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The Proper Role of IT
Now that we are getting close to the U.S. summer holiday of Labor Day, its seems a logical time to discuss IT's role within organizations. I understand in some recent presentations at this year's VMworld, that some vendors were returning to the old...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Complex Events Processing | 02 Sep 2010
Let the Market Consolidation Begin
Earlier this week, Chi-X Europe officially announced that someone inquired about a possible total or partial acquisition of the multilateral trading facility (MTF). Since the privately owned MTF decided to go public with this news, it’s obvious that...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Exchange Technologies | 27 Aug 2010
Carbonn's Copy: Furnishing Your Data Needs
Last month, my wife and I were faced with the task of moving house. Although our new home was only a few miles down the road, the process was complicated because we were moving from a furnished to an un-furnished property, which presented us with purchasing...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Data Administration | 20 Aug 2010
Are You Ready for an Algorithm Management System?
I've been toying with a new business plan recently-an online repository for new three-letter acronyms (TLAs) and four-letter extended acronyms (FLEAs). Every time a technologist, marketer or communications person wants to coin a new TLA or FLEA, everyone...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Algorithmic Trading | 18 Aug 2010
Will Photonic Computing Save the Datacenter?
Earlier this week I was reading an article in the Technology Review describing the first complete photonic communication system developed by chip manufacturer Intel's photonics lab. This development will lead to some tectonic changes in enterprise computing....
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Hardware & Grid | 06 Aug 2010
CESR to Dark Liquidity: It’s On!
We all knew it would only be a matter of time before European regulators weighed in on the subject of dark liquidity pools. Over the past 18 months, these pools seem to have popped up like mushrooms and taken on the role that systematic internalizers...
Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 30 Jul 2010
The Alliance Tipping Point
If this year will be remembered for anything, it will be that we reached the alliance “tipping point”—the point when alliances between two or more technology vendors became the norm. We’ve always had affiliations, but 2010 has seen an unusually...
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alliances, mergers & acquisitions |
16 Jul 2010 
US Market Reform: It’s Almost Here
Financial technologists can breathe a slight sigh of relief as the US Senate and House of Representatives finished hammering out the final version of the financial reform bill in conference committee earlier today. Each chamber still needs to hold a procedural...
Sell-Side Technology
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Opinion |
Regulation & Standards |
25 Jun 2010
Building a Better Trading Interface
I recently attended a press briefing about Bloomberg's new Launchpad 2010 application for Bloomberg Professional, which lets users customize and share content in some remarkable ways. I haven't had a chance to check out Bloomberg rival Thomson Reuters'...
Sell-Side Technology
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Opinion |
OMS & EMS |
18 Jun 2010
Let the Games Begin
If there is one sporting event that holds a special place in any network administrator's heart, it is definitely the World Cup. Other events such as the 17-day Summer Olympics pale in comparison to the month-long soccer contest. Also, with South Africa...
Sell-Side Technology
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Opinion |
Hardware & Grid |
11 Jun 2010
Mistakes Happen: Deutsche Bank Trading Error Costs $434 Million
The old trading saying goes, "Sell in May and go away." The $434 million trading error by Deutsche Bank's proprietary trading business earlier this week no doubt had traders there wishing they had taken the advice to heart. The good news is that the firm...
Sell-Side Technology
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Opinion |
Risk Management |
04 Jun 2010
The Healing Process: Does Data Hiring Uptick Reflect Return to Growth?
The data job market is picking up, according to recruiters—one of whom I recently spoke to seemed genuinely surprised about the level of activity among firms and vendors recruiting for vacant and new positions. Despite the latest crisis of confidence...
Inside Market Data
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Opinion |
Organization & Management |
21 May 2010
And Now for Something Completely Different
After several months of hard work by a group of very talented people, I have the pleasure of introducing our new online publication Sell-Side Technology (SST), which will go live later this week. The new online publication continues Dealing with Technology’s...
Sell-Side Technology
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Opinion |
Operations |
18 May 2010
From Obsession to Fixation: Co-Lo on the Couch
If Oliver Stone rewrote the original Wall Street today, would Gordon Gekko say “Greed is good,” or “Speed is good”? No one likes delays, but the financial markets’ obsession with eliminating latency over recent years has now become an almost...
Inside Market Data
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Opinion |
Latency |
17 May 2010
Change for the Good
Waters has changed. But it's all good – we've 'folded in' Buy-Side Technology and Sell-Side Technology (previously known as Dealing with Technology) to the all new Waters and we've also just launched a new website underpinned by a recently-developed...
Waters
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Opinion |
Industry Issues & Initiatives |
17 May 2010
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