Content posted in October 2011
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What the Cloud Really Means for Custodians
Cloud is increasingly becoming the basis for IT infrastructure, and that can fundamentally change the way that custodians do business, contends StatPro's CEO Andrew Peddar.
Applauding Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street movement should be commended for reminding Americans of the country's intimate history with public protest. However, the movement itself needs some refining.
Larry Tabb’s 2012 Financial Markets Forecast: Antacid — And Plenty of It
The markets are in a state of shock. And all of the new rules coming in 2012 will only make it more difficult and more expensive for all financial markets participants.
For RIAs, Successful Dodd-Frank Compliance Must Start Now
With new Dodd-Frank Act rules looming, registered investment advisers must make certain that their IT supports new regulatory compliance requirements, according to Ernst & Young’s Cynthia Doe and Daniel New.
Technology's Growing Importance to Business Provides an Opportunity
Today's economies are far more technology-intense than in 1980, and the overall technology economy is growing even as the global economy stagnates.
Pipeline’s Misuse of Client Information
As a journalist who wrote about Pipeline many times over the past 7 years, I can’t believe the firm would deceive its clients about how and where it was executing trades.
On the Pipeline Fiasco and Our Addiction to Anonymity
An industry that has lost a good deal of the public's trust now has yet one more reason not to trust its own.
Who’s Afraid of Volatility?
Todd Hurlbut of Everett Capital Management uses algorithms and dark pools to cope with volatility in equities and alternative asset classes. Find out what this buy side trader thinks of HFT.
High-Frequency Trading to Blame for Market Volatility?
As the markets continue their wild gyrations, regulators continue to struggle with high-frequency trading's role in the volatility and with how to stabilize the markets.
When Quants Open Up
A portion of the blame for the market's current volatility and the great divide of wealth in this nation can be laid at the feet of algorithmic trading.
The Quant Mystique
Why is the mystique of software code more important than the surety of security?
Where Is Your Rogue Trader Hiding?
The information and technology silos inside your firm are the perfect hiding spot for a trader about to go rogue.
Proposed Taxes on High-Frequency Trading Won't Become Law
High-frequency trading has become quite the punching bag for overseas governing bodies in recent months, but for the time being it appears that those who rely on it may escape being taxed for it.
Hedge Funds Wake Up to Transparency
The veil of secrecy has caused a problem for hedge funds and led to Dodd Frank, says an AT Summit panelist.
Building a Better Liquidity Strategy
Brokers are employing three major strategies to improve low-latency execution quality.
Enterprise Trading in The Cloud. Finally
Institutions finally can deploy enterprise-class, cloud-based trading solutions that bridge the gap between the convenience of ASP platforms and the performance of in-house trading systems.
Insider Raj Gets 'Light' 11-Year Sentence
Raj Rajaratnam, the former head of the Galleon Group hedge fund, was just hit with the longest sentence ever doled out for insider trading, but his penalty still pales in comparison to those of recent high-profile Wall Street criminals.
Volatility Derailed Quant Funds in Q3 and Clouds Their Outlook
Beneath the cacophony of screaming headlines about the European debt crisis, Occupy Wall Street and the slumping U.S. economy lays the struggles that quantitative hedge funds have recently endured.
Financiers Yawn As Occupy Wall Street Gains Momentum
The thousands of protesters who converged on New York's financial district Wednesday are a clear sign the Occupy Wall Street movement is gaining momentum, but folks within the industry are greeting the demonstrations with a collective yawn.
Occupy Wall Street Protest: Our Readers React
WS&T readers have some strong opinions on the matter of executive compensation.
Alpha Bets: Alpha or Beta, Which Are You?
The investing world is bifurcating into two camps: those generating alpha and seeking uncorrelated returns, and those focusing on beta and capturing index- based returns. Which camp you are in makes all the difference in the world.
Michael Lewis’ Boomerang Sees Frightening Future for Global Finance
Lewis’ latest effort picks up where the global financial crisis of 2008 left off, with indebted governments facing their own days of reckoning after years of irresponsible borrowing and spending.
Occupy Wall Street Gains Steam Without Clear Agenda
Although it remains unclear what the protesters are looking to gain from all of this, at the heart of the movement lays the widening gap between rich and poor, and the persistent joblessness that has played out since the crash of the global markets in 2008.
Occupy Wall Street: Do The Protesters Actually Have a Point?
The Occupy Wall Street protest, which has been going on for two weeks, is now rapidly gaining steam and publicity.
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