Trading technology
Driving strategic transformation of investment operations
Managing operations as a seamless, front-to-back process is difficult, if not impossible, when a firm has disparate platforms for each of the functions that make up the investment process—often with different technologies that do not easily interoperate.
Real-time and historical market data: Priorities, preferences and the cloud
This paper focuses on firms’ current market data priorities, the asset classes and geographies they are looking to focus on in the near future, and the benefits they expect moving their historical market data storage and consumption to the cloud
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
This paper outlines the benefits accruing to buy-side practitioners on the back of generating a single analytics view of their risk and performance metrics across funds, regions and asset classes.
In search of clean data: Firms navigate data challenges as LLM adoption flourishes
Large language models (LLMs), a form of artificial intelligence (AI) specialising in natural language processing, represent many opportunities for financial services firms to improve investment decisions and enhance risk management.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: BMO on market structure
This week, Joe Wald from BMO joins the podcast to discuss the SEC’s market structure proposals.
Post-trade processing via NYFIX matching
This case study highlights a global asset management firm's successful adoption of NYFIX Matching, a product from Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions, to address challenges in post-trade processing.
The move to T+1: This time is different
This whitepaper, created by Broadridge, outlines its NYFIX Matching solution, which offers a tailored road map, leveraging robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, ensuring a smooth transition.
Re-envisioning client life cycle management
The financial services industry faces an urgent need to modernize and future proof its systems and processes.
Banks find intriguing ‘data play’ via tokenization efforts
Tokenization is no longer just a peculiarity of the crypto world, as execs from global custodian banks discuss their firms’ tokenization and digital assets strategies.
Navigating the Adoption of Generative AI
This whitepaper, created by Xoriant, focuses on generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to transform the way financial services firms operate, make business decisions and innovate. Gen AI—models developed to generate high-quality text,…
Traders, vendors seek to modernize chronically underinvested FX tech
The average FX professional uses eight applications at any one time. But integrating the FX workflow is a daunting task.
T+1: Complacency before the storm?
This whitepaper, created by WatersTechnology in association with Gresham Technologies, outlines what the move to T+1 (next-day settlement) of broker/dealer-executed trades in the US and Canadian markets means for buy-side and sell-side firms.
Getting up to speed: Shortwave Chicago-London link clocks under 25ms
Industry benchmarking body Stac reports audit findings on the latency and throughput of Raft Technologies’ Chicago-London links.
Waters Wrap: ICE, Nasdaq and differing views about cloud
As exchanges continue to embrace cloud, the decisions they make today will have long-lasting implications.
Getting the message out about Aeron’s messaging
A year after Adaptive’s acquisition of Real Logic’s Aeron, the search for users of the open-source tech continues as Adaptive promises that UDP messaging can usurp TCP.
LSEG’s PermIDs: Converting needs into opportunity
LSEG's PermID framework was conceived as a proprietary tool to address an internal challenge around identifying objects in the firm’s information model. Once it had proved its worth, it was rolled out to the firm’s clients to significant success.
Technology trends in capital markets: Transforming the sell-side FX front office
The capital markets landscape is witnessing a technological revolution – a wave transforming the sell-side FX front office. Firms such as smartTrade Technologies are at the forefront of this transformation, leveraging technologies such as artificial…
Locking down the lifecycle: Trading Technologies turns to analytics and TCA in latest acquisition
The tech provider gains TCA, analytics, and algo optimization tools as established vendors vie to build more comprehensive platforms.
Crypto: Too important to ignore
This WatersTechnology Rapid read survey report examines the crypto finance priorities of institutional investors, how far along they are on their crypto journeys, the challenges in entering and participating in this market, and what they value most when…
Crypto: Too important to ignore
This WatersTechnology rapid read survey report examines the crypto finance priorities of institutional investors, how far along they are on their crypto journeys, the challenges in entering and participating in this market, and what they value most when…
Terminal velocity: MarketAxess bets on algo trading as electronification of fixed income gathers speed
MarketAxess hopes to bring fresh ideas from other asset classes with acquisition of multi-asset algorithm provider Pragma.
Outsourced trading sees uptick as buy side seeks more bang for its buck
Buy-side firms see outsourced trading as a way to simplify their operating model, while custodians see an opportunity to sell bundled services.
Tradeweb treads fine line as API trend brings challenges
Buy-side rates traders look to dodge platform’s interface but remain barred from cross-venue price-shopping.
MarketAxess looks to proprietary data and automation with new offerings
The fixed-income trading provider’s Adaptive Auto-X automation tool and new data offerings were a bright spot amid lackluster Q2 earnings.