The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry
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Big Data and Smart Trading [ Source: SAP ]
September 2012-
The convergence of big data and smart trading is leading to the rapid development of new, profitable, and often fascinating trading strategies. These strategies extract and harness information from a myriad of conventional and not-so conventional data sources, often on a massive scale. Trading organizations employing these new big data trading strategies are searching for sustained profitability over extended periods of time.
This white paper explains what these strategies are and how to ...
OTC Derivatives Reform: Linking Market Participants in the Trade Lifecycle [ Source: IPC Systems, Inc ]
July 2012- This whitepaper examines the vital role of derivatives in the capital markets, reviews the regulatory initiatives, and provides insights into the communications and connectivity landscape for the OTC derivative trade lifecycle.
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 ...
Leverage the Value Locked Up in "Big Data" [ Source: Savvis ]
April 2012-
Financial services firms are increasingly facing the challenge of "Big Data": unprecedented quantities of structured and unstructured data stored in a variety of systems and formats. Though "big" might mean different things to different firms, all companies report that more data is coming in all the time from disparate systems.
Several issues stand in the way of financial services firms making optimal use of the data they gather - e.g. regulatory requirements, ...
Sales and Service [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012-
What are the forces reshaping the financial services industry?
Customer expectations are evolving and new channels are proliferating. Credit and market risks are growing. The lines between traditional and nontraditional banks continue to blur. These and other factors are having an unprecedented impact on the industry, compelling institutions to address competitive threats, solidify customer relationships, and strengthen fraud prevention and security measures.
How has the industry responded?
Forward-looking institutions ...
Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading [ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011- There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
Bloomberg Data Feeds - Creating a Competitive Differentiator through Event-Driven Trading [ Source: Bloomberg ]
June 2011-
The emergence of global trading is driving several important trends, including the consolidation of exchanges, a realignment of industry coalitions, and the emergence of global trading standards.
Today's firms have to adapt to this new climate, while answering continuing calls for optimization and cost reduction. These changes will continue to force companies to embrace open standards and new technologies that promise to reduce system complexity and lifetime maintenance costs while allowing them to ...
Optical Networking for Capital Markets: The Bright Side of Dark Fiber [ Source: Ciena ]
August 2010-
Nowhere is low latency networking more critical than in the financial services industry, where competitive differentiation and profitability are often measured in microseconds. In recent years, financial firms have made great strides in reducing software, system and intra-network latency to speed transactions dramatically. Now, recent advancements in fiber technologies, end-point hardware and service offerings have created significant opportunity for latency reduction beyond the trading firm’s own data centers.
Read this paper to ...
The Evolving Role of The Buy-Side Trader [ Source: SunGard Financial Systems ]
April 2010- SunGard recently commissioned a study on the evolving role of the buy-side trader in today’s dynamic economic environment, identifying challenges faced by traders today as well as those that need to be anticipated tomorrow. Based on their findings, SunGard concluded that choosing the right strategic technology partner while embracing new solutions is essential to tackling these challenges. SunGard’s Valdi helps firms trade multiple asset classes and source new liquidity for growth while managing ...
Trading Beyond the Horizon [ Source: CFN Services ]
January 2010- In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies. The successful operations – whether they be the proprietary desks of traditional broker/dealers, specialist high frequency and algorithmic traders, or quantitative hedge funds – will leverage a trading infrastructure that combines high ...
Measurement and Characterization of Latency in Trading Networks [ Source: Corvil Ltd ]
July 2008- Latency during busy periods can be much larger than the values seen during the rest of the trading day. By definition, the busy periods are the times when most traders want to trade. Therefore statistics measured during these periods are key metrics for understanding performance. Simple service level targets based on daily or even monthly values are a poor guide to the conditions that traders will experience in practice. This white paper enables readers to ...
Evaluating Opportunities to Streamline Account Opening [ Source: Arius Software ]
September 2009- The recent recession and market volatility is pressuring financial services firms to improve operating processes and reduce costs. The rapid market surge and potential recovery has served a reminder that operational processes must be scalable and ready to take advantage of every opportunity. Many firms are scrutinizing their account opening process since client on-boarding is expensive, labor intensive, and error prone. As a result, improving account opening has become a high priority project with many ...
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 ...
Rising Above Risk: Sensible Continuity Solutions for Voice Trading Communications in a Challenging Market [ Source: IPC Systems, Inc ]
January 2009- Of all the technologies available to traders today, voice communications is probably the most critical during an emergency. Whether a natural disaster, terrorist threat or technology interruption, traders need to make fast decisions, cover their positions and let customers know what’s happening. Even if a firm trades electronically, voice communications becomes a critical service to support during a crisis.
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 ...
Enabling Market Data Distribution in Hardware [ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008- With the rising volume of market data, it is becoming more critical for financial service firms to maintain low-latency. Today's software-based solutions support only limited traffic, which means that firms are continuously deploying new servers that come with large costs including: capital outlay and software licensing and deployment, maintenance and datacenter resources. Financial services firms that take this approach discover that there are many challenges when deploying multiple servers as there is an inherent unpredictability ...
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