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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…

Is DMA on the rocks? – Stewart Eisenhart’s feature focuses on the benefits to buy-side players of accessing the markets directly, and the primary stumbling block of integrating DMA technologies with other front-office applications, currently inhibiting mo

Since direct market access (DMA) tools began gaining traction with buy-side firms, the benefits of managers taking more control over their trading operations in terms of best execution and greater efficiency have been tempered by significant challenges…

Stuff Happens

Back in my college days, I took a job as a file clerk at a global tier-one bank. Working in the bowels of an office tower in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., I noticed that on my manager's desk was a vanity bumper sticker that read: "T.W.H.I.P." I asked him what…

Staggering Into Summer

Late last week, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market experienced what my family mechanic would best describe as an "oopsie."

How Fast Is Fast Enough?

While in London last week, I found myself in conversations about execution latency almost every day. Besides smart order routing and defining best execution, it seems to be the most popular topic in the City.

You couldn't make this up

Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…

Transaction cost analysis – Joel Clark reports that currently only equities are meaningfully supported by the handful of technology vendors active in this space, although TCA support for fixed-income instruments is just around the corner.

Buy-side traders are increasingly asking their employers to make new investments in applications designed to measure transaction cost analysis (TCA). The technology has made big advances in recent years, driven by the global demand for proof of best…

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