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CME Group: New Trading Floor, New Datacenter, New Targets
It wasn’t so long ago that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was lagging behind its European competitors. But under the leadership of CEO Craig Donohue and CIO Kevin Kometer, the futures exchange has massively extended its footprint and has welcomed a new…
TIAA-CREF: Ahead of the Enterprise Curve
One doesn’t become one of the largest, most reputable institutional investment managers on the planet without keeping a firm handle on risk. TIAA-CREF’s plans to develop an enterprise-wide risk management infrastructure were well underway by the time the…
Prime Brokers in Demand
After the inherent dangers in the captive, prime-broker model were brought to bear with the collapse of Lehman, hedge funds have scrambled to diversify counterparty risk by embracing the multi-prime model. Prime brokers have tracked this trend to the…
The Heavy Burden of Automating Cash Management Processes
As firms continue to tighten their belts in preparation for what might be the start of a double-dip recession, most companies are casting their gaze at their treasury department to see how it can manage its cash resources more effectively. However, many…
IBM: Operational Challenges and Risk Concerns Still to the Fore Post-Crisis
Industry regulators and financial services executives still cannot rest easy as they continue to grapple with the operational challenges and risk concerns introduced on the back of the two-year capital markets downturn. These are some of the findings…
The Struggle to Implement Dodd-Frank Act Changes
Surveys of financial services industry CEOs and operations executives find that a majority recognize that the US Dodd-Frank Act and the SEC’s implementation thereof will force them to change their business models. Yet the same researchers indicate that…
Leveling the Latency Playing Field
As high-frequency trading continues to get a bad rap, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission floats a number of ideas to level the playing field when it comes to co-location and proximity hosting services. Are they practical and will they work? By…
Addressing Real-Time Deficiencies
Recent crises have drummed home that banks need to calculate risk exposures in as close to real time as possible. To do that, risk managers must process huge amounts of data, but current systems often lack the capability. How can banks address this…
Entity Data: Know Your Exposure
Know Your Exposure
The New Counterparty Data Attributes
At a time of regulatory uncertainty and calls for increased transparency, the importance of counterparty data quality is high up the agenda, and the focus is now on adding more data fields. Ensuring access to more attributes has become a priority, says…
OFR: Setting Reference Data Standards
OFR: The Road to Standardization
Corporate Actions: The Recruitment Challenge
In on the Actions
Awaiting the MiFID Review
MiFID Machinations
Vaden’s Vision: Nomura’s Drew Vaden Drives US Expansion
Nomura’s Drew Vaden talks to Anthony Malakian about his plans to grow Nomura Holdings and challenge the existing Wall Street hierarchy
Meeting the FIX Family
Tanzeel Akhtar meets up with a number of the protocol's early European adopters and looks at how FIX has become the most pervasive technology across our industry.
New Skills of the Trade
Joe Morgan looks at how buy-side traders have had to adapt their skills as sophisticated technologies and trading practices continue to evolve.
