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American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative — Bank of America Merrill Lynch
It is becoming less acceptable for trading platforms to lack multi-asset capability. Another kind of consolidation was already on Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (BAML’s) mind in mid-2010, when it strove to provide a fully integrated client experience…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Reporting Initiative — Northern Trust
Often, the best IT implementations are paradoxically those that reduce users’ reliance on IT. When Northern Trust went looking to replace its legacy enterprise reporting system, this was exactly what the firm was trying to achieve. As Dan Houlihan, head…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Risk Analytics Initiative — LCH.Clearnet
Given risk management’s elevation in recent years to arguably the single most critical business process for buy-side and sell-side firms to monitor outside of specific alpha-seeking functions, it is hardly surprising to note the slew of risk management…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Global Deployment — ITG
Most technology implementations within financial services firms, regardless of how trivial they might appear at the outset, are not for the fainthearted—they have a knack for turning out to be far more complicated than anticipated, extending deadlines…
Empire Builder: Blackstone CTO William Murphy
Rising from an unlikely introduction to technology, Blackstone Group’s CTO Bill Murphy explains how the firm’s infrastructure, new products, and a fresh mindset are supporting its rapid diversification. By Tim Bourgaize Murray with photos by Amy Fletcher
No Small Gamble: DR and BCP Post-Sandy
Heightened awareness of catastrophe showed itself as technology providers of all ilk endured the landfall and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Tim Bourgaize Murray asks the industry for a primer in disaster recovery and business continuity, discovering a…
Credit Valuation Challenge
Following the financial crisis and the subsequent influx of new regulation into the capital markets, credit valuation adjustment has seen a significant uptick in interest among financial services firms. For large-scale banks and other entities with…
Fragmentation Down Under
Chi-X Australia’s launch in October 2011 posed the first challenge to the monopoly enjoyed by the Australian Securities Exchange since its inception in 1987. Steve Dew-Jones investigates whether the change in the trading landscape has been positive for…
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John Landry, CEO, Electra Information Systems
2013: Keep Calm and Carry On
Victor Anderson looks into his 2013 crystal ball and sees little change next year in terms of the challenging operating environment, although he does see opportunities for technology vendors and delivery models that will transpire over the next 12 months.
A Year in Profiles
Anthony takes a look back at the individuals who were profiled in the pages of Waters magazine from 2012.
The Best of the Buy Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' buy-side coverage from the past year.
The Best of the Sell Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' sell-side coverage from the past year.
2012: A Year of Opinions
Highlights from Waters' opinion pieces over the past year.
2012's Financial Crime Coups Raise Stakes, Anxiety
Global regulation was the year’s obsession, but criminal probes─from rate rigging to rogue trading; sanctions violations to insider bets─won the headlines in 2012. Not every financial crime has a ready tech fix, but with buy-side cornerstones like SAC…
Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets
The IT function, which spends somewhere between 2 and 5 percent of a company’s revenues—as much as $5 billion in some large financial services companies—still produces managerial accounting, budgeting, planning, and performance reporting on spreadsheets…
Doing More with Less
David Hagen, vice president, global trading technologies at Linedata discusses financial technology fragmentation and how companies can streamline systems to do more with less
Data Management Strategies Designed for Success
Eagle Investment Systems’ Rob Brachowski discusses the latest data management trends and tools that investment management firms are implementing as part of their data governance strategies.
Waters Announces 2012 American Financial Technology Awards Winners
Last night, Waters hosted the eighth annual American Financial Technology Awards banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Trading Technologies
Once again, winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service, Trading Technologies is going from strength to strength. Tom Haldes, head of buy-side technology at the Chicago-based vendor, talks about the…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Rimes Technologies
Rimes Technologies further cements its dominance in the data field this year with another win at the awards. Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice president of global marketing for the company, talks about what’s next for Rimes, the challenges of sourcing…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Progress Software
With Progress Apama winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Product for 2012, Waters caught up with Theo Hildyard, director and capital markets product manager at Progress Software, to talk about CEP and how it can…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2012─Markit
The recipient of this final award of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards is traditionally decided by Waters’ two editors—Victor Anderson and Anthony Malakian. The past four years set something of a precedent: The winners— Linedata Services in 2008,…