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First New York Securities' Jean Hill’s Blank Slate

Manhattan-based proprietary trading firm First New York brought Jean Hill on board to build its infrastructure from the ground up. However, there were several points during her career when it looked as though she was destined for any number of paths but...

Waters | Feature | People | 30 Jan 2012

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Hard Coding: The Benefits and Drawbacks of FPGAs

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are being touted in certain circles as the next wave of technology in the financial services industry, gaining adherents for their ability to perform complex tasks at previously inconceivable speeds. However, with...

Waters | Feature | Hardware & Grid | 27 Jan 2012

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Do They Only Like Me for My Algos?

Unlike bulge-bracket firms, mid-tier broker-dealers have to make tough choices about which algorithms to white label and which ones to develop themselves. They want to optimize their value to clients, but aren’t always sure what clients are looking...

Waters | Feature | Algorithmic Trading | 27 Jan 2012

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Credit Trading Gets a Kick

Icap Electronic Broking expects to see dramatic performance improvement in its BrokerTec credit-trading platform, as the firm nears the end of a two-and-a-half-year project to roll out the new global matching-engine architecture. By Rob Daly

Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 27 Jan 2012

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Try Before You Buy: Firms, Vendors Employ Proofs of Concept

Technology vendors were once loath to give away their ideas for free. Financial service firms were similarly unwilling to invest in a project that might be a sunk cost. However, attitudes are changing, and it is now standard for companies to pay for proofs-of-concept...

Waters | Feature | Operations | 27 Jan 2012

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Risk and Compliance: Driven by Data

The efficacy of risk management and compliance practices across the buy side and sell side, two of the most high-profile business drivers for the foreseeable future, is entirely contingent on the quality and consistency of the data feeding those systems....

Waters | Feature | Compliance | 26 Jan 2012

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Numbers Game: Gauging the Impact of Big Data

Big Data is growing and is clearly a driving topic in 2012. As with many recent innovations, however, its definition is amorphous. In the first of a two-part feature, Waters examines exactly what constitutes Big Data, where it comes from, and why it’s...

Waters | Feature | Data Management | 25 Jan 2012

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Olympian Capital Management's Renaissance

After Michael Levas started Olympian Capital Management from his kitchen table in Fort Lauderdale back in 2003, he found that in order to turn the firm into the hedge fund of his dreams he would have to find the right partner. Enter Arun Kaul. By Anthony...

Waters | Feature | People | 09 Jan 2012

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Equities Mask for Derivatives

Concerned about the danger posed by leveraged OTC derivatives, regulation is forcing many of those instruments from a bilaterally traded environment to a publicly traded one. Dealers are preparing for the automation of collateral management and clearing....

Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 09 Jan 2012

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Algo Trading and Fixed Income: Tilting at Windmills

Algorithmic trading is pervasive in equities and other liquid markets, but how far has it penetrated into fixed income? Some fear that the introduction of algorithmic trading strategies into bonds, fixed-income futures and other areas will engender systemic...

Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 09 Jan 2012

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