On 04 Jun 2008 in A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 4 - Q2 2008 
By Andrew Delaney, Editor, A-Team Insight Quarterly, A-Team Group
NYSE Euronext’s new Advanced Trading Solutions group is setting out to offer standardised access to markets globally, while lowering the cost to clients of the technology infrastructures required to participate in today’s increasingly fast and electronic execution venues. Andrew Delaney talks with global technology head Larry Leibowitz (pictured, right) and NYSE TransactTools CEO Sam Johnson about their vision for universal market access.
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On 04 Jun 2008 in A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 4 - Q2 2008
By Andrew Delaney, Editor, A-Team Insight Quarterly, A-Team Group
It’s June, so it must be Sifma. A bit early this year, so we’ll all have to go back to work afterwards, rather than taking a much needed vacation in the Hamptons. But never mind, there’s lot’s to do. How come? Well, when we read the mainstream press, our hearts fill with gloom at the prospect of another downturn. Cancelled projects. Friends out of work. No more nice lunches. It’s just no fun.
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On 04 Jun 2008 in A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 4 - Q2 2008
By Maryann Houglet, Senior Vice President, Strategic Consulting, A-Team Group
A recent study by A-Team Group and GoldenSource finds that OTC derivatives are driving a wider move among firms to look again at their data management strategies, with surpirsing results.
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By Pete Harris, President Americas and Editor-at-Large, A-Team Group
Getting computers to compute faster and use less power is hitting a sweet spot with firms looking to not only out-run their competitors, but also to cut data centre footprint and power consumption. So who offers what to the market and what should anyone wanting to make gains from hardware acceleration be on the look out for?
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By James Hartley, Vice President of Research, A-Team Group
To get the most out of smart order routing and algorithmic trading the industry needs a standard set of definitions of what these functions actually are – that way you know who knows what they are talking about.
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By Sharon Wilbraham, Contributing Editor, A-Team Group
In the face of increasing data volumes, greater regulatory demands, pressure to reduce costs and operational risk, could outsourced/managed reference data offerings prove to be the final piece in the puzzle?
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On 04 Jun 2008 in A-Team Insight Quarterly, ATIQ-Issue 4 - Q2 2008
By Maryann Houglet, Senior Vice President, Strategic Consulting, A-Team Group
Centralising databases is only the beginning in the re-evaluation of data practices that is gripping the market. Ensuring downstream applications are integrated is proving challenging, but the drive to meet the needs of ever more complex instruments will make it succeed.
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By Virginie O’Shea, Contributing Editor, A-Team Group
Given the chequered history of previous attempts to force standards convergence, are the recent plans for an ‘investment roadmap’ doomed to failure, or is interoperability the answer to the industry’s problems?
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By Dr Mark D. Spiteri, Head of Software Development, Apama Products
The trading world has now definitively moved beyond single-venue trading. Notwithstanding which asset class you specialise in, and definitely if you are pursuing cross-asset class trading, the fact of the matter is that to be competitive you need to be connected to multiple venues. Reg NMS and MIFID might have made everyone more conscious of the requirement to provide best execution, but competitive pressures would have prevailed otherwise and compelled a similar response.
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By Roger Aitkin, Contributing Editor, A-Team Group
As the development of Gulf financial centres like Dubai, Bahrain and others continues apace, opportunities for financial technology suppliers appear ripe. A-Team Insight Quarterly examines how far local exchanges and regulators have been driving the modernisation of the region’s market infrastructure.
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By Pete Harris, President Americas/Editor at Large, A-Team Group
Israel’s high tech industries, developed from its military capabilities, are making a huge impression on the world’s banking, telecoms and even pop music industries. So what is the secret of what the West dubs ‘Silicon Wadi’?
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By Angela Wilbraham, Chief Executive Officer, A-Team Group
All eyes are on New York in June for one of the industry’s biggest events on the calendar – the Sifma Technology Management Conference. The theme of this year’s event, aptly enough, is ‘Managing IT in Financial Services during the Credit Crisis’. Banks are hurting, write downs are on an unprecedented scale, but the business of financial services IT continues on its path of innovation and dynamic change.
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