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Waters Rankings' Best Outsourcing Provider: IBM

1. IBM 18.7%2. Accenture 16.5%3. Hewlett-Packard 14.3% In a time when capital and operational budgets remain tight, outsourcing IT processes and kit become more and more attractive for financial institutions. With the number of new services that IBM...

Waters | Special | Awards & Rankings | 01 Aug 2011

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Duncan Leaves IBM for State Street

Suzanne Duncan has joined State Street as a senior vice president, effective June 6. In her new role, she will start and lead new research efforts at the firm. Duncan previously was industry leader, financial markets, at the IBM Institute for Business...

Sell-Side Technology | News | People | 01 Aug 2011

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It’s a Wrap: SIFMA 2011 in Review

The theme of recent SIFMA events—low latency—was still much in evidence at this year’s show, with network and latency monitoring technology vendor Endace taking the revered former Quotron/Reuters booth, though last week Cloud was the buzzword on...

Inside Market Data | Special | Events | 20 Jun 2011

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Anthony Malakian: Rise of the Machines

We really aren’t that far from machines taking over the world. Believe me, my friends, Skynet, the diabolical self-aware network from The Terminator, is not far from becoming reality. The lack of a Y2K catastrophe must have lulled us into a false...

Waters | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 31 Mar 2011

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Opening Cross: Low Latency Isn’t Just About Low Latency

In last week’s column, I discussed the importance of low-latency data, whether or not you’re active in low-latency trading. And this week’s news makes it hard for me to resist returning to the topic again. Now, I know some of our readers who deal...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Latency | 28 Mar 2011

CodeStreet Readies MQ Replay, EU Ops

New York-based data technology vendor CodeStreet will next month roll out a version of its ReplayService for IBM’s WebSphere MQ messaging, to help firms standardize their use of different data messaging platforms. CodeStreet already offers versions...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Delivery Technologies | 21 Mar 2011

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Mexico's Exchange: A Blooming Dahlia

Co-location and algorithmic trading, such essential components of the execution landscape, are nothing new in the US and Europe, where they have played a major role in the growth of those markets. Now Mexico’s Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) securities...

Waters | Feature | Exchanges | 31 Jan 2011

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Mexican CSD Halves Liquidity Requirement with IBM ILog

Mexico's Indeval central securities depository (CSD) has increased its operations volume by 26 percent and reduced liquidity requirements by 52 percent, with near-real-time processing, since it began using IBM ILog CPlex Optimization Studio about 18 months...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Clearing & Settlement | 07 Jan 2011

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Royal Bank of Canada Readies Low-Latency Trading Platform

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is in the midst of deploying a new global low-latency trading platform for cash equities in a bid to catapult its electronic trading offering into the top 10 of those provided by investment banks. RBC expects to roll out the...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 13 Dec 2010

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IBM: Increased Demand for Hosted Private Clouds, Community Clouds

Recently, Options IT announced a partnership with IBM that will leverage the software giant's BladeCenter technology. Buy-Side Technology asked Lauren States, vice president of cloud computing at IBM Software, if she is seeing increased demand for cloud...

Buy-Side Technology | Q&A | Data Management | 08 Nov 2010

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Complex, dated and unwieldy data infrastructure is not uncommon among even the most progressive companies in the world of finance. As financial regulations...

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