures, but buoyed by spend on pricing, reference...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Mar 2013
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