Feature
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…
Dark diligence
“Who do you trust?” As that question gains pertinence among buy-side managers, aspects of their relationships with broker-dealers have come under scrutiny. In the midst of sell-side upheavals and ongoing volatility, buy-side traders might presume to find…
Going wholly hosted
MFC Global Investment Management, the investment management arm of Canadian financial services firm Manulife Financial Corporation, recently faced a challenge familiar to many buy-side managers with global infrastructures: moving operations scattered…
Drastic Cutbacks
COVER STORY
On the NYSE Amex Options Floor
Exchanges
The Costs of Change
Since the UK's Financial Services Authority recently published a consultation paper on liquidity risk, the topic has appeared on the agenda at industry events. But market participants are concerned about tight deadlines and costly implementations. Carla…