Analysis

Southport Jumps on DealVector's Business Model

Holders of collateralized loan obligations, mortgage backed securities, and other structured credit have been forced into archaic means of locating each other. DealVector wants to bring that communication into the modern age.

Bitcoin's Regulatory Parade: Justified or Fiasco?

Regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) are examining the virtual currency that has fascinated popular imagination by—as much as they can—treating it as real. Will new…

Armanta CEO: The Risk Paradigm is Broken

Technology is overrated as a means of performing risk analytics, argues Peter Chirlian, CEO of New Jersey-based analytics platform provider Armanta. It’s the people that do the work; technology is little more than a tool.

Managing Data For Efficiency and Cost

Fidelity ActionsXchange’s Deborah Culhane describes the benefits of a data-centric approach to regulatory compliance, and advises on how to evaluate the sustainability of outsourcing for data services

Three Technologists Talk About Justifying ROI

When making a case for the return on investment (ROI) of an IT project, BMO Capital Markets’ head of operations and project delivery doesn’t get too deep. Quantifying ROI is very difficult, argues Naveen Balakrishnan, because the measurables evolve too…

AIFMD's Slow Burn

As one AIFMD-related deadline hits, the industry is still likely a year away from tackling compliance and reporting for this regulatory overhaul. But that doesn't mean firms shouldn't start preparing today.

Mixed Start for SEF Registrations

Although the US Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) has finalized its rules regarding the operation of swap execution facilities (SEFs) and registration has been open for weeks, not all institutions have filed applications with the regulator as…

Counterparty Credit Models Herald New Workflows

Initial cost and hardware limitations are often tallied as potential problems for sell-side firms complying with new capital-charge requirements by optimizing netting strategies and collateral usage. Now those firms face a different challenge: where to…

For Big Data, the Mindset Outweighs the Concept

Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Trading Architecture Summit, held last week in Singapore, discussed the effect of big data on financial services firms, but remained skeptical that the widely debated phenomenon was anything more than a natural evolution…

CIMB Exec Advocates Tech Restraint in APTAS Keynote

Andrew Freyre-Sanders, managing director and head of execution services at CIMB Securities, warned against being swept up in technology arms races and stressed the need for intelligent systems design, while delivering the keynote address for the 2013…

Cost Control Beneficial to Big Bank IT Departments

Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Trading Architecture Summit, held last week in Singapore, debated the current business climate when it comes to infrastructure management, saying that although budgets are tighter, this is introducing a needed element of…

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