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Fixed-Income Liquidity: An Alternative FIX
Numerous market participants have responded to the problem of shallow liquidity in fixed-income markets with the launch of new trading platforms, but without any tangible success.
Anthony Malakian: Independent No More
A look at StatPro's acquisition of Investor Analytics.
Risky Alternative: Solving Enterprise Risk for Alternative Investments
As institutional investors increase their allocations to alternative investments, they’re finding that they need to improve their analytical capabilities when it comes to monitoring enterprise risk.
Dan DeFrancesco: Don’t Be Afraid of Your Own Shadow
Looking at the pros and cons of multiple in-house IT teams.
Toward Mobility: Building More Than a Scaled-Down Desktop Environment
The quest for connectivity between the working world and the digital experience.
Won't Back Down: SEC CIO Pamela Dyson
Dyson discusses the lessons learned after working nearly three decades in the federal government.
February 2016: The Market Will Decide
Victor highlights the key criteria startups must meet in order to gain a foothold in the capital markets.
The Waters Weekly Wrap: January 25-29
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 2: Blockchain, StatPro-Investor Analytics Merger
Dan and Anthony chat about the DTCC's white paper on blockchain and a big merger on the buy side.
The Waters Weekly Wrap: January 18-22
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 1: Bloomberg Terminals, Work Force Issues
Dan and Anthony discuss their recent opinion pieces in their inaugural podcast.
The Waters Weekly Wrap: January 11-15
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
Loans: Scratching and Clawing to Progress
A revamped approach to the sometimes-dysfunctional sociology and technology that govern the syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligation markets is now in thrall. Learning from previous Herculean efforts, incremental steps are now realizing…
WebRTC: A Comet That Will Kill Off Trading Turret Dinosaurs
The potential benefits of a WebRTC foundation include up to a 50 percent cost reduction when compared to average trading turret hardware expenses, according to Greg Kenepp.
The AFTAs 2015 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York. Here are this year's winners with write-ups about why they won.
Making a Connection
Hosted middleware solutions can help financial firms to be nimble in addressing changing market conditions, but connecting with the right technology partner is the real key to success. Sponsored analysis: Bloomberg
The Great Wall: Fintech in China
The Chinese market is heavily retail driven, but innovation in the peer-to peer lending sector is likely to influence the development of institutional banking and capital markets.
Data Management: Regulation, Problems and Solutions for the Buy Side
Regulators are looking for evidence of good processes and procedures around data within the firms that fall under their jurisdiction, according to panelists at RIMES Technologies’ annual Data Governance Conference. By David Dawkins
Legacy Systems: Mission Impossible or Mission Unnecessary?
How do you solve a problem like legacy technology? Capital markets firms are constantly plagued by issues arising from or associated with technology that is no longer fit for purpose, leading to security, compliance and competitive risk.
January 2016: Creeping Along the Continuum
While it's impossible to know what the future might hold, it's almost guaranteed that upstarts will look to upend incumbents in 2016.
AFTAs 2015: Best Compliance Initiative—State Street Global Exchange
GX Compliance platform boasts a flexible rules engine, combined with data and resolution-management tools to provide a fully auditable control process.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Buy Side—John Marcante, Vanguard
Marcante has spent over two decades at Vanguard, serving in various roles.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Oliver Bussmann, UBS
Bussmann has nearly 15,000 followers on Twitter and has fully embraced social media.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Team—Morgan Stanley
The Fusion Center enables a deeper level of monitoring across the bank’s entire enterprise by leveraging new technologies and tools to correlate data in innovative ways.