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Technology Tips for 2009

Technology is an increasingly important factor in gaining competitive advantage. As firms weigh the cost of risk management, low-latency and data storage technologies, Inside Market Data assembled a panel of data technology experts to discuss what new…

Celent: Asian Exchanges Lag on Data

Although demand for market data in Asia continues to grow, especially with increased electronification of trading in equity and index options, exchanges in the region will focus less on generating revenues from data sales in 2009 than exchanges in Europe…

Data Demand in a Downturn

With the financial markets in turmoil, 2009 brings an increased focus on data quality for better risk management and generating alpha from new asset classes, tempered by cost controls in response to the current fragile economy. This roundtable gathers a…

Come What May

Now that 2008 has been consigned to the pages of history, financial technologists confront a challenging year ahead as the markets reinvent themselves during this global slowdown. What used to be extremely difficult jobs are now nigh-impossible as IT…

Riding the Dragon in 2009

A year ago, traders and technology vendors in Asia were riding a growing wave of liquidity and technology adoption. Direct market access (DMA), alternative trading systems (ATSes) and crossing networks steadily increased throughout the region as…

Counter Party Risk - Managing Counterparty Risk

The recent market turmoil has highlighted the need for improved counterparty data management, and counterparty risk has become a new buzz word. Inside Reference Data gathers leading industry professionals to discuss the most successful strategies to…

Case study Perfect partners

Guernsey-based Corazon Capital has been through a number of organisational changes in its twelve-year history, which culminated in the implementation of a new investment management platform developed by Third Financial Software at the end of last year …

Technology spending to drop 5% during 2009

Ongoing challenges impacting financial market participants is likely to drive down technology spending at buy-side firms even though they are being spurred by regulators and investors to enhance their enterprise-wide risk management and transparency…

CEP Tries to Branch Out From Complex Roots

Complex event processing software vendors continued to win business from algorithmic trading operations that require analysis of high- frequency data streams during 2008, but also sought to make their products seem less complex to promote takeup across…

Firms Struggle to Tame Capacity, Latency

Trading firms continued to pursue ever-lower latency in 2008, but continued to face challenges from spiralling data volumes, driven by options data and the arrival of new trading venues in Europe. With no clear solutions emerging to address the dual…

Merged Thomson Reuters Breaks Cover

One of last year's big talking points-the takeover of Reuters by Thomson Corp.-came to fruition this year, creating a combined data vendor larger than rival Bloomberg and with a diverse set of products and services beyond just financial markets, such as…

Economy Weighs Heavy on Data Spend in '08

This year's troubled economic climate has forced firms to delay investments in market data in some areas, and find ways to do more with the same resources, as many firms face uncertainty following the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the…

User Deployments Center on Cost Control

Budget restraints played a major role in the decision-making process behind deployment of products and services at user firms during 2008, with many looking to vendors to provide cost-saving solutions to replace in-house systems and processes.

Fragmented Europe Provides Window for Vendors

The past year saw the launch of a slew of new products, with many designed to help user firms navigate the increasingly fragmented European trading landscape resulting from the arrival of new MiFID-inspired multilateral trading facilities.

Panel Weighs Cost vs. Capacity, Latency Issues

Trading firms are optimizing existing systems while selectively investing in new technologies to meet ongoing latency demands in the face of cost pressures resulting from the current economic climate, according to participants in a panel discussion…

Truly Going Global

Anyone trying to predict the future of exchange evolution should be familiar with the standard industry boilerplate: Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. With that said, however, it's an amazing time to watch these new global exchange…

Speed Meets Excellence

Stock exchanges have come a long way-from the marketplaces where sellers and buyers met each other to engage in trade to today's electronic platforms, where participants can trade thousands of securities on a daily basis in only a few milliseconds. To…

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