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While it hasn’t gotten the attention it did during the green wave of the mid-2000s, environmentally friendly technology is in place at many of the world’s major financial institutions. Jake Thomases looks at the latest initiatives designed to save...
Waters | Feature | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Mar 2012
As the Financial Stability Board (FSB) continues its work to establish a global legal entity identifier (LEI), Nicholas Hamilton explores the crucial decisions it will have to make before presenting its conclusions in June
Inside Reference Data | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 07 Mar 2012
Risk analytics professionals, spurred by new regulation and legal entity standards, are considering the need for counterparty risk data systems to better support their efforts to comply. Inside Reference Data gathered a panel of leading industry experts...
Inside Reference Data | Feature | Data Management | 06 Mar 2012
ISINs may not be be appropriate for identifying every over-the-counter derivative, creating a challenge for instrument identification. Nicholas Hamilton reports on efforts to find a fitting standards format in the asset class
Inside Reference Data | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 05 Mar 2012
The phenomenon of Big Data, now a proper noun in its own right, reflects the inexorable growth of data volumes, and the velocity and variety of those volumes, across the financial services industry, presenting market participants with a host of operational...
Waters | Feature | Data Management | 24 Feb 2012
Foreign-exchange trading has changed considerably over the past 10 years. Daily turnover has doubled, spreads have tightened dramatically, and the market has opened up to new entrants as never before. At the heart of this is a shift to electronic trading....
Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 24 Feb 2012
William O’Brien, who once rejected his exchange roots, took over a tiny ECN and grew it into one of the biggest equity exchanges in the world. Now he’s looking at new markets for Direct Edge. By Jake Thomases
In the February issue of Waters, the first part of this feature defined Big Data in terms of volume, variety and velocity. But what does this actually mean for the financial services industry and the technology considerations necessary for dealing with...
Waters | Feature | Data Management | 24 Feb 2012
Call auctions are one of the oldest forms of stock trading. Plenty of people would like to have an auction option, yet no such system has existed for more than a decade. AX Trading is giving an electronic version another shot. By Jake Thomases
Waters | Feature | Exchange Technologies | 24 Feb 2012
In light of the global regulatory environment and firms looking to become more efficient while cutting costs, data quality has become a focal point for many technologists. However, the challenges are many and there’s still confusion as to who owns the...
Waters | Feature | Data Management | 23 Feb 2012
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New regulations such as Basel III are changing trading and risk practices by rewarding banks that actively manage their risk exposure at an enterprise...
Supporting multiple securities identifiers imposes an operational burden that adds cost and latency to critical trading processes. Bloomberg’s recently...