Waters/Feature
Aberdeen's Iain Plunkett: Transformation Through Technology
Aberdeen Asset Management's new group CTO/COO discusses using technology as a lever for transformation.
Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention
Regulation Automated Trading was created to protect market integrity and update the CFTC’s rules as algorithmic trading proliferates. There are many areas where there’s consensus agreement as to the benefits of this proposed regulation, but Anthony…
Adequately Agile: Capital Markets Firms Embrace Agile Methodology
While the Agile software development methodology has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really only been in the last few years that capital markets firms have started to embrace various aspects of its Manifesto.
Grappling with Vendor Risk Rules
Vendors in the financial services industry rarely make the headlines unless the news is bad. And in 2015, the news was often catastrophically bad. By Steve Marlin
Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality
Waters takes an in-depth look at advancements made in this field of artificial intelligence and where there's still room for advancement.
The Educator: Georgette Kiser, The Carlyle Group
Georgette Kiser learned early in her career the importance of understanding the people she builds solutions and platforms for.
Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution
The historic liquidity issues plaguing the fixed-income market have been recognized for some time and a number of trading platforms have been launched to facilitate trading, particularly within the secondary bond market.
Startups Accelerate: A Look at How the Innovation Space is Changing
Innovation doesn’t always come naturally to capital markets firms.
Dawn of the Wearables
As we enter the latter half of this decade, wearable devices will continue to evolve in sectors such as healthcare and wellness.
Star-Spangled Exchanges: IT Projects in 2016
As new exchanges enter the market, established bourses need to evolve in order to survive.
Fixed-Income Liquidity: An Alternative FIX
Numerous market participants have responded to the problem of shallow liquidity in fixed-income markets with the launch of new trading platforms, but without any tangible success.
Risky Alternative: Solving Enterprise Risk for Alternative Investments
As institutional investors increase their allocations to alternative investments, they’re finding that they need to improve their analytical capabilities when it comes to monitoring enterprise risk.
Toward Mobility: Building More Than a Scaled-Down Desktop Environment
The quest for connectivity between the working world and the digital experience.
Won't Back Down: SEC CIO Pamela Dyson
Dyson discusses the lessons learned after working nearly three decades in the federal government.
Loans: Scratching and Clawing to Progress
A revamped approach to the sometimes-dysfunctional sociology and technology that govern the syndicated loans and collateralized loan obligation markets is now in thrall. Learning from previous Herculean efforts, incremental steps are now realizing…
The Great Wall: Fintech in China
The Chinese market is heavily retail driven, but innovation in the peer-to peer lending sector is likely to influence the development of institutional banking and capital markets.
Data Management: Regulation, Problems and Solutions for the Buy Side
Regulators are looking for evidence of good processes and procedures around data within the firms that fall under their jurisdiction, according to panelists at RIMES Technologies’ annual Data Governance Conference. By David Dawkins
Legacy Systems: Mission Impossible or Mission Unnecessary?
How do you solve a problem like legacy technology? Capital markets firms are constantly plagued by issues arising from or associated with technology that is no longer fit for purpose, leading to security, compliance and competitive risk.
Eternally Internal: WH Trading CTO Mike Madigan
Mike Madigan has spent nearly 15 years at Chicago-based WH Trading, building the proprietary trading firm’s technology from the ground up.
Algo Testing Under the Regulatory Microscope
Mifid II will present the first regulatory framework designed specifically to regulate and monitor algorithmic trading functions within the EU.
Keeping It Agile: Aspect Capital's Barney Dalton
CTO of Aspect Capital, Barney Dalton, brought flexible control to both development and infrastructure through agile process implementation.
Market Surveillance: Rising to the Challenge
It’s clear that a culture of bad practice has deep roots in the industry, and more effort is needed to restore trust.
All Roads Lead to Rome: Navigating IFRS 9
While IFRS 9’s development started before the full grip of the financial crisis took hold in the fall of 2008, in the wake of the collapse, it became clear that banks needed to do a better job of measuring and monitoring their credit losses. This new…
Pragmatic Steps Highlight Syndicated Loans' Latest Tech Push, Part II
Learning from previous efforts, incremental steps are now realizing significant benefits for the space — which, sources on both the buy and sell side say, is just what the doctor ordered as new, less experienced investors ponder entry. Tim Bourgaize…