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Open Platform: Cloud Is the New Normal
The rise in popularity of the cloud—especially across the buy side where asset managers are looking to do more with less, while simultaneously shrinking their technology spending—has been nothing short of astronomic. A recent TowerGroup forecast predicts…
Open Platform: Shining a Light onto ‘Dark’ Markets with Market-Derived Fixed Income Data
While market forces and regulation have led to transparency and high availability of market data for many asset classes, many aspects of the over-the-counter fixed income markets remain opaque, with market data either unreliable or incomplete. To…
Open Platform: How Data Can Open Doors to New Business Models for Exchanges
As competition for their traditional home turf heats up, exchanges must leverage their position as central liquidity venues to become conduits to market data and execution beyond their domestic markets—or risk someone else doing it, says Chris Pickles,…
Open Platform: The Real Cost of In-House Analytics
In the current economic environment, when it comes to analytics, the buy-versus-build debate should be a no-brainer, says Martin Stevens, director of professional services and support at UK-based pricing software vendor Kalahari.
Open Platform: Low-Latency Drive Leads to New Data Challenges for CEP
For firms seeking to perform data management and aggregation to create custom consolidated feeds and the high-performance analytics required to generate alpha in a challenging economy, CEP and high-performance tick databases offer a compelling…
Business Continuity in the Cloud
The cloud offers enhanced IT service availability and flexibility, but customers need to understand their responsibilities in order to achieve this. By Mike Small
The Case for Automation
IT teams are faced with supporting systems that facilitate high-speed trading where huge amounts of money hang in the balance. Overlooking even the smallest hiccup can bring the whole infrastructure to its knees. How can these increasingly complex…
Cloud Computing's Critical Mass
Cloud computing is having a profound impact on society. Although relatively slow to adopt this technology—mainly due to security fears—more investment management firms are turning to the cloud to achieve scale, cut costs and improve client communication…
Open Platform: Social Media as Market Data
Capital markets have much to gain from incorporating social media data into investment strategies, but must apply the same critical sourcing criteria as they would to other forms of market data, says Seth McGuire, director of asset management and…
Open Platform: Data Driving Cloud Adoption
As rising data volumes, exchange mergers, new asset classes and regulatory moves result in greater capacity needs, firms are seeking alternative connectivity options that will reduce costs, industry-wide—and cloud technologies are poised to take…
Following the Sun: Trading in the Age of Free Capital Flows
In an age of free capital flows, the day never ends for the financial markets. For this reason, it is imperative for asset managers to be able to follow the sun, and they must embrace a vigorous global regulatory environment and not be constrained by its…
Real-Time Risk Management Now
The calls for real-time risk management are growing louder and more frequent. Its proponents point to recent advances in hardware, analytics and data management that make real-time risk management no longer a pipe dream but a genuine prospect. However,…
