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Cracking the Secret Sauce
Next to low-latency execution, cross-asset trading is one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry today. However, the open secret is that while everyone seems happy to talk about cross-asset trading, very few firms have managed to truly deliver it to…
Report Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters FI News
A comparative analysis of fixed income news coverage from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting reveals that while the two vendors deliver roughly the same number of fixed income news items per day, they differ…
MTFs Urge Consolidated Tape in MiFID Review
Operators of pan-European multilateral trading facilities are calling for this year's review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive to make it easier for trading firms to participate in multiple markets by mandating an affordable means for…
Immediate risks, distant rewards
Research from Greenwich Associates and Omgeo published in February examines more pro-active hedge fund approaches to risk management aimed at dealing with counterparty risk and investor demand. Meanwhile, studies from Tabb Group and Celent Communications…
With a Little Help From Your Friends
Not so long ago, outsourcing part of your infrastructure was anathema to anyone who was interested in bleeding out latency in order to execute high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies. Right-thinking financial technologists knew that everything related to…
Lowering the Bar to High-Frequency Trading
Low-latency trading infrastructure is a must for high-frequency trading, but the costs and knowledge required to optimize and maintain it have kept it out of the hands of most firms. DWT sits down with Dave Malik, director of solutions architecture in…
Lime Branches Out
The growth in high-frequency trading (HFT) is about to bear fruit for New York-based agency broker Lime Brokerage as HFT firms continue to sprout up across the industry.
Reuters, Interactive Eye Integration in 2010
Thomson Reuters and Interactive Data are both making the integration of their respective technology platforms a key priority for 2010, said officials at both vendors' earnings calls last week.
Opportunities and efficiencies
This month's analyst research focuses on three diverse subjects - centralised clearing of OTC instruments; the rise in popularity of commission-sharing agreements; and the development and implementation of high-performance database systems. All three…
Buy-side risk projects set to increase in 2010
Following mounting evidence that risk management processes in the traditional asset management and hedge fund industries proved alarmingly inadequate in the midst of the global credit crisis, investment managers are now intending to beef-up risk…
Reuters: Buy Side Demands Cheaper, Better Data
Buy-side market data consumers are calling on European exchanges and trade reporting facilities to provide real-time trade data as a standalone subscription product, to allow the creation of a consolidated tape of time-and-sales data accessible at a more…
China Data Needs Grow as Market Matures
Annual spend on market data by financial services firms in China is expected to grow rapidly over the next 10 years, reflecting the maturation of the Chinese financial industry and broader user requirements, which is creating opportunities for vendors…
Technology and Voice: The Twin Pillars of Over-the-Counter Fixed-Income Trading
Discussions devoted to the e-execution arms race are widespread, as message latency increasingly is dissected with explorations into optimal system configuration and message streamlining. The quest for "smart speed" has been relentless. As verifiable…
Smaller IT Budgets Push Creativity
The past year has presented new and interesting technological challenges for 2010 to the listed-derivatives industry. First, trading volumes actually declined for the first time in over a decade, but message traffic continued to explode. Second, demand…
High-Frequency Trading: Getting with the Program
What exactly is high-frequency trading (HFT)? Is HFT good for the market or is it synonymous with toxic order flow? Does it fly in the face of anti-competition laws? How many different HFT strategies are there and what differentiates them? These are just…
'More, Faster, Cheaper' to Dominate FX in 2010
Over the past year, the foreign exchange (FX) industry has seen the continual stretch to be the fastest price maker, the unrelenting onslaught of ticket volumes, the shifting sands of ECN rules, the rise of algorithmic execution the ever increasing ranks…
Managing Corporate Actions Risk
Despite industry efforts to reduce financial losses typically associated with corporate actions processing, managing risk remains one of the major challenges for the corporate actions industry. On November 18, Inside Reference Data gathered leading…
Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012
A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions…
Market Insight Requires Agility
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Major European Bank Turns to Aleri
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A Transparent View
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Negotiating Fragmented Markets
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