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2009: the year of doing more with less

For asset management firms of all shapes and sizes, fresh technology investment is unlikely this year and existing infrastructures will have to be extended to support new business opportunities. But as Joel Clark reports, doing more with less could have…

Fanning the flames

Recent short-selling restrictions introduced by the SEC have seemingly realised hedge fund managers’ worst fears: heavy-handed regulation making little distinction between legitimate and below-board investment tactics, coinciding with the most…

Analysis paralysis

A midst the volatility that has now become the norm in the financial markets, it may seem that the more information available to traders the better. But when it comes to transaction cost analysis, caution needs to be exercised - traders must assess how…

Access Denied

The financial crisis has resulted in data managers experiencing a growing number of 'last minute' and ad hoc data requests. How can reference data teams optimize data accessibility to better meet the new demands? Tine Thoresen reports

And the winners are...

After much deliberation Buy-Side Technology has announced the winners of this year’s buy-side technology awards; this year’s ceremony was held at the Lanesborough in London and featured 95 entries across 18 categories with a mix of last year’s recipients…

Curse of the Black Swan

Black swan events are few and far between, but when they do occur they are generally memorable occasions. This is precisely what happened during Black Week – from Monday 6 to Friday 11 October – as Asian investors triggered a sell-off that saw the Dow…

Blazing a trail

Since its inception, algorithmic trading has been powered by complex event processing (CEP) technology, designed to allow trading engines to make snap decisions on the basis of streaming data and market events. But although CEP is often perceived as the…

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