Articles by Rob Daly
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Risk Analytics Initiative: LCH.Clearnet
JUDGE’S COMMENT: The re-write of LCH.Clearnet’s legacy system and improvements of the risk management system is pretty dramatic given its old infrastructure. Now that the platform can calculate daily margin runs in 10 minutes rather than an hour,…
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Global Deployment: BNY Mellon
JUDGE’S COMMENT: Simplifying OTC client reporting is an important goal for any firm, but having this live in more than 10 countries at this point in time is a job well done.
Rob Daly: Financial Technology’s Future Is in the Cards
What is in store for the industry for the coming year? Rob turns to a centuries-old practice to find out.
Year of the Dealer
With the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) promising to complete its rulemaking requirements under Dodd–Frank later this quarter, many in the industry are looking at 2012 as the year of the swap execution facility (SEF). It is too early to…
BT Grows North American VPN Footprint
Telecommunications provider BT has added five new nodes to its BT Ethernet Connect global Ethernet virtual private network (VPN).
Happy Holidays!
As I write this last editor’s letter of 2011—Sell-Side Technology coverage will resume the first week of 2012—the yard is nothing but brown grass. Intermittent wet snow is falling and melting as soon as it hits the ground. Short of a Christmas miracle,…
A WILD Look Into 2012
Even in the 21st century, women represent a small proportion of financial technologists. Sell-Side Technology sits down with Jessica Titlebaum, one of the co-founders of Women in Listed Derivatives (WILD) to discuss what is in store for women in capital…
SunGard Consolidates Sell-Side Units
SST has learned that SunGard is restructuring some of its sell-side business units as global trading president Raj Mahajan leaves the company.
Rob Daly: Saying Good-Bye to Awful 2011
When it began, 2011 promised to bring major changes due to numerous regulatory developments. But deadlines passed, budgets shrank and many important decisions wound up in limbo, leaving the industry in a poor state. Rob looks back at the some of 2011’s…
Financial Tech Talk: Living with SEC Rule 15c3-5
The new pre-trade risk and capital check Rule 15c3-5 takes effect on Nov. 30. Is the industry ready?
