Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development at Sybase, on Information Delivery [ Source: Sybase ]
July 2008- Managing and sustaining a continuous flow of data in a low latency environment is critical to organizations in the capital markets industry. Learn about successful strategies for delivering information to the point of use, across multiple groups, so that actual portfolio and trading decisions can be made in real time.

The Advantages of Enabling Order Execution in Hardware [ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008- In order to avoid lost opportunities and customers, sell-side firms need to guarantee the rapid delivery of trade-related messages to avoid lost and late messages through back-office order processing systems. Traditionally, firms have relied on software- and server-based systems to process trades. With the increasing volume of orders, the widespread adoption of algorithmic trading systems and the demand for lower latency, existing systems are not able to keep up with the demand. Solace Systems' hardware ...

Risk Management Systems - Flaws, Fixes and Future Plans [ Source: Sybase ]
June 2010- Virtually every risk professional agrees that today’s financial services organizations need to analyze more data in less time so they can make better trading and risk management decisions. Yet, the fact is, most firms are still processing their risk at the end of their trading day.

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New Delivery Models for Options Analytics [ Source: International Securities Exchange ]
June 2012- This whitepaper discusses and proposes a solution to the Big Data challenge faced by industry participants in the US equities options markets. Managing options trading books, running strategies and discovering alpha all require large and increasing amounts of market and historical data, reference data and analytic computations. Analytics are especially key to options trading as participants need to transform raw data into implied volatilities in order to perceive value, and sensitivity measures (i.e. "the ...

Managing Reference Data Risk -- A Best Practice Approach [ Source: Patni Computers ]
October 2010- In recent years, the twin pressures of achieving regulatory compliance and straight-through processing (STP) have highlighted substantial redundancy and duplication of effort in the area of reference data management. Many buy-side and sell-side firms are uncomfortably aware of both the time and cost they devote to purchasing, cleansing, and distributing reference data, as well as the risks that arise when these tasks are not performed effectively, among them failed trades and lost revenue opportunities. Firms ...

Manage Time, Effort, and Risk Associated with FIX Protocol Testing [ Source: HP ]
June 2009- FIX Protocol has become the industry standard for message exchange in the Financial Services Industry. However, the popularity of FIX is also associated with inherent challenges involved in testing this protocol. Complicated tag library, customized messages and constant upgrades are just a few of the challenges that testing teams have to manage. These challenges can be mitigated by bringing standardization and digitization to the testing process through the implementation of QA best practices, leading industry ...

Building Distributed Applications Integrating the Trading Value Chain via .NET Framework [ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2007- Many customers in the Securities and Capital Markets industry rely on products from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to obtain solutions for their business needs. These products usually come from different ISVs and they are based on different technologies. Very often, customers are confronted with significant post-purchase deployment and integration costs if they need various ISV products to communicate and exchange data with each other. This paper describes how Microsoft partners 4th Story, Digipede Technologies and ...

Hedge Fund Improves Risk Management and Returns with Grid Processing [ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008- When III Offshore Advisors began looking for better ways to measure the risk in their credit derivatives portfolio, they looked at everything on the market. “As a hedge fund, we had a pretty sizable budget for investing in this,” said Paul Algreen, CIO at the $4 billion fixed income firm based in Boca Raton, FL. The firm looked at high end SMP servers, Data Synapse, open-source Alchemi and other options before concluding that Digipede met its ...