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Cracking the Secret Sauce

Next to low-latency execution, cross-asset trading is one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry today. However, the open secret is that while everyone seems happy to talk about cross-asset trading, very few firms have managed to truly deliver it to…

Taking the Wheel

Growing pressure from regulators and increased focus on risk mitigation has resulted in more firms addressing internal data management processes, looking at how improved governance structures can help organizations overcome data quality issues. Inside…

Immediate risks, distant rewards

Research from Greenwich Associates and Omgeo published in February examines more pro-active hedge fund approaches to risk management aimed at dealing with counterparty risk and investor demand. Meanwhile, studies from Tabb Group and Celent Communications…

Increasing Collaboration

Financial instability has pushed the industry to recognize the need for improved data quality to reduce counterparty risk, making it a top priority for firms. Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry professionals to discuss how the role of data…

With a Little Help From Your Friends

Not so long ago, outsourcing part of your infrastructure was anathema to anyone who was interested in bleeding out latency in order to execute high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies. Right-thinking financial technologists knew that everything related to…

Lowering the Bar to High-Frequency Trading

Low-latency trading infrastructure is a must for high-frequency trading, but the costs and knowledge required to optimize and maintain it have kept it out of the hands of most firms. DWT sits down with Dave Malik, director of solutions architecture in…

Lime Branches Out

The growth in high-frequency trading (HFT) is about to bear fruit for New York-based agency broker Lime Brokerage as HFT firms continue to sprout up across the industry.

Reuters, Interactive Eye Integration in 2010

Thomson Reuters and Interactive Data are both making the integration of their respective technology platforms a key priority for 2010, said officials at both vendors' earnings calls last week.

Buy-side risk projects set to increase in 2010

Following mounting evidence that risk management processes in the traditional asset management and hedge fund industries proved alarmingly inadequate in the midst of the global credit crisis, investment managers are now intending to beef-up risk…

Reuters: Buy Side Demands Cheaper, Better Data

Buy-side market data consumers are calling on European exchanges and trade reporting facilities to provide real-time trade data as a standalone subscription product, to allow the creation of a consolidated tape of time-and-sales data accessible at a more…

China Data Needs Grow as Market Matures

Annual spend on market data by financial services firms in China is expected to grow rapidly over the next 10 years, reflecting the maturation of the Chinese financial industry and broader user requirements, which is creating opportunities for vendors…

Smaller IT Budgets Push Creativity

The past year has presented new and interesting technological challenges for 2010 to the listed-derivatives industry. First, trading volumes actually declined for the first time in over a decade, but message traffic continued to explode. Second, demand…

High-Frequency Trading: Getting with the Program

What exactly is high-frequency trading (HFT)? Is HFT good for the market or is it synonymous with toxic order flow? Does it fly in the face of anti-competition laws? How many different HFT strategies are there and what differentiates them? These are just…

'More, Faster, Cheaper' to Dominate FX in 2010

Over the past year, the foreign exchange (FX) industry has seen the continual stretch to be the fastest price maker, the unrelenting onslaught of ticket volumes, the shifting sands of ECN rules, the rise of algorithmic execution the ever increasing ranks…

Managing Corporate Actions Risk

Despite industry efforts to reduce financial losses typically associated with corporate actions processing, managing risk remains one of the major challenges for the corporate actions industry. On November 18, Inside Reference Data gathered leading…

Relying on Regulation

While cost cutting was an overriding theme in the data management industry in 2009, the improved economic environment now means value-adding projects to help manage risk and meet regulatory requirements are back on the agenda. Inside Reference Data…

Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012

A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions…