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CEP Gains Ground
Attending last week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) technology management conference in midtown Manhattan, you couldn't help but notice the increased interest in complex event processing (CEP).
Let the Games Begin
This week, most North American financial technologists will descend on the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan for the annual rite of passage: the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) Technology Management Conference and…
If Not Now, When?
A little over a month ago at the DWT conference in London, a panel consisting of technologists from a number of major investment banks proclaimed the death of direct market access (DMA).
Citi Takes Bats Trading Stake
NEW YORK—Global banking giant Citi has hedged its bets again for a post-Regulation NMS U.S. market by taking a minority interest in Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered Bats Trading, which runs the Bats ECN.
Howard's End
It is obviously difficult to gauge a person's expression over the phone, but last week it seemed that eSpeed chairman, CEO and president Howard Lutnick was sporting an ear-to-ear grin as he announced the merger of electronic inter-dealer broker eSpeed…
Budgets Reach New High
Inside Reference Data Survey 2007
Reference Data Glitch Halts Euronext.Liffe
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JWG-IT TechSIG Splits Into Focus Groups
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The Changing Face of Outsourcing
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Towards the Holy Grail
EDM Platforms
Welcome Letter: A Pause to Reflect
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New York Breakfast Briefing: Stop the Pauses
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London Breakfast Briefing: The Low-Latency Risk Relay
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The Comeback King
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Open Platform: Meeting the Need for Speed
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Hidden Dragon
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BlueBay implements new bond module
BlueBay Asset Management, the London-based fixed-income credit hedge fund with approximately $11 billion under management, has implemented a recently released bond module of CMA's QuoteVision service.
For the love of grid – Joel Clark investigates the rise in popularity of computer grids supporting a variety of compute-intensive processes on the sell side and looks at how buy-side firms might benefit by deploying such technologies.
Computer grids have been around for quite some time on the sell side, allowing banks to maximise latent computing power on their networks for a range of processes. But what about the buy side; will hedge funds' and asset managers' more modest…