Emerging Technologies
Can Telecommuting Work on the Buy Side?
Advancements in technology have made it easier than ever for employees to work from home─or at a bar or beach. Capital markets firms are now having to decide how much freedom to let their workers have.
Hubert Holmes Joins Interactive Data As Reference Data MD
The former Xignite, Chi-X and Reuters executive has taken responsibility for Interactive Data's Apex platform
Backstop Acquires PerTrac CMS
Backstop Solutions Group (BSG) has announced the acquisition of PerTrac's CMS product line, which provide customer-relationship management tools for institutional, buy-side clients.
2013 is a Year of Belt Tightening, Say Vendors
A rather grim picture was painted by vendors at the latest New York Expo of the Futures Industry Association. Margins are low on the sell side, which means fewer contracts for the problem solvers in the vendor community. The environment has vendors…
Iyer Joins iLevel
Software product management and marketing veteran Ganesh Iyer joins the Blackstone spin-off after three years at trading communications provider IPC.
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Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph
May 2013: Talk Can Prove Costly
Most vendors that service capital markets firms have top-notch offerings—anything less, and they wouldn't survive. So how do firms choose? Victor argues that civility can go a long way toward securing a deal.
Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly
Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage, and…
Post ‘Hash Crash,’ Social Media Traders Experience Trust Issues
The financial markets are abuzz with the potential of social media as an input to trading decisions. But in the wake of the impact of recent Twitter hacks on the markets, should traders be more careful about the weight they assign “social” data sources?
James Rundle: The Heat of the Moment
There’s often a pressure to be seen to be nimble and adaptive to the latest technologies, whether it’s cloud, mobility, Big Data or anything else. However, according to James, as budgets get leaner, it’s important for firms to assess whether technologies…
MoneyMate Hires Smith for European Sales
Ashley Smith, previously an IBM sales executive, joins MoneyMate to lead the data management provider's European sales
NATAS Panel: Cloud Service Brokerage Isn't Here
Cloud service brokerage — the concept of shopping workload around to multiple cloud providers — was a popular idea at today’s North American Trading Architecture Summit (NATAS). Unfortunately, none of the panelists who addressed it have been able to…