Articles by Anthony Malakian
As the Japanese Market Matures, Risk Checks Take Center Stage
During a panel discussion at this year's Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit, end users talked about how they are investing in new technologies for pre- and post-trade risk checks, and how these solutions are becoming a competitive differentiator.
Dark Pools Are Growing, but Regulations Loom
According to studies conducted by consultancy Celent, dark pool trading in the US has steadily risen since 2008.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform — smartTrade Technologies
As the foreign-exchange (FX) market becomes increasingly automated and sophisticated, smartTrade Technologies has been carving out a niche for itself, while also making inroads into the lucrative fixed-income market. These efforts have led to the vendor…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative — Pershing
For banks, the ability to untether their workforce from their desks has become a key area of focus, especially when it comes to investment advisement. Pershing, through its NetExchange Mobile service, has aggressively rolled out new mobile functionality…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Datacenter Provider to the Sell Side — Nasdaq OMX
There’s an arms race currently under way in the datacenter space that requires contenders to either build new and costly state-of-the-art facilities, or retrofit current datacenters in order to compete with other market players. Nasdaq OMX opted for the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform — SmartStream
SmartStream has a motto: Reconciliations is more than just matching. While the matching process is no doubt vital, true reconciliation requires seeing an order throughout the lifecycle of a trade through to resolution, says Tim Martin, product manager of…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side — Saxo Bank
When you think of a bank, it’s unlikely that you think of it as an outsourcer. Sure, banks use outsourced services and provide a range of technology and operational services to buy-side clients, but they don’t usually market themselves as an outsourcer…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Compliance Product — Citicom
Of all regulations with which sell-side technologists must ensure compliance, capturing, storing, and retrieving voice and text data for trading staff ranks among the most onerous. Citicom Solutions, through its Assure platform, is tackling this…
HFT Profits Down as Concerns Grow
At the recent Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit, Neil Katkov, senior vice president of the Asia region for Celent, laid out the state of high-frequency trading (HFT) in the US and discussed what might lie ahead for Japan.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Bloomberg
Scratch just below the surface of most trading firms and you’re likely to find a Bloomberg terminal. At most tier-one or tier-two sell-side institutions, Bloomberg’s Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) network is equally…
Anthony Malakian: Can 10,000 Needles Rouse a Bear Economy?
Thanks to a new three-tiered economic plan and relative stability at the top of the Japanese government, there is some hope that Japan will jolt its sluggish economy—though many still have their doubts. But Anthony says that hope and stability are…
The Cost of Co-Location and When to Make a Move
At this year's Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit, panelists discussed the costs of implementing a co-location strategy. This is part two of a three-part Q&A.
Japanese Firms Weigh Benefits, Costs of Joining the Latency Race
At this year's Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit, panelists discussed how firms have chased latency improvements, while balancing cost and time to market. Some ultimately decide to change course.
The Roadblocks to Investing in Innovation
In part three of a three-part series, members of Japan's trading community discuss the decisions they have to make about what to invest in, and what will have to wait for another day.
Japan's Trading Firms Work to Automate FX, Fixed-Income Platforms
At this year's Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit, panelists for two Japanese trading firms discussed how they're working to automate their systems.
JPX Brings Tech Innovation to the Market, ‘Oligopoly' Concerns Remain
Panelists at this year's Tokyo Trading Architecture Summit discussed what the merger of the Tokyo and Osaka exchanges will mean for the Japanese market in the future.
Moving Mission-Critical Functions to the Cloud
Anthony believes that more firms are moving mission critical functions to the cloud. As they do, though, it's important to note that there's a major difference between a public and private cloud.
BYOD, Mobile Offer Banks a Chance to ‘Get Cool Again'
As bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies grow inside banks, mobile data management has also emerged as a pressing issue, according to panelists at this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit.
Caplin's Patrick Myles on Navigating HTML5 Libraries, Tools
At this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit, Patrick Myles, CTO at software provider Caplin Systems, discussed the future of trading front-ends, and how HTML5 will serve a key role. Despite the programming language's promise, there are…
Exploring the Buy Side in Japan
Anthony previews two events that will unfold over the coming two weeks.
Heartbleed Bug Demonstrates Challenges Around Cyber Security
Earlier this week, a major hole in the OpenSSL open-source cryptography library was reported. The bug, dubbed Heartbleed, may affect 66 percent of the SSL servers on the Internet, according Internet research firm Netcraft.
Sussman Jumps to Liquidnet, Ready to Enter HFT Debate
Liquidnet has announced that Adam Sussman will join as its head of market structure and liquidity partnerships.
For Fatca Compliance, Banks Work to Create Internal Data Hubs
At a conference hosted by Waters' sibling publication OpRisk, panelists discussed the technological pain points that surround compliance with new Fatca guidelines. The key hurdle is clear: integrating disparate systems in order to more efficiently share…
What Do You Mean, Rigged?
The book "Flash Boys" has proven to be something of a tipping point against high-frequency traders. But are the markets really rigged against the retail investor?