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SEF Nuances Provide Challenges for Liquidity Aggregation

While liquidity aggregation as a practice is nothing new for market participants, the specific character of Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) and their diversified offerings will lead to new ways of thinking for sell-side firms, research from GreySpark...

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Clearing & Settlement | 09 Oct 2012

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Insights Into Prices

During an Inside Reference Data webcast on September 11, 2012 about prices and valuations, industry experts explained the changes they are making to achieve new levels of transparency and how industry developments are impacting them, writes Nicholas Hamilton...

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Pricing & Valuations | 08 Oct 2012

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Irish Wealth Manager Davy Implements SunGard's Protegent

SunGard says that Davy, an Irish financial services firm, will implement its Protegent Market Abuse solution, to provide surveillance across equity and bond trading operations.

Buy-Side Technology | News | Buy-Side Implementations | 10 Sep 2012

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The Center Ground: CCPs Could Shift—Not Eliminate—Systemic Risk

On July 4, 2012, the Council of the European Union adopted a regulation that will see standardized derivatives contracts in Europe cleared through central counterparties. Designed to reduce systemic risk in the over-the-counter derivatives markets, how...

Waters | Feature | Clearing & Settlement | 01 Aug 2012

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European Council Adopts Derivatives Rules

CCP clearing and trade repository reporting ratified by supranational body.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Clearing & Settlement | 05 Jul 2012

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Vendor Relationships: What Lies Beneath

Consensus among buy-side firms is that there can sometimes be a world of difference between expectations and reality when dealing with a vendor. Steve Dew-Jones canvasses opinion on the most important considerations before awarding a technology or service...

Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 02 Jul 2012

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Big Brother Is Watching: Compliance Envelops the Business

As regulatory reform and an enhanced level of scrutiny falls on practices within investment banks, compliance departments are finding themselves increasingly involved with all areas of a business. In this era of a more proactive approach to oversight,...

Waters | Feature | Compliance | 04 Jun 2012

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Dark Forces: Off-Exchange Trading on the Rise

A growing percentage of trade volumes is moving off-exchange every year, whether it’s through broker dark pools, internalized on a firm’s own desks, or elsewhere. Along with declining liquidity in equities markets and higher trading costs, the increasing...

Waters | Feature | Exchange Technologies | 03 May 2012

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UK Kay Review Demonstrates Antipathy towards HFT

Respondents also hesitant about liquidity fragmentation.

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Algorithmic Trading | 01 Mar 2012

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Many Fingers In Many Pies

Diversification is the key for exchange growth, it seems.

Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Exchange Technologies | 17 Feb 2012

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