Opinion
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.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: RIP, “APT”
When a real problem meets dated jargon.
Regulators Mandating Cyber-Related Technologies? Pump the Breaks
Too many accidents will lead to regulatory reform.
Max Bowie: Market Data’s a Dirty Job, But Someone’s Got to Do It
After the recent arrival of his twins, Max argues that market data execs are the nannies of the data industry.
Michael Shashoua: Stressing the Stress-Test
Banks' efforts to date when complying with BCBS 239 risk data aggregation principles have been underwhelming.
Opening Cross: Coopetition: Exposing You to a Bigger Audience, Or Just Leaving You Exposed?
Keep your friends close, and your partners closer.
Breaking the Bottleneck
Gaining insight from unstructured data is necessary to understand risks
April 2015: Feeling Lucky?
Can capital markets CISOs afford to sit on their hands as cyber attacks increase in quantity and sophistication?
Cyber's Delphic Dilemma
Reflecting on a day's immersion in security issues.
What's the Point of Stress Testing Without Granularity?
Anthony questions CCP stress-testing guidelines.
Opening Cross: Simplicity Is the Best Policy
Every business is ultimately a sausage factory of sorts, differentiated by quality and complexity.
Time for Apple Watch ... Already?
It was probably inevitable, but can fintech make it work?
Final Thoughts on FIA Boca 2015
From portfolio compression to outages to CLOBs, some emergent themes from FIA Boca.
Opening Cross: Fresh Season, Fresh Faces, Fresh Ideas
Regular readers will know that I like to (over) use metaphors to make a point, and one old chestnut I return to again and again is Formula One racing. Though most often employed by myself and others to illustrate low-latency issues, the sport—which gets…
The Sleeping Bag Solution
Innovation from the field of medicine provides lessons for financial operations
HFT's Oceanic Moment
Could the future of high speed trading be seafaring?
IRD's Editor on BCBS 239 Progress
Firms taking action, even as architects of the principles prove slow to offer guidance