A-Team IQ takes a look at the new giants of liquidity, Citadel and Getco; why the often-overlooked corner of the reference data business—corporate actions—has suddenly grabbed the market’s attention; Swift and entity identification…another look at BICs; how practitioners are identifying the prime suspects of latency as a first step toward minimising it; SIX Telekurs’ David Lecompte makes the case for a renewed focus on quality and processing; PolarLake’s John Randles believes alignment with business is crucial, and more…
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A-Team IQ looks at the challenges Swift faces in breaking down the barriers to pan-European clearing and settlement; we visit Equinix’s data centre in Slough and discover the new hotbed of power and money; after more than two decades of trying, establishing an enterprise risk management system is still a challenge; how investment banks are using algo trading and DMA techniques in the commodity futures markets; the (dis)harmony of liquidity risk, and more…
A-Team IQ talks to SunGard’s Harold Finders and Yassine Brahim about the takeover of GL Trade; what the Oracle-Sun tie up means for the fintech industry; Why Brazil is becoming the offshore location of choice for the European financial sector; following Lehman’s collapse, why knowing your counterparty is essential for risk management; market data platforms for the real world; can Twitter deliver results for fintech companies, and more…
A-Team IQ meets with Niall Cameron, Markit’s man charged with replicating the company’s OTC success in equities; How the credit crunch has put new pressures on market liquidity and brought about new scrutiny; Examining Europe’s fragmented markets with clutch of new MTFs; Risk drives data innovations; Low latency in a flash; Know your exposure; Getting the measure of best execution, and more…
Get IT right for risk management; Risk analytics rise to the fore; Certification – standard bearers; IT challenges for financial institutions in 2009; Valuations at face value; Case study – HighStep seeks edge in knowledge management; Can commodities ride the credit crunch wave?; The network perspective of low latency; and FX wholesale banking automation…
One year on – has Swift’s bold restructuring plan had an impact?; With attention turning to commodities, derivatives and volatility, has Chicago’s moment arrived?; What role does technology play in making M&A activities a success?; Does the growing array of alternative trading venues offer real choice or just a big headache?; Tailoring MiFID to the commodity derivatives business; Workflow orchestration; Cloud technology; XBRL and more…
A-Team IQ talks to NYSE’s global technology head Larry Leibowitz and TransactTools CEO Sam Johnson about their vision for universal market access; Does outsourced reference data management meet the challenges of tighter cost control?; Downstream data integration; is the ‘investment roadmap’ just another set of standards doomed to failure?; Visualising what’s best for smart order routing; Regional focus on the Gulf States; Regional focus on Israel; the buy-side re-evaluates data management; hardware acceleration, and more…
