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Corporate Actions Looks to the SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS), a well known model in the financial industry, is making its way into the corporate actions world. Carla Mangado explores why it is gaining momentum, and to what extent it has the potential to become the preferred model for…
The Utility Track
As regulatory debates focus on systemic risk, market participants are finding new ways to ensure data becomes part of the legislative agenda. Initiatives in both Europe and the US are focused on building new data infrastructures to mitigate risk and…
Performance precedents
Performance measurement, has in recent years moved into the front office, as buy-side firms look to integrate performance into a single, integrated platform. This move has been accompanied by compressed reporting timeframes and the emergence of risk as…
Dark pools: What lies beneath?
Regulators in the US and Europe are keeping an eye on how dark execution venues operate. Do they need to be more transparent in their operations? Although no concrete proposals have been forthcoming, any regulations are set to have a profound impact on…
Giving Back
COVER STORY
Taming the beast
OTC derivatives market participants have known for some time that the days of dealing with nary a regulator in sight were numbered. However, the US Treasury Department recently issued its most concrete regulatory suggestion, even though many of the…
Recognizing Excellence
WATERS RANKINGS
Taming the Beast
COMPLIANCE
The Raw Truth
The concept of integrating data sources and creating a golden copy has long been seen as the best way to resolve reference data challenges, but with volatile market conditions firms are increasingly reviewing opportunities for granting users access to…
Back to basics
Linedata Services has always been one of the most progressive providers of technology to the buy side in terms of the depth and maturity of its ASP offerings. Linedata's Mike Medley explains how Linedata's hosted services clients - traditionally smaller…
Perfect Partners
The hosted services model is not a new phenomenon to the financial services industry. But during these testing times it has become more relevant to buy side firms offering managers the benefits of fixed IT costs, reduced time to market for new…
The TCO conundrum
Implementations can be beset by unforeseen hiccups, which tends to result in inflated budgets and missed deadlines. SmartStream's TLM OnDemand addresses users' total cost of ownership challenges and provides buy-side firms with reduced time to market…
Pricing imperfections
Allocating a definitive and transparent price to an asset for which no active market exists is a process mired in complexity and controversy. David Patrikarakos investigates the new generation of valuation models to address the pricing and valuations…
Data, Where It’s Needed
Cover Story
Regulators Eye Dark Pools
COMPLIANCE
Capacity Planning
Datacenters
Pursuit of Power Management
Datacenters
Risk in progress
For years, the notion of real-time risk management to better inform buy-side traders prior to making executions has proven elusive. And now that lessons learned from the ongoing global financial crisis continue to mount, the value of real-time pre-trade…
Great expectations
Institutional investors are driving the buy side in terms of the adoption of best practices and the technology that underpins such initiatives. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the client reporting realm where institutional players have come to…
European Insecurities
Exchanges
Turquoise Launches Latency Monitoring
Exchanges
Nordic Conquest
Exchanges
Clear Skies
Cover story
XBRL: The Corporate Actions Solution?
The much-discussed data tagging standard, extensible business reporting language (XBRL), is increasingly referred to as an upcoming turning point for the corporate actions industry, helping to standardize announcements at the source level. Carla Mangado…