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Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph

Waters | Feature | People | 30 Apr 2013

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May 2013: Talk Can Prove Costly

Most vendors that service capital markets firms have top-notch offerings—anything less, and they wouldn't survive. So how do firms choose? Victor argues that civility can go a long way toward securing a deal.

Waters | Opinion | Organization & Management | 30 Apr 2013

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Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly

Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage,...

Waters | Feature | People | 30 Apr 2013

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Max Bowie: A ‘Search Party’ to Find Missing Alpha in Financial Data

Although bleeding-edge technologies have focused on developing lightning-fast algorithms that cut humans out of the trading process, Max believes natural-language processing, and the often-overlooked fundamentals of search engine technologies, will play...

Waters | Opinion | Market Data Management | 29 Apr 2013

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Michael Shashoua: Pricing’s Progress

A growing drumbeat for greater transparency and credibility in the sourcing of pricing and valuations data is stirring data professionals to improve functions serving these needs. Michael explains how the industry is calling the tune.

Waters | Opinion | Pricing & Valuations | 29 Apr 2013

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James Rundle: The Heat of the Moment

There’s often a pressure to be seen to be nimble and adaptive to the latest technologies, whether it’s cloud, mobility, Big Data or anything else. However, according to James, as budgets get leaner, it’s important for firms to assess whether technologies...

Waters | Opinion | Organization & Management | 26 Apr 2013

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Anthony Malakian: HFT: Enemy of the State

With high-frequency trading existing in a state of uncertainty, the FBI is looking to join the SEC in examining the role algorithmic trading plays in the capital markets. Anthony says this is a good thing.

Waters | Opinion | High Frequency Trading | 26 Apr 2013

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Client Reporting: The Road to Empowerment

Quarterly investment reports have long provided the sandwich filling between investment managers and their clients. Vendors have helped to automate the process, but Steve Dew-Jones considers how technology can take this process to the next level.

Waters | Feature | Buy-Side Operations | 22 Apr 2013

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Regulation Webcast: Risk and Reward

Questions of extraterritoriality, market surveillance and the role of technology when it comes to dealing with new regulation, took precedence during a recent Waters webcast on the topic, along with elements of risk introduced by the sheer number of new...

Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 16 Apr 2013

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What Lies Beneath: An Examination of Risk on the Buy Side (Part 2)

In part two of his examination of risk on the buy side, Anthony Malakian looks at how the regulatory environment is changing the way risk is managed and reported on, and delves into the buy versus build trade-off for risk-related technology.

Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 15 Apr 2013

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