Feature
Gaining the Edge
Technologists are all too familiar with the mantras of the trading desk heads: "I want it faster" and "I want it better."
Paying for the Grid
If there's one word buzzing through the financial services community's datacenters these days, it's "grid." Most investment banks can't get enough of them and many already have computing and data grids numbering in the tens of thousands of nodes, while…
Corporate Actions:Engaging the Issuers
Automation
Buy-In or Sell Out?
Data Sponsors
Defending the Title
COVER STORY
Hoffman Drives TSXPress
WATERS PROFILE
Taming the lion - a panel discussion focussing on the business drivers and technology trends as firms gear up for Mifid compliance
The November deadline for complying with the European Commission's Mifid regulation is fast approaching, although you wouldn't know it gauging from the general apathy shown by UK-based buy- and sell-side organisations surrounding the directive. Not all…
The buy side's emerging beacon - the Middle East is fast becoming one of the most prominent emerging markets for the investment management industry
While Wall Street and the City compete as the world's top financial centres, the Middle East has seen massive growth in recent years, and is becoming increasingly important to the investment management industry and the technology community that supports…
Boom time for vendors and service providers
Roundtable
Plugging the infrastructure gaps
A new impartial report from JWG-IT Group, the London-based think-tank for EU-driven IT change in financial services, reveals 'widespread gaps' in current infrastructure, which financial institutions need to urgently plug in order to meet key MiFID…
New Discoveries
COMPLIANCE
Running Down Risk
COVER STORY
A Pivotal Role
OPEN PLATFORM
Brown Settles Down
WATERS Q&A
Of myths and Mifid - BST explores the myths precipitated by the European Commission’s directive
Like it or not, Mifid is coming and it is coming soon. Most people in the industry have plenty to say about the directive and no-one talks a better talk than the technology vendors touting their wares. But do not be fooled into thinking about Mifid only…