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Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 33: IEX's Ronan Ryan
Dan gets an update on IEX’s status from president Ronan Ryan.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 32: Seed CX CEO Edward Woodford, State of SEFs
Dan talks with Edward Woodford, CEO of Seed CX, the latest SEF fully registered by the CFTC.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 31: HFT Debates, RBC’s Head of Tech and Ops, PTFs
Dan and Anthony talk HFT and about their August features.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 30: Northern Trust's Vijay Luthra Talks Disrupting Data Centers
Dan chats with Vijay Luthra, global head of infrastructure engineering and operations at Northern Trust, about leveraging emerging technologies in data centers.
Rise of the Semi-Transparent (Nontransparent?) Active ETF
Eaton Vance is the first to launch an exchange-traded managed fund, with Precidian (and others) looking to release similar offerings.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Moody's Analytics
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Glenn Carvajal and Doug Dwyer about Moody's Analytics win in the Best Credit Risk Solution Provider category.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: Equinix
Dan DeFrancesco chats with John Knuff about Equinix being named the Best Datacenter Provider at this year's Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: SS&C Advent
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Katherine Pearce about SS&C Advent being named as the Best Accounting System Provider at this year's Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Castle Integration
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Vinod Paul about ECI's win the in Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider category.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: IPC Systems
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Rajan Singh about IPC's Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider win.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Software Group
Dan DeFrancesco chats with James Griffin about his firm's two wins at this year's Waters Rankings
Dawn of the PTF: An Inside Look at Canada's Attempt to Revive the Mutual Fund Market
Invesco Canada, TMX Group and potentially even Fundserv are building products that blend ETFs and active mutual funds.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
The UBS Neo platform was launched in 2013 and covers equities, commodities, FX and fixed income.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Agency Broker — Bloomberg Tradebook
Winning the best agency broker category in this year’s Waters Rankings makes it two in a row for Bloomberg Tradebook, and that is thanks largely to a busy year of product enhancements rolled out by the New York-based agency broker.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider — Convergex
If, as a capital markets firm, you aren’t using trading algorithms to at least some degree, there are two possibilities: Either you’re based in some backwater and you route your trades to your brokers by phone calls and faxes and they execute them on…
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: SS&C Advent — After Mergers, Moving Forward
At this year’s Waters Rankings, SS&C Advent won the award for the best accounting system provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Portfolio Management System Provider — RiskVal Financial Solutions
RVPortfolio undergoes a series of enhancements and upgrades this year
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Crossing Network Provider — TradingScreen
Tradecross is currently running in beta version and has been supported by 15 buy-side firms
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Reconciliation Management Provider — Electra Information Systems
It seems like just the other day that Electra Information Systems pulled off one of the great coups of the last decade at the Buy-Side Technology Awards by unseating SmartStream Technologies, a perennial winner over the years in this increasingly…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider — The DTCC
The DTCC wins the best sell-side clearing provider category for the third consecutive year.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: Equinix — Investment and Expansion
At this year’s Waters Rankings, Equinix was once again named as the best datacenter provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Persistence Pays Off
After last year’s Waters Rankings that saw 25 different firms in the winners’ circle, the 2016 Rankings were always likely to be somewhat less spectacular in terms of the broadness of the winners’ mix. Be that as it may, this year will be remembered by…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 29: LedgerX's Paul Chou and Zach Dexter Talk Bitfinex Hack
Dan is joined by two bitcoin specialists to discuss the latest hack suffered by the cryptocurrency.
Data Policies to ‘Trump’ Donald and Hillary
Unimpressed with US politics, Max lays out his own manifesto for data democratization—focusing on fees, smart content, latency and regulation—to make trading strategies great again.