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Editor's Letter - Making a molehill out of a mountain

Technology, especially when it comes to the financial services industry, can be pretty dreary stuff. Unless of course you're a propeller-head who grew up learning how to write code instead of playing computer games and falling out of trees. But that isn…

The 2009 Buy-Side Technology Awards

This year’s awards featured 120 entries across 18 categories from 52 different technology providers. The most popular category was that of best newcomer with 13 entries, while this year’s edition featured eight new winners.

Coming in from the cold

Central clearing has dominated the agenda of credit derivatives dealers this year, even though buy-side firms are yet to gain access to such industry initiatives. But, as Joel Clark reports, this is set to change mid-way through next month if the…

TCA plugs into the front office

The rise of TCA data over the past few years has caused some head scratching among investment managers. How to incorporate this data into a broader investment process beyond a means of evaluating execution quality has proven tricky, although progress in…

Alone in the dark

For years, as dark pools proliferated in the US and now take hold in Europe, industry sources have speculated that consolidation among these venues was inevitable. The consensus was that upwards of 40 different venues operating in the US couldn’t all…

A Fine Climate

The reference data community has long been under pressure from ryegulators, but there has been a lack of sizeable fines for failure to meet data requirements. This is now changing. Tine Thoresen discovers that the market can expect to see increased…

Made to measure

Gone are the days of buy-side firms implementing broker-developed algorithmictrading tools without the ability to question their underlying assumptions. Perhaps more crucially, the ability to tailor those algorithms to more accurately reflect changing…

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…

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…

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