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Analysis

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Mad Scientists Creating Black Swans in a Lab

Industry participants discuss the capacity necessary to accommodate black swan spikes, and testing for such spikes in a lab.

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 25 Apr 2012

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Mad Scientists Creating Black Swans in a Lab

Industry participants discuss the capacity necessary to accommodate black swan spikes, and testing for such spikes in a lab.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 25 Apr 2012

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How to Spell the Future of 'SEF'? Aggregation and Consolidation

Tim Bourgaize Murray considers the future once SEFs are operational, including what smaller SEFs might do, how the sell side will leverage its previous advantages, and the lingering challenges that lie ahead.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 23 Apr 2012

Cloud Computing Security

Despite Cloud Security, Performance Concerns, ‘Adopt It Now’

Security still dominates discussions about cloud computing, but some groups such as high-frequency traders are concerned about its lack of high performance. Still, it is clear that the burgeoning technology is taking hold in the financial services industry,...

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Management | 23 Apr 2012

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'Fascinating yet Frightening’: Sell-Side Giants See Promise, Perils in New Swaps Markets

Opportunities for system transformation, better swaps data could go some way toward balancing the costs of new regulation, according to speakers at the North American Trading Architecture Summit in New York on Tuesday.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 20 Apr 2012

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When It Comes to Buy vs. Build, It's Brains vs. Brawn

Panelists at this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit discussed how they went about addressing the buy-versus-build debate in the high-frequency trading space.

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 20 Apr 2012

Cloud technology

Panel: While Cloud Security Concerns Overblown, Perception Matters

Cloud providers’ security might be airtight, but perception matters, and they should go above and beyond to allay customers’ concerns, according to panelists at the North American Trading Architecture Summit this week in New York.

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 19 Apr 2012

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How Should the Industry Measure Latency Performance—and the Measurers?

Cherry-picking and data interpretation strategies remain topics of lively debate.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 19 Apr 2012

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Big Data Panel Dreams Big

More interesting than what Big Data is, is what it could be. Five experts gave their opinions on a Big Data utopia.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Management | 19 Apr 2012

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Post-Trade Risk: Striking the Right Balance

Post-trade risk assessment is poised to grow in importance and deserves the attention of traders as clearing information becomes more available, according to panelists who spoke at the North American Trading Architecture Summit this week in New York....

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Risk Management | 18 Apr 2012

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Active, scalable risk management solution for financial markets

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Operational Impact of Open Symbology on Financial Services

Supporting multiple securities identifiers imposes an operational burden that adds cost and latency to critical trading processes. Bloomberg’s recently...