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There is a general consensus that businesses have several sources of working capital that they can attempt to access. The first is to generate it from profits, which is achievable if customers pay promptly. The second is to go to shareholders and apply...
Waters | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Sep 2011
For the complex and compute-intensive process of pricing sophisticated derivatives, assess your internal resources before investing in expensive compute farms, says Aleksey Maslov, senior associate at strategy and technology consultancy Lab49 In the...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Infrastructure Technologies | 22 Aug 2011
When fortunes can be made or lost in a microsecond, testing your network against the dangers of microbursts demands unprecedented levels of precision, says Daryl Cornelius, enterprise director at Spirent Communications. High-frequency trading generates...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Data Delivery Technologies | 04 Jul 2011
To compete in today’s markets, firms must process increasing amounts of data, while avoiding the cost and complexity that new feeds and sources typically entail. Philip Sparacino, executive vice president at Collaborative Software Initiative, says data...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Data Management | 13 Jun 2011
In electronic trading, speed matters. That’s why over the last five years, brokerages have embraced co-location and proximity trading—moving their servers close to the matching engines of trading venues—to gain advantages of a few milliseconds per...
After the post-financial crisis blood-letting, data companies and financial firms are hiring again, but are being more discerning about who and how they hire. In his second article on the data job market, Charles Fiori examines how employers are now approaching...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 07 Feb 2011
As competitive and regulatory forces drive greater adoption of technology from risk management to high-frequency trading, firms are realizing that the next big advantage isn't high-frequency trading but data management, and that any initiative must begin...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 04 Jun 2010
In the wake of the downturn, financial institutions are relying on their trading and compliance technology to support their businesses in more ways than ever before. They need it to be robust enough to deal with the rigours of an increasingly complex...
Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Business Continuity & Outsourcing | 01 Apr 2010
The dust has started to settle now that the most acute phase of the financial services meltdown appears to be over, allowing market participants to assess their operational and technology deficiencies. Two activities to emerge as areas for concern are...
Waters | Opinion | Risk Management | 01 Apr 2010
It's time to reform buy-side and broker-dealer settlement standards to avert another financial crisis. By Joe Anastasio
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