Sponsored access – and its ‘evil cousin’, so-called naked access – has received a lot of attention in recent months, as regulators scrutinise the activities of the securities industry in response to widespread public outrage: at the Credit Crunch, at the bank bailouts, at bankers’ bonuses – the list is growing every day.
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Special Report: Sponsored Trading Access
Special Report: Direct Data Feed Services
Direct exchange feeds – and real-time data feeds generated by alternative trading systems – have entered the realm of mainstream for today’s most demanding trading environments. By sidestepping the aggregation and normalisation process required for consolidated data feeds, direct feeds offer the fastest possible access to rapidly updating market prices, used by high frequency traders and other alpha seekers to drive their trading models.
Special Report: Corporate Actions USA 2010
The US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL.
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Special Report: FIX Community
The Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol began life in the early 1990s as an attempt to streamline financial transaction messaging between Salomon Brothers and Fidelity. It has since grown into the industry standard for transaction messaging between sell-side and buy-side practitioners worldwide, and is being adopted by exchanges and other execution venues as the messaging protocol for trading participants.
Special Report: Applications of Reference Data to the Middle Office
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Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and complex investment strategies, as well as rising transaction volumes. This has led many from the buy side and the sell side to consider outsourcing strategies for some of these functions, offshoring, in-house development or the acquisition of new vendor technology.
