Inside Market Data/Feature
Best Market Data Newcomer (Product): Advantage Data
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Mobile Initiative: Thomson Reuters
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Corporate Actions Data Provider: SIX Financial Information
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Enterprise Data Management Initiative (Vendor): Eagle Investment Systems
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Reference Data Initiative (Vendor): The SmartStream RDU
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Corporate Actions Initiative (Vendor): DTCC
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Reference Data Newcomer (Product): AIM Software
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Acquisition of the Year: CBOE
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Managed Service for Reference Data: Broadridge
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
Best Overall Data/Service Provider: SIX Financial Information
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
The State of Play in M&A
Kirsten Hyde looks at what's hot and what's not in the world of private equity investment and M&A activity.
Alternative Data’s Hard Labor
Faye Kilburn investigates quantitative funds' attempts to sift gold from the torrent of alternative datasets.
Slowdown Showdown: Exchanges Eye 'Flash Boys' Speed Bumps
Exchanges that objected to IEX becoming an exchange are now planning to introduce their own IEX-style "speed bumps."
Scrambled ESGs: Growth Prompts Calls for ESG Standards
Joanne Faulkner investigates changing attitudes towards ESG investments, and the resulting growth in demand for ESG data.
From the Ground Up: Infrastructure Investment Faces Data Challenges
With calls for massive investment in infrastructure ringing across North America and Europe, private investment in these projects should be flourishing. Yet, many institutional investors still view these opportunities with a balance of interest and…
Wind of Change Disperses Cloud Data Doubts
Banks are warming to the benefits of cloud computing for market and enterprise data storage and resource-intensive calculation and testing requirements. But, as Joanne Faulkner discovers, there are still challenges that must be overcome before cloud can…
Commodity Firms Tighten Up on Spoofing
With increased high-frequency trading in commodities markets likely to increase instances of “spoofing,” the CFTC has said it will be monitoring markets more avidly for instances of spoofing and other forms of market manipulation. Selwyn Parker reports…
An Engineer of Change: State Street CDO James Hardy
Transforming a firm’s data management and governance is a lengthy process that requires patience, resilience and passion. State Street chief data officer James Hardy has found an engineer’s approach to problem solving and a consultant’s interpersonal…
Bracing for a RegTech Boom
With an unenviable raft of new regulation imminently coming into force, market participants anticipate a flurry of adoption of compliance-related technology, which is expected to prove lucrative for RegTech providers. Joanna Wright and Max Bowie talk to…
Not Your Granddad’s Surveillance
For years, sophisticated data monitoring and analytics have been a key component of developing trading strategies. Now, as Joanne Faulkner discovers, firms are taking approaches first developed for use by traders and turning the tables, and are using…
A Culture of Trust: DTCC's Ron Jordan
In 2010, Ron Jordan left NYSE, swapping market data for reference data and the opportunity to build a proprietary data business at clearing and settlement utility the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., where Max Bowie caught up with him. Photos by Amy…
Brexit Undermines MiFID Data Foundations
Even after Britain leaves the European Union, financial firms wanting to do business within the EU will need to comply with MIFID II. But removing the UK from EU markets could still derail new European trading and transparency rules. Samuel Wilkes…
Buy Side Struggles to Integrate Analytics
Linking performance attribution and risk has clear benefits, but fragmented approaches are making it hard for firms to unify processes and underlying data. Clive Davidson outlines the key challenges, and how firms are addressing them.
The Rise of #AltData
Max Bowie explores the opportunities arising from new, alternative datasets, and the challenges of managing them.