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AFTAs 2014: Best Analytics Initiative—Fannie Mae
The term “analytics” has gotten sexy in recent years. It’s even being used in TV commercials to sell mainstream products. In the capital markets, if you aren’t talking analytics then you are likely lost in the woods.
AFTAs 2014: Best Risk Management Initiative—Janus Capital
Most of the projects and initiatives that won American Financial Technology Awards fall into one of three categories: data management, analytics enhancements, and risk management.
60 Seconds with Linedata's Dave Hagen
Dave Hagen is vice President of global trading technologies at Linedata.
AFTAs 2014: Best Data Management Initiative—MSD Capital
Traders want access to an ever-growing array of information. Risk managers are looking at a sea of datasets in order to protect their firms. Regulators are seeking an unprecedented number of metrics from asset managers, post-2008. Most firms have major…
AFTAs 2014: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Northern Trust
One of the more interesting trends to develop over the last few years is the financial services industry’s willingness to use cloud-based solutions to drive down costs while improving efficiencies. The next stage of that evolution has been the…
AFTAs 2014: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—IEX Group
It took a Michael Lewis book to turn IEX from a largely unheard-of dark pool provider into a household name with a reputation for fighting for transparency and fairness in the capital markets. But it wasn’t because of the Flash Boys book that IEX took…
AFTAs 2014: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Tim Wood, FBR & Co.
When FBR & Co. hired Tim Wood in 2006 as its CIO, it was flush with cash and the IT budget was healthy. Then the mortgage crisis hit, and the Arlington, Va.-based firm shrank its staff by 68 percent between 2008 and 2012. IT budgets were slashed, but the…
AFTAs 2014: Best Compliance Initiative—BNY Mellon
Regulatory compliance has never been more important, with new mandates being passed on a seemingly weekly basis. As transparency becomes an increasingly important battle cry amongst regulators, firms need to stay on top of new requirements coming down…
AFTAs 2014: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Pershing
Offering mobility to customers is no longer a differentiator but a necessity for financial services firms, as the concept of working from any location has become commonplace.
AFTAs 2014: Best Technology Executive, Buy Side—Bill Murphy, Blackstone
An award isn’t the most important thing in life; timing is. What happens when you combine the two? Ask Blackstone: Before CTO Bill Murphy’s arrival on the scene in 2011, Stephen Schwartzman’s veritable alternatives house never took home an American…
AFTAs 2014: Best IT Integration Initiative—Blackstone
Making two into one is probably a technology team’s most frequent—though often most complicated—task from year to year, and therefore the best IT integration award is not only one of the judges’ most important categories, but also one of the toughest to…
Max Bowie: Location, Location, Diversification—Which Is More Important in 2015?
As the focus on ultra-low latency becomes the domain of only the most competitive firms, breadth of capabilities is becoming more important. Max outlines some areas in which data providers are diversifying their breadth, and how they can achieve this.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: Prudent Pensions, Push-Out Pushback, and a Devastating Dismissal
Let’s agree: It’s a tad annoying when an appellate judge—or Congress—upends a years-long effort to push reform. As December wound down, luckily enough, we got two such instances! Tim ponders the technology effects for 2015 and beyond, but first reflects…
Michael Shashoua: What to Expect When Managing Data in 2015
Executives considering the year ahead predict incremental changes, even as they would prefer more ambitious efforts. Michael considers how the industry may take enough small steps to advance on mining data for greater insights.
Gliding Down: Pensions Seek to Match Tech to LDI Strategies
After fits and starts, defined-benefit corporate pension plans on both sides of the Atlantic are now in steady pursuit of liability-driven investment strategies that more closely align future responsibilities and current assets. This has had a meaningful…
James Rundle: The Tragic Romance of BGC and GFI
The ongoing tussle between BGC and GFI over the latter’s future has provided constant twists and turns. But James questions whether GFI was ever going BGC’s way, or if it was always on the road to Chicago.
AFTAs 2014: Mission Accomplished
Launched a decade ago, the American Financial Technology Awards were, for their first seven editions, dominated by the sell side. But as we have come to expect in recent times, the buy side was well represented in 2014, with Janus Capital, MSD Capital,…
Fintech Takes the UK by Storm
A quiet current of growth in financial technology has built into a storm over the past few years, driven in large part by a start-up culture that seeks to both disrupt and complement the efforts of traditional vendors and investment banks. London has…
January 2015: The End of Our World as We Know It
For a variety of reasons, including the 2008 global financial crisis, Victor believes the capital markets universe is shrinking.
FIX-ing Liquidity in Fixed Income
Project Neptune aims to help firms access liquidity in fixed income.
Top Stories of 2014: Best of the Sell Side
Exchange developments and cybersecurity take the lead for the year's sell-side coverage.
2014: A Year in Profiles
12 months, 12 C-level execs profiled in the pages of Waters
Top Stories of 2014: IBOR Takes Hold on the Buy Side
From case studies to special reports, a look at IBOR in 2014
Top Stories of 2014: The Buy Side Beefs Up
Variety and volatility framed this year's tech developments