Opinion
Max Bowie: Is Bloomberg Really to Blame?
Putting all your eggs in one basket is a high-risk strategy as Bloomberg Professional traders found out on April 17.
May 2015: Tall Poppy Syndrome is Alive and Well
Bloomberg Professional's blank day on April 17.
Anthony Malakian: Gregg Berman’s Gedankenexperiment for Market Structure
The SEC's Gregg Berman provided a thought experiment to explain how today’s market structure has evolved.
Back in the Saddle Again
Anthony looks back at the biggest stories from the previous week.
Opening Cross: In the Interest of Full Disclosure
Disclosure of market-moving information, and the industry that surrounds it, is changing rapidly.
Path To Alignment
Data infrastructure improvement requires carefully attaching meaning to data
Puts and Calls on South Beach
BST makes the trek to Miami next week.
IRD's Editor on the Hedge Funds Data Playbook
Can firms with large scope and scale emulate the more flexible nature of hedge funds in dealing with data management?
A Wrap on NATAS
Anthony looks back at this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit.
Kilburn's Corner: Omotenashi: A Postcard from Tokyo
With such an emphasis on customer service, Japan could be a perfect breeding ground for managed services.
The Buy Side Shines at NATAS
Waters' first conference of the year went swimmingly. Here's a recap.
Some Final Thoughts After the Bloomberg Outage
Also, the SST Awards and North American Trading Architecture Summit are tomorrow. More on that.
Opening Cross: Outage Outrage: In Defense of Bloomberg
Bloomberg should take the blame for its own network failure, but not for some not having alternatives in place.
Rethinking Large-Scale Data Management
Will major firms be able to take a page from hedge funds' playbook?
Zombie Hedge Funds & Tech's Dual Role
Is technology investment a good way to send an early message to investors?
IRD's Editor on Data Quality as a Driver
Looking at data quality's impact on data governance planning, data linkages and more
Contrarian Views for Startups: Come Together, Over Regs?
Anthony also discusses five random news events.
Opening Cross: Is Fee-Free Feasible?
Good management of data fees--even when waived--is a prperequisite to any talk of free data.
Letting the CAT Out of the Bag
Thomas Sporkin and Timothy Coley lay out the business and regulatory arguments in favor of implementing the Consolidated Audit Trail in the US.
Patience is a Virtu(e)
Timing seems right as HFT firm takes another stab at IPO.
Data Quality As Ideal and Driver
Raising data quality is both the purpose of data governance, linkage and discovery changes, and an incentive to improve those functions
Opening Cross: Pump Up the Volume
As a new parent, I’ve become obsessed with volume: not just trying to figure out how to dial back the volume of a screeching baby at 4am in a New York apartment with walls apparently made of nothing more substantial than empty cereal boxes, or…
IRD's Editor on Data Sourcing and Operational Risk
Concerns should translate into solutions for unstructured data
A Change in the Wind: Trading Firms More Willing to Discuss Cyber Tactics
firms are more willing to talk about cyber security to gain knowledge.