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Big Data is growing and is clearly a driving topic in 2012. As with many recent innovations, however, its definition is amorphous. In the first of a two-part...
Waters | Feature | Data Management | 25 Jan 2012
Steven Breen has made a career out of untangling and simplifying hedge funds’ technology infrastructures. Breen now finds himself at Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisors implementing a blueprint that has been honed over the course of nearly two decades. By...
Open-outcry exchanges are now largely extinct, with most trading executed through global computer networks. The rate of these transactions is limited only by technology and, increasingly, the speed of light. But as latency reaches the point of diminishing...
With the release of the Mifid II draft proposals, participants, vendors, exchanges and everyone in between have been studying the weighty document to see how it will affect their business. James Rundle reports on some of the biggest changes in Europe’s...
Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 29 Nov 2011
Though the percentage of dark pool volume in the US has stabilized between 11 and 12 percent, there are changes happening below the surface. Smart order routers are living up to their name, and the buy side is starting to ask questions. By Jake Thomases...
Waters | Feature | Smart Order Routing | 29 Nov 2011
Seldom in the history of securities trading can one attribute an important event, such as the introduction of high-frequency trading into a market, to a precise moment. However, Japan is not a typical market. Once the Tokyo Stock Exchange launched its...
Waters | Feature | High Frequency Trading | 29 Nov 2011
As cloud becomes more prevalent, the technology is beginning to offer more pronounced, user-focused benefits for investment firms, institutions and everyone in between. But what are the new frontiers, how can they be achieved effectively, and are these...
Waters | Feature | Infrastructure Technologies | 29 Nov 2011
Brazil’s stock exchange is in the midst of a strategic initiative to lure high-frequency traders. Jake Thomases looks at what BM&FBovespa is doing to entice them, including a $200 million platform upgrade, and whether it is producing results. In January...
Waters | Feature | High Frequency Trading | 29 Nov 2011
The recent rogue trading debacle at UBS has once again thrown the issue of corporate fraud into the spotlight. How was another mid-level trader able to circumvent his firm’s risk controls in such a spectacular manner? By Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna Like...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 28 Oct 2011
The impact of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook on personal, commercial and political levels is well established, but what about their implications for financial services? Can the sheer volume of sentiment data generated by these networks...
Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 28 Oct 2011
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