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Yesterday’s vote on final rules governing the operation of swap execution facilities (SEFs) by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was...
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Regulation & Standards | 17 May 2013
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) passed a series of final rules yesterday, designed to govern how swap execution facilities (SEFs) will operate, and how instruments will trade through them.
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Regulation & Standards | 17 May 2013
Fixed-income trading marketplace MTS has announced that it will launch a bond platform for US institutional entities, and has registered a US subsidiary in the process.
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 13 May 2013
A group of back office vendors at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) New York Expo had a chance to brag about the most exciting product they have on offer, or in the works. This is what they offered up.
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 May 2013
A rather grim picture was painted by vendors at the latest New York Expo of the Futures Industry Association. Margins are low on the sell side, which means fewer contracts for the problem solvers in the vendor community. The environment has vendors shrugging...
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 03 May 2013
The Fixed Income Connectivity Working Group (FICWG) has completed its cash bond trading connectivity specification, and signed a number of inter-dealer brokers, exchanges and dealer-to-client platforms as adopters of the standard, expanding the fixed-income...
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Connectivity & Networks | 01 May 2013
Jennifer Costley, director of enterprise architecture at Credit Suisse, is critical of existing data governance structures at large financial institutions. Costley, who spoke at this week’s North American Trading Architecture Summit, says they need...
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 26 Apr 2013
Neil Monaghan, Citi's global head of strategic business initiatives for over-the-counter (OTC) clearing told a North American Trading Architecture Summit audience that everything you thought you knew about post-trade technology is, in the newly cleared...
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Clearing & Settlement | 24 Apr 2013
At this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit conference in Midtown Manhattan, end users discussed the challenges involved in keeping everyone throughout the development cycle in the loop.
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | People | 23 Apr 2013
At this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit in Midtown Manhattan, keynote speaker Tsvi Gal of Morgan Stanley discussed how his firm has employed a new crowdsourcing platform to promote innovation.
Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | People | 23 Apr 2013
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