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Inventing the New Thing Is the New Thing
Innovation is like vacation—people spend more time talking about the amazing places they’re going than they spend actually getting there. There isn’t a company worth its salt where innovation is not part of its agenda, although its application varies…
Waters Rankings 2013 ─ All the Winners
At a cocktail reception held at rooftop event space 230 Fifth, this year's Waters Rankings winners were announced.
Risk Management: Time to Get Real
It wasn’t long ago that it was acceptable for capital markets firms to manage their risk on an overnight basis, computing their various measures through lengthy batch processes while the markets slept. But that all changed with the 2008 credit crisis as…
Chief Data Officer: A Role Under Construction
Over the past few years, the capital markets have witnessed the promotion of data executives to the role of chief data officer (CDO), elevating data issues to the C-level. Marina Daras looks at how CDOs are making their way to the top of primarily sell…
Complex-Event Processing special report
July 2013 - sponsored by: Apama
Real-Time Risk Management webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 26, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are looking to aggregate their risk exposure on a real-time basis and the challenges they face.
James Rundle: Dark Alleys
The topic of cyber warfare and security is often associated with other industries, but more than ever, it’s becoming applicable to the wholesale capital markets. James says that protections and discussions are no longer optional—they’re essential.
Anthony Malakian: Has Wall Street Learned Its Lesson?
Three years ago this month, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law. Anthony says that while much has improved, there’s still a system in place that rewards greed.
Michael Shashoua: Game of Global Communication
Risk is a growing concern for corporate actions, but will that be enough to push through improved messaging standards? Michael thinks this should translate into a consensus for action.
Max Bowie: Will Ratings Rethink Restore Credit Confidence?
Rightly or wrongly, credit rating agencies are often blamed for the financial crisis. But with new stricter rules for rating agencies now in force, Max says why not rethink the entire issue of regulating ratings, and give them the same status as any…
The Nuclear Option: Eaton Vance's John Shea
John Shea sits down with Jake Thomases to discuss his interesting pre-Wall Street career and Eaton Vance's IT.
Dodd–Frank Turns Three—What's Next?
July marks the three-year anniversary of the Dodd–Frank Act being signed into law. Anthony Malakian takes a look back at the IT challenges faced, and previews what’s still ahead.
July 2013: The Tail Wagging the Dog
While trialing new technology, Victor is reminded of the importance of getting input from end-users.
60 Seconds with Emilio Mercado of Simplified Financial Information
Emilio Mercado, CEO, Simplified Financial Information
Poles Apart? Tech Push Boosts Poland's Prominence
Capital markets in Central Europe—and especially Poland—have made steady gains after being unlocked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, with new technology helping to both catalyze reform and create jobs. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports from Warsaw on the…
Deploying Professional-Grade Mobile Technology Across the Enterprise - webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 19, 2013 to discuss the strategies leading and the challenges facing the financial markets of tablet and mobile device implementation across the enterprise.
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
SEFs at the Starting Gate, Technologists Prep for Challenges
On May 16 this year, US regulators finalized long-awaited rules that govern various aspects of how swap execution facilities will operate. Several years after the draft rules were first announced, attention now turns to the technology challenges…
Lessons from the Hash Crash
Over the past few months, a series of glitches similar to the one that caused the Hash Crash has made it clear that the financial markets are at the mercy of high-frequency trading machines. Some of these systems feed mostly on social media content,…
CEP comes of age (Part Two): The need for real time in Risk Management Webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 13, 2013, the final in a series of two, 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…
Regulation special report
June 2013 - sponsored by: Linedata, SIX Financial Information
SST Awards 2013: A Leap of Faith
The inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, will be remembered for many things, not least because those in attendance were introduced to an American icon in the form of ex-Major…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ SunGard
Given recent events across the financial services industry, few aspects of trading infrastructure and process are of a higher profile than market surveillance. Firms face devastating consequences from failing to properly monitor their employees’ trading…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Numerix
As with the Buy-Side Technology Awards, all category-winning products were considered for this award, the penultimate category of the Sell-Side Technology Awards and one of only two announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in Times…