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Identifying LEI Opportunities and Challenges

The rollout of the legal entity identifier offers firms an opportunity to improve their onboarding processes and bring together valuable data sets, but...

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 07 May 2013

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Rise of the CDO

Over the past year, the ranks of chief data officers at major financial services firms have been increasing. Michael Shashoua examines why and what this means for data management

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Data Management | 03 May 2013

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JP Morgan, Northern Trust Search For Data Quality

In an Inside Reference Data webcast, panelists shared the factors driving their work to improve upon data quality, and the obstacles affecting those efforts. Michael Shashoua reports

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Data Management | 01 May 2013

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60 Seconds with ...

Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph

Waters | Feature | People | 30 Apr 2013

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Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly

Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage,...

Waters | Feature | People | 30 Apr 2013

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Client Reporting: The Road to Empowerment

Quarterly investment reports have long provided the sandwich filling between investment managers and their clients. Vendors have helped to automate the process, but Steve Dew-Jones considers how technology can take this process to the next level.

Waters | Feature | Buy-Side Operations | 22 Apr 2013

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Down Mexico Way: Will State-of-the-Art Tech Lure Liquidity?

Sensing an opportunity as the local economic picture continues to shine, the Mexican stock exchange last year installed a matching engine with significantly better latency and throughput. The technology is unquestionably in place, but will liquidity follow?...

Waters | Feature | Exchange Technologies | 18 Apr 2013

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Regulation Webcast: Risk and Reward

Questions of extraterritoriality, market surveillance and the role of technology when it comes to dealing with new regulation, took precedence during a recent Waters webcast on the topic, along with elements of risk introduced by the sheer number of new...

Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 16 Apr 2013

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What Lies Beneath: An Examination of Risk on the Buy Side (Part 2)

In part two of his examination of risk on the buy side, Anthony Malakian looks at how the regulatory environment is changing the way risk is managed and reported on, and delves into the buy versus build trade-off for risk-related technology.

Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 15 Apr 2013

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Exchanges, Brokers Face HFT Surveillance Challenge

Although the benefits and drawbacks of high-frequency and algorithmic trading have been debated endlessly, the ability to perform competent and reliable surveillance on these operations is an area often relegated to the back rooms of conferences. James...

Waters | Feature | Compliance | 10 Apr 2013

Voting now open -- WATERS RANKINGS 2013

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Our 11th annual survey is now open and you get the chance to choose your best solutions and technology providers. Waters Rankings 2013 features 26 hotly contested awards - so have your say.

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Latest Whitepapers

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Key challenges in data architecture

Complex, dated and unwieldy data infrastructure is not uncommon among even the most progressive companies in the world of finance. As financial regulations...

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Key challenges in legal entity identification

With the launch of a new legal entity identifier (LEI) looming, the financial services industry needs to get ready to ensure efficient and timely implementation...