Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
The Road to Risk Reduction
The financial crisis has proved that timely access to integrated and high-quality data is essential to mitigate risk and meet regulatory requirements. To discuss ways firms can improve integrated data management strategies, Inside Reference Data gathered…
Fully Operational?
Today, firms believe they are assessing their operational and other risks based on known conditions, but that belief is misplaced, says industry expert Margarita Brose
Cost Pressures Refocus User Priorities
As trading and investment firms face growing data requirements and shrinking budgets as a result of the turbulent economic environment, market data managers are focusing on better data administration, persuading vendors and exchanges to implement cost…
The Best Practices
EDITOR'S LETTER
The Price Isn't Right
The recession has put pressure on data consumers to lower costs and operate on tight budgets, but there have been mixed responses from vendors. Tine Thoresen reports on the pricing conflict
Software-as-a-Service: Enhancing Corporate Actions Efficiencies
SaaS-based solutions can be used to automate and support key business processes, including corporate actions processing, which in many ways is highly manual and, therefore, vulnerable to errors, says Fidelity ActionsXchange's Deb Culhane
Locking Down Liquidity
On October 5, the UK's Financial Services Authority released 09/16, Strengthening Liquidity Standards Policy Statement, the final version of the UK's long-awaited liquidity risk regulation. Carla Mangado explores how this will impact the back office and…
Spotlight on Ben Jackson
With energy and commodities markets facing the prospect of more hands-on regulatory reform in the US, SunGard has merged its Kiodex and Energy businesses into a single unit, with Ben Jackson at the helm. Former chief operating officer at Kiodex, Jackson…
Managing High-Frequency Risks
While commentators eagerly debate the merits of high-frequency trading, everyone agrees that high-frequency trading, like any trading activity, requires thorough risk management.
The Risk Factors
EDITOR'S LETTER
The Fog of Risk
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
The Laws of Finance
Asia Report
A Clear View of Risk
Cover Story
Markit and DTCC unveil MarkitSERV
Markit and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have launched MarkitSERV, a new company that combines the two organisations' electronic trade-confirmation and workflow platforms to provide a single gateway for over-the-counter (OTC)…
Connect to control
When AQR Capital Management, the $20 billion quantitative hedge fund and investment manager based in Greenwich, Connecticut, decided to upgrade its trade-matching processes, it had no other vendor than Omgeo in mind; and with Omgeo having developed a…
European Trading Firms Go Loco for Co-lo
Co-location facilities remain in demand, not only as firms seek to reduce the latency of data delivery by locating their trading engines in the same physical premises as exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, but also as a means to cut back on…
Made to measure
Gone are the days of buy-side firms implementing broker-developed algorithmictrading tools without the ability to question their underlying assumptions. Perhaps more crucially, the ability to tailor those algorithms to more accurately reflect changing…
Automation New
Asia Report
Managing the Hedging Risk
Open Platform