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Asset managers forced to deal with counterparty risk

Traditionally, counterparty risk was always viewed as a sell-side phenomenon, but all that changed with the demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year. Now, counterparty risk has a distinctly buy-side flavour, as Sybase's Sinan Baskan explains

Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses

As machine-readable news algorithms gain more attention, firms and vendors alike must pay close attention to monitoring technologies to avoid the dual pitfalls of automated trading-latency and message loss. By Steve Wong, vice president of marketing at…

The evolving role of the buy-side project manager

The buy side is currently facing a number of acute challenges including the need to improve the efficiency and discipline of business processes, implement technology to enhance client service, manage risk, support the introduction of new asset classes…

CSAs set for dramatic change

The demise of Lehman Brothers in September last year was a wake-up call to asset managers and other investors that the single-broker aggregator model for managing commission sharing agreements (CSAs) has its flaws. Reliance on a single equity broker to…

The Added Value of Greening IT

Farmers know if they look after their land, it will look after them. Financial technologists need to adopt a similar approach as they nurture their silicon crops. As soon as recession struck, however, too many lost interest in ‘green IT', with its…

Low-Latency Messaging 101

Designing consistently low-latency messaging isn't just about outright speed-to gain the biggest payoff, firms must also examine loss, monitoring, applications and more. By Mark Mahowald, founder and president, 29West

The party's over

One of the by-products of the ongoing global financial meltdown is the likely cessation of self-regulation for buy-side institutions.

Crunch Time for Data Management

The age-old challenge of managing market data becomes even harder in an increasingly hostile and complex environment. Ron Troy, former associate director of market data at WestLB in New York, sets out the key issues, and offers some suggestions for…

Latency Takes the Lead

There was a time when low latency was just an issue of plumbing in the dealing room or datacenter to speed up trading flows, but market fragmentation changed all that. Now it is strategic. Distance implies latency. If you use smart order routing in a…

One Platform to Rule Them All

Since the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext merged to form NYSE Euronext, the exchange operator has aimed to deploy a single global trading platform across all of its exchanges. DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi sits down with Anthony…

Interactive hedging

A low-inflation environment and an ageing population proved to be a fatal combination for pure-play bond and equity portfolios - the returns expected by corporate investors simply did not materialise. And so the days of target-based long portfolios have…

Capacity Management: Voices from the Trenches

Today's complexity and enormously competitive requirements to predict and mange scale, quality of service (QoS) and cost, demand a new tooling discipline to truly transform the way we manage capacity, and to take it to the next level. Only by engineering…

Doing more with less in 2008

Traditional investment managers are being assailed on all sides. The market volatility of the past twelve months has only served to emphasise legacy challenges, while bringing with it new obstacles to be met and overcome. With revenues squeezed, managers…

Getting Lost and Found with Enterprise Architecture

It is dramatic when IT's slipups fatally wound, but more often, it's just another tale of wasted resources and missed opportunities. How can firms avoid these miscues, do more with less, and handle wholesale change? And yes, business has its faults too…

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