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Once More Unto the Cloud, Dear Friends

At Monday's Waters USA conference I had an interesting conversation with DataArt's Alexei Miller. He says that for all the talk about cloud technology,...

Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Buy-Side Operations | 09 Dec 2011

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Regulatory Environment Hinders Cloud Adoption

At Monday's Waters USA event, many of the industry's top CTOs and CIOs couldn't avoid the topic of the cloud. It seems, however, that regulations have thrown up roadblocks on the path to cloud adoption. By Anthony Malakian "There's so much hype around...

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Management | 09 Dec 2011

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Will Regulators Kill the Cloud?

The industry dodged a bullet by adopting cloud computing when it did. I realized this at the Waters USA conference in New York this week. Regulatory changes taking place in the global markets will definitely have an impact on firms’ infrastructure...

Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Hardware & Grid | 09 Dec 2011

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Waters USA: CTOs See Flat IT Spending in 2012

Technology spending by buy-side and sell-side firms will remain flat—roughly equaling budgets in 2011, and in some cases, 2010—according to CIOs and CTOs who spoke at the Waters USA congress in New York this week. "The budget will be same as last...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Events | 09 Dec 2011

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Data as Regulatory Inoculation

Competent data management, enhanced by centralized data analytics, improves the credibility of the industry's argument that regulators don't understand what really makes for transparent and well-supervised markets

Inside Reference Data | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 08 Dec 2011

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Smart Order Routing: Dancing with the Devil

Because brokers receive next to nothing in commissions, it is accepted that brokers program their SORs to visit their own dark pool first. That can easily be undone, but the only way to do it is by asking. By Jake Thomases Buy-side firms need not wonder...

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Algorithmic Trading | 07 Dec 2011

Waters USA 2010: 2011—Eking Out Efficiencies

Shortly after the keynote address delivered by Andrew Silverman, managing director and co-head of Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET), at this year’s Waters USA conference held in New York on December 6, the spotlight settled on five CIOs—Peter...

Waters | Feature | Events | 10 Jan 2011

Waters USA 2010: Self-Regulated or Over-Regulated—The Industry Must Choose

Early in the morning on December 6, Andrew Silverman, managing director and co-head of Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET), presented the standing-room-only audience at the Waters USA 2010 conference a choice as sharp as the winter weather outside:...

Waters | Feature | Events | 10 Jan 2011

Waters USA 2010: Regulation’s Children

Untangling multiple trade entry and trade management systems, setting up a low-latency infrastructure and building post-trade processing capabilities will be necessary to meet regulatory demands on trading floors, according to industry executives who...

Waters | Feature | Events | 10 Jan 2011

Waters USA 2010: Don’t Expect HFT to Slow Down

If we can’t regulate ourselves, then so be it—regulate us—because right now the system doesn’t work,” says Young Kang, global head of algorithmic products at Citi. This was a common theme that emerged at the Waters USA 2010 conference in New...

Waters | Feature | Events | 10 Jan 2011

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