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Modular Applications and Integrated Platforms—The Best of Both Worlds
Traditionally, sell-side front offices have been forced to make difficult choices between single integrated trading platforms and discrete modular applications designed to support specialist front-office functions such as trading and execution management…
Made to Measure
It is no secret that pre-developed applications offering commoditized, off-the-shelf functionality continue to dominate the capital markets technology landscape. Sinara discusses how capital markets firms often turn to tried-and-trusted industry…
Leveraging Interconnection and the Cloud for Faster, Smarter Business Decisions
How the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation and the move to cloud-based services for capital markets firms, and the extent to which such offerings will continue to find traction across the industry.
SmartStream RDU—More Pertinent Now than Ever
This whitepaper outlines the history of the Reference Data Utility (RDU), charts its development, scrutinizes its underlying technology and articulates the business benefits that users can reasonably expect on the back of subscribing to it
Data Management and Governance Take Center Stage
Data drives every business process across the buy side. The higher its quality, the more reliable, accurate and transparent the resulting downstream business processes are likely to be. That’s a simplistic characterization of what can be a highly…
Future Tech Skills Come Under the Spotlight
The financial services industry has witnessed considerable change over the past decade, which, in turn, has impacted the skills expected of its technologists. Now more than ever, they are required to understand users’ needs and the nuances of the…
The Pulse of the Industry 2021—ESG, Advanced Data Analytics and Data Scientists in the Spotlight
This webinar investigates the challenges facing market participants in sourcing, managing and integrating ESG data into investment workflows. The panellists discuss the various opportunities opened up to capital markets firms on the back of cloud-based,…
Itiviti’s Blueprint for Success—Investing in People and Products
Itiviti won the best low-latency trading network category in last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. On the back of that success, Victor Anderson speaks to Linda Middleditch, head of product strategy and engineering at Itiviti, about how the firm…
Managed Services in 2021—Poised for Lift‑Off
The outsourcing of mission-critical business processes, together with non-competitive and often labor-intensive activities, has been an important feature of the capital markets for at least the last three decades
FRTB–Taking Stock of Where We Are Today
This report distills the new approaches for calculating market risk outlined by the Basel Committee, and how regulators across Asia, Europe and the US plan to roll out FRTB in their markets. In addition, the report includes the inputs from banking…
Managing Data Assets in 2021—Building an Effective Framework for Successful Data Governance and Sharing Best Practices
This webinar explores how data analytics and artificial intelligence tools can help buy-side firms identify hidden value within their data and how buy-side firms can enhance existing business processes by improving data quality
Instinet Poised to Integrate New “Green Screen” Strategy
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments and green technology are not new phenomena across the capital markets, although they have struggled to gain widespread acceptance. But now, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, investors’ priorities…
Making remote working a success—The effect of the past seven months on the financial services industry
This webinar explores how industry professionals are optimising business technology in a remote working environment, and what new tools and apps have proven to be effective
The Pulse of the Industry
The survey reveals that capital markets firms are focused on optimizing the benefits arising from the explosion of data and new technologies that have the potential to transform businesses. Data consumption continues to evolve and increase. Market…
SmartStream Air 2 Breaks Cover… and the Rules of Data Reconciliation
This paper is based on a series of interviews that took place in Q3 2020 with two SmartStream personnel intimately involved in the development, launch and commercialization of SmartStream Air 2: Andreas Burner, chief innovation officer for blockchain and…
Time for a Post-Trade Upgrade – Automation is Critical in Reducing Trade Fails
Matt Stauffer, managing director, institutional trade processing at DTCC, explores how firms can reduce trade fails by adopting an adaptable, automatic solution that simplifies the process of analyzing and upgrading the post-trade lifecycle
Corporate Actions Processing—The Iterative Revolution Already Underway
This survey report illustrates how data quality and technology are the keys to delivering improved corporate actions accuracy and transparency, while also significantly reducing latency
Moving forward with Libor transition and Ibor reform
This report provides a guide to figuring out what is at stake with Libor and other interbank offered rates. It addresses the challenges and risks, the development of alternative data or reference rates, and begins the process of replacing Libor well…
Centralized Data Hubs—The Key to Cracking the Data Quality Conundrum
This survey report focuses on the extent to which financial services firms suffer from suboptimal data, the degree to which they acknowledge their shortcomings and the steps they have taken or are considering to remedy the situation
Supporting critical business processes during the Covid-19 pandemic—Can managed services provide the answer?
With the pandemic normalizing remote working, lifestyles are changing—and so is the digital landscape. It is now crucial for employees to access technology regardless of where they are. Moreover, many organizations are reviewing frameworks and offloading…