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Wall Street Bites the Big Apple

Jon Baum, CEO of Dreyfus, a US mutual fund and wholly owned subsidiary of $925 billion Manhattan-based BNY Mellon Asset Management, has provided Apple iPads to 90 of his sales and marketing staff, describing the device as a “game changer.” Similarly,...

Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 31 Mar 2011

Great Expectations for 2011

If the analysts are to be believed, 2011 will be a year of increased regulation and more stringent risk management practices across a financial services industry showing the first signs of meaningful growth after years in the doldrums. Waters speaks to...

Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 10 Jan 2011

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Turning Point for Financial Services in 2011

Crystal balls in hand, industry watchers predict that in 2011, the new best-of-breed trading systems will be those that integrate front-, middle- and back-office functions; third-party technology will trump in-house-built systems; flexibility in back-office...

Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 30 Nov 2010

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The Dream of a Common Cloud

Are we past the hype about cloud computing and into the stage of “it’s here; what are we going to do with it?” It would seem so. Most every investment bank is employing, or in the process of creating, some sort of cloud strategy, though some are...

Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 16 Jul 2010

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Pulling together

Wall Street’s bulge-bracket brokers have in recent months encroached on their smaller counterparts by poaching their hedge fund clients. But as Anthony Malakian reports, this isn’t necessarily a bad development as brokers look to work together to...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 08 Apr 2010

Editor's Letter - Convergence comes home

For a number of years now, Buy-Side Technology has reported on and generally pushed the idea that the buy side is converging from a business and functionality (technology) perspective. Just over two years ago we held a roundtable discussion in New York...

Buy-Side Technology | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Apr 2010

OTC Derivatives Oversight Strengthened

The US President's Working Group (PWG) on Financial Markets last month announced a series of initiatives to strengthen oversight and the infrastructure of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market.

Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Dec 2008

Saxo Bank Overhauls Data Systems to Comply With MiFID Requirements

COPENHAGEN-Denmark-based Saxo Bank has completed a data management systems update to ensure compliance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), which became law in Europe on November 1, officials tell Inside Reference Data. Saxo's...

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Nov 2007

Banks Say RegNMS Means Saving All Data

NEW YORK-Data storage is likely to be the area requiring the highest expenditure following the introduction of Regulation NMS (RegNMS) in the US, according to panellists at the SIFMA Technology Management Conference in New York in June.Industry bodies...

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Jul 2007

Let the Games Begin

This week, most North American financial technologists will descend on the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan for the annual rite of passage: the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and Exhibition....

Sell-Side Technology | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 18 Jun 2007

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