Research and Commentary
Morningstar Shining in the East
Chicago-based investment research provider Morningstar has been on expansion drive, with the purchases of Hemscott and Tenfore in the past two years. But the vendor has also been growing its business in Asia-Pacific, most recently by upping its stake in…
SEC Takes Multi-faceted Approach on Market Reform
NEW YORK-The ardor for a wholesale regulatory restructuring in the financial industry appears to have cooled, focusing on points where there is widespread agreement throughout the financial industry that measures are necessary to restore trust among…
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Buy-side views mixed on tech budgeting for 2010
Traditional asset managers and hedge funds indicate cautiously optimistic outlooks for 2010, according to a new survey by Aite Group. But those attitudes won't necessarily translate into greater investments in technology. Even though the worst of the…
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The Netflix Challenge
Open Platform
Realising data's potential
In uncertain times, the ability to assimilate data in a meaningful way across the enterprise is a key component of effective investment management. But how can you manage and consolidate the huge volume of data that is available, and more importantly,…
Panel: Targeting Content Is Key Requirement
The ability to deliver timely information in a targeted fashion is increasingly important for data vendors as they seek to protect clients from information overload while providing the content they need for their specific trading and investment functions.
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Anna Prepares Implementation Plan
To Take on Registration Authority Role for Short Names and IGI
Identity Crisis
During the summer, the identifier debate, fueled by the financial crisis, has climbed the agenda. Implementation of the alternative instrument identifier could represent a turning point in the derivatives world. But the industry has not yet reached the…
Research management solutions: bringing the benefits of automation to the front office
It wasn't long ago that the quality and reliability of an asset manager's research was contingent to a large degree on its sell-side relationships. But the traditional buy side-sell side interaction has changed in recent years on both sides of the…
Fortune and Glory
ASIA REPORT
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InfoNgen Aims Tags at Broker Research
Web-based content aggregator InfoNgen is launching a campaign to encourage sell-side research providers to adopt its Intelligent Research Tags, developed for tagging news content with metadata about stories and the companies and subjects mentioned, to…
Finding the Trading Platform Middle Ground
Top-tier financial institutions have suffered much over the past year, but their losses may benefit smaller firms, which are well-positioned to pounce. As the transformations brought about by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) began…
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Slump After the Crisis
Asia Report
RMS Vendors Integrate FirstRain Content
Web research and search technology provider FirstRain is making its company research, competitor ecosystem analysis and management turnover reports available as an XML datafeed or embedded widgets within the platforms of research management platform…
Capital IQ Expands Key Developments Feed After SystematIQ Study
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division has increased the number of categories in its Key Developments feed of news and corporate events, and will continue to refine the tagging process used by the feed, following a study conducted by recently launched…
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