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Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product — AlphaSense
The job of a sell-side analyst can be broken down into two basic parts: first, gathering relevant data, and second, producing insights based on that data. The latter function is largely up to the intelligence and experience of the analyst. The first,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm — Torstone Technology
If London-based Torstone Technology were an athlete, it would fall squarely into the prodigy camp, having won an award—the best sell-side newcomer (product or category)—in last year’s inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, within a year of opening its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product — Nasdaq OMX (Smarts Broker)
It wasn’t long ago that compliance and market surveillance were sidelined divisions, generally consisting of a couple of people seen as distinctly separate, even opposed to a bank’s other employees. But given the enhanced focus on and the need to comply…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Compliance Product — Citicom
Of all regulations with which sell-side technologists must ensure compliance, capturing, storing, and retrieving voice and text data for trading staff ranks among the most onerous. Citicom Solutions, through its Assure platform, is tackling this…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side — Saxo Bank
When you think of a bank, it’s unlikely that you think of it as an outsourcer. Sure, banks use outsourced services and provide a range of technology and operational services to buy-side clients, but they don’t usually market themselves as an outsourcer…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform — SmartStream
SmartStream has a motto: Reconciliations is more than just matching. While the matching process is no doubt vital, true reconciliation requires seeing an order throughout the lifecycle of a trade through to resolution, says Tim Martin, product manager of…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Datacenter Provider to the Sell Side — Nasdaq OMX
There’s an arms race currently under way in the datacenter space that requires contenders to either build new and costly state-of-the-art facilities, or retrofit current datacenters in order to compete with other market players. Nasdaq OMX opted for the…
FBR CIO Tim Wood Cuts Costs, Tech to Grow Profits
Arlington, Va.-based investment bank FBR found itself in freefall during and after the mortgage crisis. CIO Tim Wood’s job description changed dramatically, from builder to cost-cutter. By putting his business skills to the test, he made dramatic but…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side — BT Radianz Cloud
It wasn’t more than a few years ago that cloud computing was treated with outright suspicion by the financial services industry. Now, it’s a critical and widespread component of sell-side infrastructure and system architecture. Initial concerns around…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side — Thomson Reuters
While Thomson Reuters of course acknowledges that data is an important part of its place in the industry, it doesn’t want its data reputation to make it too comfortable or allow it to slacken when it comes to developing the accompanying intelligent…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Bloomberg
Scratch just below the surface of most trading firms and you’re likely to find a Bloomberg terminal. At most tier-one or tier-two sell-side institutions, Bloomberg’s Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) network is equally…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product — GoldenSource
Waters has written it before, but it’s worth noting again: Ask a decent-sized sample of CIOs from across the financial services industry what their biggest bug bear is, and you’re likely to hear something relating to their data—be that data cleanliness,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment — Caplin Systems
Caplin Systems has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in the industry over the past few years, having been an early mover in the adoption and evolution of HTML5 and its leading-edge applications developed specifically for the capital markets. With the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) — Markit
At first blush, it might seem strange that a vendor as ubiquitous as Markit would come away with the award for best newcomer in the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards. And yet this year, the vendor has done just that with its new integrated resource…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014 Winners' Circle: Software AG
Last year, Software AG acquired the Apama complex-event processing platform from Progress Software, a move that has done nothing to diminish the platform’s excellence in this field, underscored by another win in the best CEP platform category at this…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology — Software AG (Apama)
There was a time, perhaps two years ago, when wherever you looked, complex-event processing (CEP), the technology darling of the capital markets, stared right back at you. Now, however, like so many other technologies that are part and parcel of the…
May 2014: Regulators’ Arbitrary Line in the Sand
The high-frequency trading debate is raging, thanks to Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. But Victor says the answer is not to rely on regulations to ensure fairness.
James Rundle: A Different View of Data
While regulators struggle to adapt to the volume and variety of data they receive from market participants, James examines other ways of looking at systemic risk issues.
Anthony Malakian: Can 10,000 Needles Rouse a Bear Economy?
Thanks to a new three-tiered economic plan and relative stability at the top of the Japanese government, there is some hope that Japan will jolt its sluggish economy—though many still have their doubts. But Anthony says that hope and stability are…
Michael Shashoua: Data Quality Beacon
The trade-off between data sourcing transparency and confidential business interests makes it difficult to pursue higher quality data through cooperative or open efforts. Michael points to an Omgeo initiative that is proving an exception to this rule,…
Max Bowie: Does HFT ‘Debate’ Detract from True Tech Innovation?
HFT has been grabbing the headlines, but, Max wonders, is it merely hijacking the limelight from companies that deserve greater recognition for new developments?
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Rubbing Shoulders with the People’s Champion
This year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 15 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, witnessed a number of new firms in the winners’ circle, the upending of one of the financial technology industry’s most celebrated names,…
Investment Banking Platforms Set to Become More Social
As regulations continue to reshape the global financial marketplace, single-dealer platforms are being forced to rethink how they operate. Influenced by ever-increasing consumer use of technology and social media, and determined to put their clients in…
European Derivatives Reporting Continues to Cause Headaches
Since February 12, parties to derivative trades in Europe have been obliged to report transactions to designated repositories. But with an unsteady launch, complaints about tough regulatory deadlines, and varying quality in the data reported, buy-side…