In Europe, cross-market competition makes technology upgrades critical to survival.
In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, approximately 10,000 equity orders and quotes will be sent to the main European equity venues. Approximately 75% of those messages, according to the Financial Times, will be high-frequency trades: short-term positions held for a period of milliseconds or, at most, seconds, and every one of them automatically generated and tracked by a computer program.
By Neil McGovern, Director of Marketing, Sybase
The UK and Europe’s determination to right the wrongs of the financial markets is understandable given the events of sub-prime mortgage collapse in 2008 and beyond. But the focus must be to ensure right-size regulation rather than out-size it. 
A-Team Insight Events combine A-Team's expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. In 2011, a quality constituency will once again gather for these focused events in London and New York City.
By Mat Newman, head of product management, Adaptiv, SunGard’s capital markets business
Recently, four US federal agencies – Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Office of Thrift Supervision – published a paper on interagency supervisory guidance on counterparty credit risk (CCR) management. The paper covers a number of wide-ranging topics from sound corporate governance for managing CCR, through to methodology choices in computing credit metrics.
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By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial Markets
The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve.
Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is MiFIR the equivalent of a piece of complicated flat pack furniture, delivered with neither build instructions, a picture of the final product, nor the correct number of screws?
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