Trading Tech

Smaller IT Budgets Push Creativity

The past year has presented new and interesting technological challenges for 2010 to the listed-derivatives industry. First, trading volumes actually declined for the first time in over a decade, but message traffic continued to explode. Second, demand…

'More, Faster, Cheaper' to Dominate FX in 2010

Over the past year, the foreign exchange (FX) industry has seen the continual stretch to be the fastest price maker, the unrelenting onslaught of ticket volumes, the shifting sands of ECN rules, the rise of algorithmic execution the ever increasing ranks…

Navigating the European Markets in 2010

As 2010 sets to unwind, market participants continue to face the challenges of finding liquidity and achieving best execution in a fragmented marketplace. DWT sits down with Michael Krogmann, Executive Director, Head of Sales, Xetra Market Development…

Managing Corporate Actions Risk

Despite industry efforts to reduce financial losses typically associated with corporate actions processing, managing risk remains one of the major challenges for the corporate actions industry. On November 18, Inside Reference Data gathered leading…

Relying on Regulation

While cost cutting was an overriding theme in the data management industry in 2009, the improved economic environment now means value-adding projects to help manage risk and meet regulatory requirements are back on the agenda. Inside Reference Data…

Editor's Letter - Bigging-up the back office

From a buy-side perspective, the front office has traditionally been where all the sexy action takes place. And rightly so. It's the area of the business directly responsible for performance. Come to think of it, the front office is a bit like the engine…

Parametric selects Fidessa LatentZero's Minerva OEMS

Parametric Portfolio Associates, a Seattle-based registered investment adviser, has selected the Minerva order and execution management system (OEMS) from Fidessa LatentZero to manage $30 billion in assets across more than 16,000 separately-managed…

Speculators in the crosshairs

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is considering implementing position limits for buy-side players trading energy products, potentially restricting the number of positions traders can take on futures exchanges. Stewart Eisenhart reports

MSIM outsources to State Street

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has signed a deal with State Street Corporation that will see State Street provide MSIM with outsourced investment manager operations services for approximately $300 billion in assets. State Street will provide…

Dabbling in the dark

Dark pools started to appear as early as a decade ago in the US market, but it has only been over the course of the last two years that they have attracted sufficient liquidity – perhaps as much as 12% of US equity orders and 4% in Europe – to make them…

Spotlight on Greg Conley

No stranger to the role of chief executive, Greg Conley has taken the reins at Swiss front- and middle-office technology developer Odyssey Financial Technologies. This will be his fourth chief executive post, having previously headed-up Verio, Tanning…

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