Best execution
Best Execution special report
September 2010 - sponsored by: Sybase
Weathering the Storm
Exchanges
Overcoming the Options Dilemma
As more institutional investors open their portfolios to equity options, sell-side broker-dealers face the challenge of executing instructional-sized orders in a market that is typically less liquid than equities.
Natural affinity
For fund managers seeking high-frequency trading capabilities, the standard build-versus-buy proposition is no longer wholly pertinent – and for good reason. The advent of complex event processing technology has provided a third viable option. By Stewart…
CEP Gets Owned
They say that one man's misfortune is another's opportunity. And industry participants and observers gave Sybase's acquisition of complex event processing software vendor Aleri's assets last week a warm response, saying that whatever misfortune prompted…
Data Veterans Engage Industry Leaders To Create a Central Counterparty for Data Management
NEW YORK - US-based data specialists are engaging C-level executives at global firms to set up the Central Counterparty for Data Management (CCDM), an initiative focused on global data standardization and cleansing in the financial services industry,…
Is Sub-Penny Pricing Just Common Cents?
This Monday, the Nasdaq Options Market and its PHLX market (the former Philadelphia Stock Exchange) will expand the pilot program of quoting options contracts in one-cent increments to a further 75 IWM and SPY option issues, joining the QQQQ options…
Editor's Letter - The greed for speed
Speed is good. At least, when it comes to the increasingly popular phenomenon of high-frequency trading it is. Speed plays such a crucial role in this respect that if it were absent, high-frequency trading (HFT) would simply be known as... trading.
Transaction monitoring: driving efficiency in real-time trading
The dire effects of the recession on certain financial services firms has forced CIOs and other IT managers to examine new technologies that could improve online transactional efficiencies across all aspects of the business. As early adopters of…
Can HFTs Flourish in FX?
After attending an industry gathering focused on high-frequency trading in foreign exchange (FX), co-hosted by Icap and high-frequency trading incubator Trade Cross Connects, the various panel conversations left me wondering whether high-frequency…
New Year Brings New Risk Management for BNY ConvergEx
In the past few quarters, agency brokerage BNY ConvergEx has seen explosive growth through a number of strategic acquisitions, namely the Nyfix Millennium crossing network. It has also stepped into the role of technology provider with its development of…