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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…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions
With all the fuss and attention that software receives, when it comes to fulfilling basic trading needs, people often overlook the humble telephone. No office can operate without one, and the specialized needs of a trading floor make it an essential…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Caplin Systems
Of all the categories of this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, the award for the best implementation takes more stock of a vendor’s ability to deliver on its promise than any other.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ IPC
Trading networks are an emergent, but fierce, area of competition in capital markets technology. From concentrated webs within co-located data centers through to global, continent-spanning interconnections that link participants across the buy and sell…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit EDM
That Markit EDM ─ previously known as Cadis before Markit acquired the London-based data management technology provider in June last year — extended its focus from its buy-side stronghold to the sell side, is hardly surprising. That extension of its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream
Moves away from discrete, siloed systems toward fully integrated single platforms, particularly across the back office, are at the forefront of sell-side institutions’ minds these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Sell Side ─ OneMarketData
The concept of big data is an unusual phenomenon that has, since the global financial crisis of 2008, garnered attention from both buy-side and sell-side firms as they grapple with increased data volumes, the variety of sources and formats of that data,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side ─ BT Group
At their core, cloud environments come down to three things: scale, connectivity and security. BT has all three areas covered in spades with its BT Radianz Cloud, winner of the best cloud provider to the sell side category in this year’s Sell-Side…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side ─ IBM
If any computing company can offer end-to-end infrastructure solutions, it’s IBM. It’s reliable, it’s massive, and it’s got quite a few software engineers under its roof. The company has seen a shift among the sell side from home-grown grid software to…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Web-based Development Environment ─ smartTrade
Given the decline of Adobe Flash as the modus operandi for dynamic web development, with even the parent company abandoning the platform, all attention seems to be turning to HTML5 these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) ─ Torstone Technology
In many respects, the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards mirrored the Buy-Side Technology Awards, launched back in 2007, not only because of their similar methodologies and many of the categories on offer, but also in terms of certain categories’…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product ─ Numerix
Since the financial crisis, counterparty risk has earned its place as arguably the most important exposure to manage accurately on an ongoing basis. The fallout from the crisis has meant a greater focus on counterparty risk, either because of new…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product ─ LCH.Clearnet
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the ability to monitor and manage margin requirements has become paramount for sell-side firms—after all, none would want to make similar headlines to those made by Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Provider of the Year ─ SunGard
The award for the best overall sell-side technology provider for 2013, the most prestigious of the categories comprising this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, and the second of two awards announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in…