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CEP Comes of Age (Part One): The Need for Real Time at the Heart of the Enterprise Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on May 16, 2013 to discuss the changing role and continued adoption of complex event processing (CEP) as the engine at the heart of the drive to real time across the enterprise.
Strategies and Practices to Maximize Opportunity Within the New Derivatives Market Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on May 15, 2013 to discuss the challenges of electronic trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market, including the pressure inflicted on infrastructure and the impact of associated regulations…
Waters Rankings 2013 Voting Now Open
Each year, we ask our readers at securities firms, asset managers, hedge funds, brokerages and exchanges to choose their best financial service solutions and technology providers. Voting is now open for this year's Waters Rankings.
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May 2013: Talk Can Prove Costly
Most vendors that service capital markets firms have top-notch offerings—anything less, and they wouldn't survive. So how do firms choose? Victor argues that civility can go a long way toward securing a deal.
Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly
Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage, and…
Max Bowie: A ‘Search Party’ to Find Missing Alpha in Financial Data
Although bleeding-edge technologies have focused on developing lightning-fast algorithms that cut humans out of the trading process, Max believes natural-language processing, and the often-overlooked fundamentals of search engine technologies, will play…
Michael Shashoua: Pricing’s Progress
A growing drumbeat for greater transparency and credibility in the sourcing of pricing and valuations data is stirring data professionals to improve functions serving these needs. Michael explains how the industry is calling the tune.
Mobile Strategies for Financial Services Firms Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on April 25, 2013 to discuss the operational and technology challenges facing firms in light of widespread adoption of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives.
James Rundle: The Heat of the Moment
There’s often a pressure to be seen to be nimble and adaptive to the latest technologies, whether it’s cloud, mobility, Big Data or anything else. However, according to James, as budgets get leaner, it’s important for firms to assess whether technologies…
Anthony Malakian: HFT: Enemy of the State
With high-frequency trading existing in a state of uncertainty, the FBI is looking to join the SEC in examining the role algorithmic trading plays in the capital markets. Anthony says this is a good thing.
Client Reporting: The Road to Empowerment
Quarterly investment reports have long provided the sandwich filling between investment managers and their clients. Vendors have helped to automate the process, but Steve Dew-Jones considers how technology can take this process to the next level.
Down Mexico Way: Will State-of-the-Art Tech Lure Liquidity?
Sensing an opportunity as the local economic picture continues to shine, the Mexican stock exchange last year installed a matching engine with significantly better latency and throughput. The technology is unquestionably in place, but will liquidity…
Regulation Webcast: Risk and Reward
Questions of extraterritoriality, market surveillance and the role of technology when it comes to dealing with new regulation, took precedence during a recent Waters webcast on the topic, along with elements of risk introduced by the sheer number of new…
What Lies Beneath: An Examination of Risk on the Buy Side (Part 2)
In part two of his examination of risk on the buy side, Anthony Malakian looks at how the regulatory environment is changing the way risk is managed and reported on, and delves into the buy versus build trade-off for risk-related technology.
Exchanges, Brokers Face HFT Surveillance Challenge
Although the benefits and drawbacks of high-frequency and algorithmic trading have been debated endlessly, the ability to perform competent and reliable surveillance on these operations is an area often relegated to the back rooms of conferences. James…
Navigating Regulatory Reform After The Financial Crisis Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 27, 2013 to discuss the operational and technology challenges facing firms in light of the largest regulatory overhaul in recent memory, which is radically changing the way in which global…
Metrics Man: BNY Mellon CIO Suresh Kumar
Suresh Kumar moved to the US at 24 to find a job in technology. Along the way to becoming CIO at BNY Mellon, he directed the first online brokerage, built a laudable technology stack at Pershing, and installed a software company back home in southern…
Open Platform: IP Turrets Gain Traction
Traditionally, trading turret technology has lagged behind the world of enterprise telephony. But that is beginning to change, as IP trading turrets gain acceptance thanks to a number of key drivers. By Mark Gibbons
April 2013: The Naming of Parts
Are initiatives like the investment book of record, and post-VaR risk models really new? Or, Victor asks, have the old parts simply been given new names?
James Rundle: The Third Time’s the Charm
Talk about a third iteration of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive may be slightly premature, but it’s more than background noise at the moment. Given the weight of regulatory reform under way, James asks if the industry can take more…
Anthony Malakian: More Than Just Window Dressing
Investors are asking more pointed questions of traders and portfolio managers when it comes to risk management. Anthony hopes this will help make for a safer market.
Michael Shashoua: Solving For LEI
Those with vested interests in how the legal entity identifier implementation is carried out appear to be holding their ground, complicating the path to functionality. Michael channels a growing and raging online debate.
Max Bowie: Fighting Fragmentation: The Rising Cost of Connecting the Dots
Regulator-led trading market structure changes also require regulator-mandated changes to data consolidation. But without that—or at least, universal support from participants—Max wonders whether such initiatives are doomed to being expensive headaches…