Judge Green Rings In New Era For Baby Bells, As Market Vendors?

THIS WEEK'S LEAD STORIES

The breakup of AT&T's monopoly over telecommunications in the mid-1980s left seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, better known as Baby Bells, sitting on lucrative local telecommunications networks. These fat cats, with a penchant for diversification, may soon be allowed to prowl the Street, seeking an entree into the financial information services market.

At the same time, cash-poor and hungry market data vendors, like Pont Data Inc. (IMD, Aug. 5) and Shark Information Services Corp. (see

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Systematic tools gain favor in fixed income

Automation is enabling systematic strategies in fixed income that were previously reserved for equities trading. The tech gap between the two may be closing, but differences remain.

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