Best execution
Bandwidth's silver bullet
The expectations of regulators and investors of best execution are forcing broker/dealers on both sides of the Atlantic to evaluate their connectivity and supporting infrastructure. John Panzica argues that ethernet technology has the potential to…
Reports Predict Costly Volume Rises
Market data volumes could increase by 900 percent over the next five years, largely driven by Reg NMS and the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, with spend on data technology set to rise to $2.4 billion by 2009, according to…
Adding Up the Value-Add
Roundtable
The Race to Lay the Golden Copy Egg
By building a golden source security master, firms can realize cost savings through reductions in data management issues fuelled by improved data quality, say BusinessEdge Solutions' Rachel Haines and Jignesh Prajapati. Here, they outline the best…
R&R 2.0: Summer Getaways
COVER STORY
NASDAQ Leads the Way
WATERS RANKINGS 2007 WINNER'S CIRCLE
MiFID High Tide
REGULATION
NASDAQ Leads the Way
WATERS RANKINGS 2007 WINNER'S CIRCLE
NASDAQ Leads the Way
WATERS RANKINGS 2007 WINNER'S CIRCLE
Corporate firefighters – Joel Clark looks at enterprise data management initiatives on the buy side and concludes that firms’ approaches to managing data is more reactive than proactive due to spiralling costs and debilitating time frames.
As buy-side firms trade increasingly complex instruments and new regulations demand stronger evidence of best execution, it seems a natural time to streamline the processes governing the management of data across the organisation. But as Joel Clark…
Hammer Time – Joel Clark plots the rise in popularity of internet-based auction platforms for the securities lending industry and explains the transparency and competition benefits offered by such systems.
Securities lending represents a growing part of the over-the-counter market, allowing investors to make short-term loans of their securities to generate revenues from their portfolios. Automation is a strong trend in the market, with several technology…
Brokers under pressure to provide more multi-asset tools
Demand for integrated, multi-asset trading front-ends is growing on the buy side as asset managers seek returns from an increasingly wide range of asset classes. The brokers who best address this need stand to gain a significant advantage over their…
Paying for Mifid
Call me a cynic, but is there any firm in the industry that doesn't expect to write a large check to regulators once the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) goes into effect on Nov. 1?
Beneficiary-Driven Solutions
Business transformation is akin to making a silk purse from a sow's ear— long pursued, but elusive. The trite "it is about people, not technology" masks a hard reality. To reap the potentially rich harvest envisioned by major business shifts demands a…
Paper: Industry Expects Mifid Fines
LONDON—Approximately 95 percent of surveyed firms affected by the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) expect to pay fines for non-compliance in the first quarter of 2008, according to recently published white paper.
Panel: Mifid an Opportunity, Not a Curse
LONDON—Financial firms should see the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) as a business opportunity rather than a purely regulatory obligation, say industry members who spoke last week on a panel hosted by BearingPoint and BT Global…
Waters Rankings 2007 Announced
NEW YORK—Heat, humidity and a localized blackout could not keep attendees away from the fifth annual Waters Rankings reception, hosted at Métrazur overlooking Grand Central Station’s main concourse. This year, nearly 600 readers of sibling publication…
Make Me Accountable
Chief Data Officers
The Role of the CDO
Chief Data Officers
Competition Looms
ASIA REPORT
Winners of our fifth annual Waters Rankings
WATERS RANKINGS 2007
The Heat Goes On
EDITOR'S LETTER