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Darkness Rising: Can Dark Pools Cure What Ails Credit Trading?
There is widespread agreement that buy-side firms need to trade with each other to boost dwindling credit market liquidity, and at least 15 platforms are preparing to make it happen. In part one of this two-part feature, Kris Devasabai looks at the…
Real-Time Risk: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Real-time risk management can be a vital tool to HFT environments, but it can be a superfluous luxury to many other market participants.
Fixed Income Attribution May Be Messy, But Apply It to Alternatives, Presenters Tell TSAM
Congress delegates discussed ways to fix, expand attribution processes.
Nevirs Trades BlackRock for Franklin Templeton
Data vet has also served at Interactive Data, Thomson Financial and Moody's over a 24-year career in market data.
No Risk Management Without Technology, Says Blackrock’s Fishwick
Technologies that underpin investment risk management are fundamental says Blackrock co-chief risk officer.
BlackRock Ups Counterparty Due Diligence with Thomson Reuters Org ID
Buy-side giant complements existing process with outsourced service.
Japan Unconvinced of Big Data’s Potential
Firms still waiting for 'eureka' moment on Big Data's value in capital markets.
Notebook: Some More Industry Feedback on Fixed-Income ETFs
Industry experts give their thoughts on the fixed-income ETF space.
Fixed-Income ETFs: Pricing, Tech Evolve in This Rapidly Growing Space
The fixed-income ETF market is not yet 15 years old, but since 2007 the space has grown exponentially as institutional investors have taken notice of these increasingly liquid products. Anthony Malakian explores the reasons behind the interest in fixed…
Old Bonds, New Pillars
Where to go for analytics-based intelligence is changing with needs.
Competing on Tech Keys BNP Paribas Sec Services' Growth, Says CEO
Acquisitions, analytics demand significant investment
Rebuffing HFT, Nine Buy Sides to Launch Luminex Dark Pool
Fidelity will have the largest ownership stake in Luminex Trading & Analytics
Goldman-Led Consortium Unveils Symphony Communication Services
In what's seen as an effort to compete with the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Markit, Goldman Sachs and 13 other industry partners have invested in a new company called Symphony Communication Services Holdings, after it acquired Perzo Inc.,…
Top Banks, Hedge Funds Buy Perzo Messaging Platform for $66M
A consortium of 14 major financial firms has acquired Palo Alto, Calif.-based messaging platform provider Perzo and renamed it Symphony with a $66 million investment to provide an open-source, secure and compliant messaging platform for financial…
BlackRock's Aladdin: More Powerful Than Politics?
Bold, hyperbolic statements about technology are commonplace in 2014, whether reveling in its potential or damning its influence. Tim examines one such argument that takes the latter bent, relating to BlackRock's massive Aladdin platform.
Front-Office Influence Wanes in Modern Buy-Side Firms
A hard-and-fast rule in buy-side firms used to be that the trader’s word was God, at least for middle- and back-office teams who often had to scramble to implement their requests at short notice. Given the increased focus on cost savings and efficiency,…
Extending 'Continuum of Innovation', BlackRock and Tradeweb Ally on Electronic Rates Trading
A recently announced and newly-integrated electronic trading solution will fuse Tradeweb's marketplace with Aladdin for order management, pricing, and execution of interest rate products and derivatives, serving only to deepen one the industry's longest…
Collateral Transformation, Agency Execution to Reinforce Swap Dealers' 'Stickiness'
As the buy side ramps up simulation of electronic swaps execution ahead of next year, panelists say old questions remain about what sell-side services will gain steam, and which are technologically feasible at all.
Collateral Transformation, Agency Execution to Reinforce Swap Dealers' 'Stickiness'
As the buy side ramps up simulation of electronic swaps execution ahead of next year, panelists say old questions remain about what sell-side services will gain steam, and which are technologically feasible at all.
Moving Parts and Closing Gaps
Corporate actions professionals are looking at how to automate more complex pieces of processing these events, Michael Shashoua reports. Messaging standards and complex instructions and choices are key factors
IRD's Editor on ISO 20022 and LEI Developments
Support for the ISO 20022 messaging standard could be wavering in the industry. In contrast, a maneuver by the US Office of Financial Research could improve the LEI's prospects
ISO 20022 Likely Stalled For Years More, Say Corporate Actions Execs
Efforts to phase out the use of the older ISO 15022 standard for corporate actions messaging on a worldwide basis are still failing to gain traction in the industry, executives from BlackRock and Barclays Capital said in a recent webcast