Editors letter
Take the Blue Pill, Neo
New technology offers incredible advances for financial markets, with caveats.
Opening Cross: Market Data’s Facebook Status Would Be ‘It’s Complicated…’
As data becomes more sophisticated, data management becomes more complicated.
The Cost-Benefit of Luminex
The end of HFT as we know it?
West Ham's Shirt Will Never be the Same Again
SNB's CHF decision claims a few scalps.
Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
In 2015, Hanging with the Big Boys
A flurry of implementations suggest an active year
All Change
2015 is likely to be marked by foundational shifts.
Opening Cross: Will 2015 Be a Happy New Year?
As predictable as the inevitable wave of unwanted Christmas gift returns, the New Year has brought a wave of new fees and policies from marketplaces, including a new minimum fee from Nasdaq for exchanges, ATS and broker-run trading platforms that use non…
January 2015: The End of Our World as We Know It
For a variety of reasons, including the 2008 global financial crisis, Victor believes the capital markets universe is shrinking.
Minding Your IPOs
So as to avoid unwanted Qs later on ...
Welcome to 2015
Although some of us were back in on Friday, most people will be having their first full day of work today.
Clearing the Holiday Outbox
Esma has kept up a furious pace over the past week.
Stable Platforms
Waters USA coverage leads the week on Sell-Side Technology.
Opening Cross: Rudy the High-Speed Trader
Max presents a festive Christmas column for your entertainment
Cyber Monday for Financial Markets
Vendors go on a shopping spree.
Big Deals and Rouble Rousing
It's that time of year.
Opening Cross: Location, Location, Consolidation and Diversification
Today’s data industry certainly isn’t that of 25 years ago, or even a dozen years ago when I started writing about it. A key difference is the change in pace of modern markets, shifting to low-latency trading where location—i.e. proximity of trading…
Value in the Data
Quantum technology and broker profiles lead this week's coverage.
An Extra Helping of Volatility?
Revisiting the curious case of October 15th.
Agility the Key for Market Survival
ETAS coverage and emerging exchanges lead this week's Sell-Side Technology round-up.
Opening Cross: Putting the ‘Custom’ in ‘Customer’
Talk to a market data manager at any firm, and chances are they view vendors and exchanges as money-grubbing monsters that exist purely to squeeze revenues from their hapless clients with little thought to customer service or satisfaction.
Scrumptious Takeaways From the BST Awards
Wrapping up a great affair in Mayfair.
December 2014: How Soft Are You?
While having good technology is a start, Victor says soft skills are necessary to win clients and gain an advantage over rivals.
Opening Cross: In Search of Data’s ‘Perfect Harmony’
Against the often-discordant melody of the financial markets, it’s good to know that there’s always a harmony playing in the background to support that melody, hold everything together, and ensure we’re all singing from the same songbook, rather than…