Analysis
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Performance Measurement and Attribution Product─BI-SAM
Paris-based BI-SAM, like Rimes and Markit EDM, has reaped the rewards of maintaining its focus on its target market—buy-side performance measurement and attribution—although, in recent years, it has added client reporting and risk functionality to its B…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service─ConvergEx Group (Abraxas)
Abraxas was a Gnostic deity believed to be the god of light and darkness. If you’re going to create an algorithm to seek out both dark and lit liquidity, there’s not a more apt name, although it’s the cleverness of this offering that won ConvergEx Group…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side OMS─ConvergEx's Eze OMS
The role of the order management system (OMS) has been changing for some time now. In recent years the buy side has been feverishly investing to integrate their OMSs with their execution management systems (EMSs), accounting, and transaction-cost…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side EMS─Portware
Just as RealTick won the execution management system (EMS) award last year after being bought by ConvergEx, Portware earned the win in this perennially competitive category thanks largely to an acquisition of its own. In May, the company acquired a suite…
Bending the Rules
Innovative use-cases at BNY Mellon and M&T Bank highlight how technology can better harness “data in motion,” just as firms are evolving the way their applications are controlled and behave. By Tim Bourgaize Murray
Risk's Regulatory Whirlwind
Regulatory uncertainty once again dominated discussions during a recent risk and compliance webcast, with the main concern relating to how much time firms will have to make necessary changes to their risk strategies. By Steve Dew-Jones
Predictions About Final SEF Headcount Drop
As the real-live launch of real-life swap execution facilities (SEFs) draws closer, a group of derivative experts predict that there will be fewer entrants than previously estimated.
eVestment's Minnick Discusses Recent Acquisitions
Jim Minnick, eVestment Alliance's founder and CEO, sat down with Buy-Side Technology to discuss the firm's recent acquisitions and look ahead at what's to come.
Exchange Competition Just a Veneer, Says Aquis Chief
Alasdair Haynes, CEO at the newly formed Aquis Exchange suggests there is much room for improvement within the exchange world in terms of competition and innovation.
MEP Says No to Minimum Resting Times
Kay Swinburne, member of the EU's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, believes minimum resting times for orders will not make it into the final drafting of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II).
WFE Chief Urges Regulators to Embrace Technology
Regulators need to appreciate the positive impact that technology has had upon the capital markets and not fear its use within them, according to Hüseyin Erkan, CEO of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
Cloud's Green Reputation May Be Overblown
Cloud computing provides obvious efficiencies in both cost and energy consumption. But behind the good vibes are some overlooked ways that large datacenters may be hurting the environment.
Performance Anxiety: Buy Side Addresses Attribution Concerns
As investor sophistication increases, so do the demands that they place on investment managers to meet and exceed specific benchmarks, and to provide more frequent and transparent reporting. But these demands come with a cost—both for investors and the…
HTML5 the Future for Web-Based Trading Apps
A survey of over 300 app developers within the financial services industry suggests that HTML5 is the future platform upon which web-based trading apps will be built.
ASIC Considers Kill Switch Introduction
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), plans to release a new set of rules for automated trading this week, chief among which will be the introduction of circuit breakers for brokers.
Can Vendors Ease Compliance Burden?
As yet another regulatory reform takes effect—the European Securities and Markets Authority's regulation on short selling—Imagine Software's Brian Miranda says firms are struggling under the weight of it all.
Fifty Percent Not Preparing for T+2, Says Omgeo Survey
A study conducted by post-trade specialist Omgeo has found that half of the respondents are not preparing for a shortening of trade settlement cycles, despite an impending legislative requirement in Europe to do so.
Deutsche Bank Offers Outsourced Trade Cycle with dbIntegrate
Deutsche Bank has announced the launch of its dbIntegrate service, which utilizes the bank's venue connectivity and post-trade experience for a front-to-back office equities trading solution.
Data Volume, Velocity Necessitates In-Motion Analytics
David Wallace, global financial services marketing manager at Cary, NC-headquartered analytics provider SAS, says firms need in-motion analytics if they are to cope with the sheer volume and velocity of data today.
Increasing FX Venues Provide Options, Not Volume
At the recent FPL Americas conference in New York, a panel debated the cost/benefit of the raft of new foreign exchange ECNs that have popped up lately.
HFT's Delicate Balance
During a recent high-frequency trading webcast, industry leaders discussed the difficulties around creating an effective HFT environment, how to manage those costs, and how the market is evolving. It’s a delicate balance, but a necessary one for any…
Maximized Analysis
The ability to grasp big data and gain competitive advantage based on how a firm manages and leverages that data will differentiate financial institutions, says Barbara Ridpath, of the International Centre for Financial Regulation
Nomura Overhauls Derivatives Operations with Fidessa
Global investment bank Nomura is set to upgrade its derivatives trading operations using technology from Fidessa, the third such large-scale implementation that the vendor has engaged in over recent months.
Rogue Trading: Leaving Less to Fate
The destinies of fallen traders Jérôme Kerviel and Kweku Adoboli are a matter to be settled, but what firms' compliance desks should be concerned with is clear: The more you know about a rogue trader, the more he or she begins to stand out.